Associate Director – Custom Products
Gurugram / Mumbai
Payment – Payments India - Sales /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Job Title: Associate Director – Custom Products
Location: Mumbai / Gurgaon
Experience: 12+ Years
Key Job Responsibilities
- Requirement Gathering & Planning
- Proactively engage with business teams on leads and opportunities for custom software development and special projects
- Define and create the product and solutions basis customer requirements.
- Owner of all custom software sales, solution and development activities
- Drive solution implementation, post-production adoption and solution sell ability to other similar merchants.
- Own the roadmap for the product around Customer customization requirements, Customer implementations, Product & feature backlog, Parity, or superiority with competition
- Ensure that the requirements specifications are defined and delivered unambiguously for the tsd engineering teams to develop and deliver the software.
- Formulating product strategy factoring industry trends, market, and competition
- Productize solutions, replicable across customers and industries, create solution offerings
- Deliver revenue targets for Custom Software Solutions and Delivery team
- Development
- Functionally translate and map the business domain to a technological solution domain
- Collaborate with tsd delivery team leaders to arrive at the detailed solutions, efforts, and implementation plans
- Define and manage the delivery timelines and scope
- Collaboration
- Evangelize and communicate the implementation plan to all stakeholders including customer
- Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success to understand and eliminate obstacles to adoption and usage
- Work with Marketing to bring new features to life on various communication touch points.
- Risk identification
- Highlight and mitigate any long-term risks that may originate as a consequence of design or architectural choice made in the overall system design leading to an incomplete solution mapping and propose enhancements
- SLA & Governance
- Identify and fix root causes around technical errors
- Ensure that SLAs committed to customers are upheld and any lapses are identified within permissible time frame
- Scope of Impact / Influence
- Lead and deliver medium to large customization projects, solving customer business problems. Drive profitability and generate revenue from TSD function
- Collaborate with Sales, Product and Engineering to deliver best payment software solutions
- Minimum Qualifications
- 12+ years of overall technology industry experience in Software Solutions, Product Management, Business Analysis, Software Development for a payment solution provider, medium to large-scale organizations or start-ups
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, or related experience required
- Should have managed medium to large teams, as solution architect manager
- Technical Experience
- Should have experience working as a Solution Architect
- Hand-on experience in programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript and NodeJS
- Database: MS SQL, MySQL, MONGODB, Graph Database etc.
- Integrations: SAOP and RESTful API
- Understanding of Payment services, architecture and integrations
- Experience with tools such as JIRA
- High performing Behaviors
- Customer Focused – Does what is right for the customer
- Be a change agent and willing to challenge status quo while helping to drive the necessary changes
- Ability to influence management matrix to achieve outcomes without direct responsibility
- Adaptability, Collaboration & Teamwork, Continuous Improvement and Tenacity