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Senior Lead UPI Product Development

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)

Senior Lead UPI Product Development

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2 months ago

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Contract type:

Permanent

Salary:

₹3,000,000 – ₹4,000,000 / year

Location:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Work mode:

Onsite

Published on:

13 August 2026

What they need


Role & responsibilities

The opportunity

NPCI is looking for a senior product leader to drive innovation,
platform evolution, and next-generation capability development
across the UPI ecosystem.
This role will be responsible for defining and executing the
innovation roadmap for UPI, enabling continuous platform
evolution to meet emerging ecosystem needs, scale requirements,
and future payment use cases. The incumbent will lead product
discovery, ecosystem experimentation, platform architecture
direction, and AI-enabled product acceleration to ensure UPI
remains at the forefront of digital payment innovation.
The role requires strong product leadership, platform thinking,
technology depth, ecosystem understanding, and execution
excellence. The candidate will work closely with engineering,
ecosystem participants, business stakeholders, and industry
leadership to drive scalable product innovation and operational
readiness.
This position also demands strong adoption thinking, platform
governance, AI-enabled product development capabilities, and
executive stakeholder management.

Key Skills & Experience Required

  • 12+ years of relevant experience in product management,
    platform leadership, payments innovation, fintech, or digital
    ecosystem product strategy

  • Proven experience in leading large-scale platform product
    initiatives and ecosystem-facing product innovation
    programs

  • Strong product discovery, roadmap strategy,
    experimentation, and execution leadership capabilities

  • Deep understanding of API product management, platform
    scalability, and ecosystem integration design

  • Strong collaboration skills across product, engineering,
    architecture, operations, and leadership teams

  • Experience operating in high-scale, high-velocity, mission-
    critical digital platform environments

    • Excellent stakeholder management, executive
      communication, and strategic influencing capabilities
      Demonstrated ability to mentor product teams and build
      organizational product leadership capability

    Job Responsibilities

Product Innovation Strategy & Roadmap Leadership

  • Own and drive the innovation roadmap for new UPI
    capabilities, platform enhancements, and ecosystem
    evolution initiatives.

  • Define strategic product outcomes, roadmap milestones,
    ecosystem adoption targets, and innovation success
    metrics.

  • Identify emerging opportunities across payments, digital
    commerce, platform scalability, and ecosystem enablement
    to shape future UPI capabilities.

    • Ensure alignment between innovation priorities, ecosystem
      needs, and organizational strategic objectives.

Product Discovery & Ecosystem Experimentation

  • Drive structured product discovery initiatives with banks,
    PSPs, TPAPs, merchants, fintechs, and ecosystem
    participants.
  • Lead rapid experimentation programs to validate product
    concepts, use cases, ecosystem readiness, and adoption
    potential.
  • Translate ecosystem insights, discovery outcomes, and
    experimentation learnings into build-ready product
    specifications and implementation plans.
  • Establish repeatable discovery-to-execution frameworks for
    accelerated product innovation.

Platform Architecture & API Product Strategy

  • Define and drive an API-first platform product strategy
    focused on scalability, integration simplicity,
    interoperability, and ecosystem adoption.
  • Ensure platform evolution principles around backward
    compatibility, extensibility, modularity, and scale-by-design
    architecture.
  • Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to
    align product strategy with technology platform
    capabilities.
  • Drive ecosystem-friendly integration models that reduce
    implementation friction and improve partner onboarding
    velocity.

Engineering Partnership & Performance Excellence

  • Partner closely with engineering teams to ensure platform
    readiness for scale, reliability, and performance demands.
  • Drive product decisions that improve transaction
    performance metrics including authorization success rates
    (ASR), latency, throughput, and ecosystem resilience.
  • Support surge readiness planning, performance engineering, and platform optimization initiatives tied to
    product evolution.
  • Ensure product innovation balances customer experience,
    technical feasibility, ecosystem scalability, and operational
    reliability.

Product Development Lifecycle Governance

  • Institutionalize strong Product Development Lifecycle
    (PDLC) governance across innovation initiatives.
  • Define documentation standards, launch governance
    mechanisms, review frameworks, telemetry expectations,
    and release readiness processes.
  • Establish structured post-launch learning loops, feedback
    capture mechanisms, and continuous improvement
    practices.
  • Drive execution discipline across the product lifecycle from
    concept to launch and optimization.

Leadership & Ecosystem Representation

  • Represent the UPI innovation roadmap in executive
    leadership discussions, industry forums, ecosystem
    engagements, and strategic governance platforms.
  • Influence ecosystem stakeholders and internal leadership
    on future product direction and innovation priorities.
  • Mentor Product Leads and strengthen second-line product
    leadership capability within the organization.
  • Build a culture of innovation, experimentation, product
    excellence, and technology-led problem solving.

Required Technical Skills

  • Strong expertise in digital payments platforms, UPI
    ecosystem architecture, and API-driven platform models
  • Deep understanding of product management frameworks,
    platform product strategy, and innovation lifecycle
    execution
  • Strong familiarity with scalable distributed systems,
    performance engineering considerations, and platform
    reliability concepts
  • Knowledge of transaction processing systems, payment
    workflows, integration ecosystems, and interoperability
    frameworks
  • Understanding of telemetry, observability, product

analytics, experimentation frameworks, and release
governance mechanisms

AI & Data Capabilities

AI-Enabled Product Acceleration

  • Leverage Generative AI for discovery synthesis,
    requirements drafting, specification refinement, risk
    analysis, and edge-case enumeration with appropriate
    governance controls.
  • Accelerate product review cycles using AI-assisted
    documentation and specification workflows.
  • Use AI-enabled tooling to improve product decision-making
    speed and execution efficiency.

Machine Learning-Driven Product Prioritization

  • Apply data-driven and ML-assisted prioritization
    approaches using adoption trends, platform reliability
    indicators, ecosystem integration complexity, and
    implementation cost signals.
  • Drive intelligent roadmap prioritization using measurable
    ecosystem and platform performance insights.

AI-Assisted Observability & Reliability Intelligence

  • Enable AI-assisted observability frameworks for automated
    log summarization, issue clustering, regression detection,
    and incident intelligence.
  • Collaborate with engineering and reliability teams to
    improve operational visibility through intelligent monitoring
    capabilities.

AI-Driven Experimentation & Product Validation

  • Prototype faster using AI-enabled product design
    workflows, experimentation analysis, and user journey
    simulations.
  • Reduce time-to-validation for new product ideas through
    AI-assisted experimentation and rapid iteration approaches.

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