Senior Product Manager, Payments Data

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Product Manager to define and drive the merchant-facing data reporting and payments insights strategy across our Global Payment Orchestration Platform. This is a high-impact commercially critical role at the intersection of product data and payments.

You will own the full product suite for payments data through which our merchants understand optimise and grow their payments performance from dashboards and configurable reporting to developer-grade APIs and AI-powered recommendations. Your work will directly influence merchant conversion rates authorisation uplift and cost optimisation at global scale.

Based in Pune and operating across multiple time zones you will collaborate closely with stakeholders to build capabilities that are trusted actionable and differentiated. This is a rare opportunity to shape how payments intelligence is experienced by Xplor Pays merchants.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Vision

• Define and own the vision for merchant-facing data products as a core pillar of platform differentiation
• Translate merchant pain points (declines conversion reconciliation complexity) into product opportunities
• Influence roadmap based on merchant feedback and commercial impact

Payments Domain & Data Foundation

• Ensure deep integration of scheme data issuer responses and PSP/acquirer performance
• Standardize and expose complex payments data (decline codes interchange fees) in a merchant-friendly way
• Simplify reconciliation and financial reporting across all payment flows
• Ensure underlying data systems support low-latency high-accuracy reporting at scale with clear SLAs for data freshness completeness and reliability
• Drive consistency across reporting APIs and internal analytics

Merchant Reporting Insights & Performance

• Own the end-to-end reporting experience: dashboards exports scheduled reports and APIs covering the full payment lifecycle (authorization conversion subscriptions settlement reconciliation)
• Deliver actionable insights such as decline reason analysis issuer performance and routing recommendations
• Enable highly configurable self-serve reporting for enterprise merchants
• Productize key metrics (authorization rates conversion latency cost per transaction) and surface optimization levers like smart routing retries and local acquiring
• Develop benchmarking capabilities across industry merchant and regional comparisons

Data as a Revenue Driver

• Define packaging and pricing strategies for advanced data features
• Build premium capabilities including real-time analytics alerting custom reporting and data APIs
• Partner with Sales and Account Management to embed data into the commercial narrative and support enterprise deals
• Drive adoption and monetization of data products with GTM teams

Cross-Functional Leadership & Execution

• Partner with Engineering Data Finance Risk and Commercial teams across time zones
• Own KPIs spanning dashboard adoption report usage merchant retention and data-driven revenue
• Track impact on authorization uplift conversion improvement and cost savings for merchants
• Drive experimentation around insight-driven recommendations and alerting effectiveness

Qualifications :

Required

• 7 years of product management experience with at least 5 years in a payments fintech or financial data domain.
• Demonstrable experience owning and shipping merchant-facing or customer-facing analytics reporting or data products at scale.
• Strong commercial acumen you understand how payments economics work including interchange acquiring costs routing economics and scheme rules.
• Experience working with APIs as a product defining developer experience documentation and adoption strategies.
• Proven ability to translate complex high-volume data into clear intuitive product experiences.
• Track record of leading cross-functional squads from discovery to delivery in an agile environment.
• Excellent communication skills able to engage credibly with merchants engineers data scientists and C-suite stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in a global distributed organisation across multiple time zones.

Highly Desirable

• Experience with payment orchestration intelligent routing or multi-PSP environments.
• Background in BI or analytics platforms from a product or integration perspective.
• Familiarity with modern data infrastructure: event streaming data warehouses and real-time analytics pipelines.
• Experience in B2B SaaS or platform businesses serving enterprise and mid-market merchant segments.
• Exposure to global payments compliance and data residency considerations.

Additional Information :

What does it mean to work for Xplor

Our five core values guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

• Find a better way
• Do the right thing
• Say it straight
• Win together
• Own the outcome

If these values sound like you and describe people you want to work with you will thrive at Xplor. As an Xplorer you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Ready to apply

To start your application please submit your resume and we will be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word moonshot at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards (LinkedIn Naukri Indeed etc) only. Please dont send your application via email. They will not be forwarded. 

More about us 

More than 130000 businesses in 72 countries rely on Xplor to run their day and get paid processing over $47 billion in payments annually. Our connected ecosystem helps operators spend less time managing complexity and more time delivering the experiences that matter most. 

Xplor is backed by world-class investors Advent International Battery Ventures and Silver Lake. 

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To be considered for employment you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) youre applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time