Product Manager : Data Platform

PhonePe is hiring a Product Manager : Data Platform in Bangalore.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, specs, and roadmaps for data platform components, APIs, and developer tools

• Synthesize requirements from business/product teams and translate them into system APIs, developer interfaces, and platform capabilities

• Work with architects and engineering leads to balance reliability, performance, technical debt, and new features

• Design solutions for data quality, governance, cataloging, and pipeline efficiency at petabyte scale

• Define and track platform health metrics: latency, query performance, uptime, adoption, resource efficiency

Requirements

• Product Management Experience

• 1-3 year as PM/APM with product ownership, OR

• 2-3 years as Data/Backend Engineer with PM work (PRDs, roadmaps, user research)

• Technical Stack Depth

• Deep understanding: ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing, data lakes/lakehouses

• Advanced SQL (query optimization, not just SELECT statements)

• Hands-on with ONE of: Hive/Spark/Hadoop/HDFS, Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery, or Airflow/DBT/Kafka/Trino

• Understands how data systems work end-to-end (not just BI layer)

• Problem-First Thinking

• Asks clarifying questions before solutions (WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHY, HOW)

• Articulates problems → solutions → outcomes (not feature lists)

• Synthesizes requirements from diverse stakeholders into clear product specs

• Structured Approach

• Breaks down ambiguous problems systematically

• States assumptions explicitly and validates them

• Thinks in MVP phases and iterations

About PhonePe

Headquartered in India, its flagship product, the PhonePe digital payments app, was launched in Aug 2016. As of April 2025, PhonePe has over 60 Crore (600 Million) registered users and a digital payments acceptance network spread across over 4 Crore (40+ million) merchants. PhonePe also processes over 33 Crore (330+ Million) transactions daily with an Annualized Total Payment Value (TPV) of over INR 150 lakh crore. PhonePe’s portfolio of businesses includes the distribution of financial products