Credit Saison - Product Manager - Data Platforms (5-8 yrs)

About Credit Saison India

Established in 2019, CS India is one of the country's fastest growing Non-Bank Financial Company (NBFC) lenders, with verticals in wholesale, direct lending and tech-enabled partnerships with Non-Bank Financial Companies (NBFCs) and fintechs. Its tech-enabled model coupled with underwriting capability facilitates lending at scale, meeting India's huge gap for credit, especially with underserved and under penetrated segments of the population.

Credit Saison India is committed to growing as a lender and evolving its offerings in India for the long-term for MSMEs, households, individuals and more. CS India is registered with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and has an AAA rating from CRISIL (a subsidiary of S&P Global) and CARE Ratings.

Currently, CS India has a branch network of 45 physical offices, 1.2 million active loans, an AUM of over US$1.5B and an employee base of about 1,000 people.

Credit Saison India (CS India) is part of Saison International, a global financial company with a mission to bring people, partners and technology together, creating resilient and innovative financial solutions for positive impact.

Across its business arms of lending and corporate venture capital, Saison International is committed to being a transformative partner in creating opportunities and enabling the dreams of people.

Based in Singapore, over 1,000 employees work across Saison's global operations spanning Singapore, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil.

Saison International is the international headquarters (IHQ) of Credit Saison Company Limited, founded in 1951 and one of Japan's largest lending conglomerates with over 70 years of history and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Company has evolved from a credit-card issuer to a diversified financial services provider across payments, leasing, finance, real estate and entertainment.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Be instrumental in insights generation

- Identify the requirements of the analytics products and work together with data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers in the team to ensure delivery

- Top notch end to end solutioning

- Build roadmaps on analytics products and ability to breakdown tasks to the nth level

- Experience in writing Mapping Documents for Reports and dashboards

- Own the software and analytics product portfolio that supports our team's core data platform and data analytics.

- Facilitate an effective working process for every stakeholder involved, especially for the internal data team

- Ensure the standardised quality of products delivered

- Be the bridge between Product / Data Engineering teams

Required skills & Qualifications :

- BTech and/or MBA from top-tier colleges (e.g., IITs, NITs, ISBs, IIMs, or equivalent)

- 5+ years of product management experience, with a strong focus on data platforms or data-driven products.

- Technical knowledge: basic statistics concepts and analytics/engineering frameworks

- Should be a strong facilitator and have good integration mindset

- Shows high levels of clarity of thought, communicates well

- Ability to identify, refine and lock Data requirements for creation of technical Data Stories, considering

- Data product criteria that will serve as guideline for Data Engineering efforts

- Experience with SQL, BI Tools such as Looker, Power BI, Tableau and data warehouse technologies such as Big Query, Redshift or Snowflake is desirable.

- Knowledge of data pipeline design, understanding of integration and data transformation standard methodologies

- Have top level understanding of statistics, machine learning and other concepts.

- Have worked on complex, non-routine analytical problems, applying advanced methods when needed.