Manager / Senior Manager - Strategy & Program Management

Cashfree; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cashfree Payments in Bengaluru seeks a Manager/Senior Manager for Strategy & Program Management to shape growth and transform operations across the business. You will drive cross-functional programs, align strategic priorities with execution, and ensure value delivery in fast-paced fintech environments.

The role demands 6+ years in strategy/consulting or program management, with startup exposure, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to translate goals into actionable plans.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of work experience in strategy, business consulting and/or program management.

Responsibilities

• Translate business strategies into practical action plans.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional programs and transformations.
• Manage stakeholders and drive change across the organization.
• Collaborate with leadership to shape growth initiatives.
• Influence decisions with data-driven insights.
• Demonstrate entrepreneurial attitude and lead change initiatives.

Skills

Strategy development

Program management

Stakeholder management

People leadership

Change management

Analytical thinking

Education

Tier 1 institute

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Project management tools

Job description

Cashfree Payments is a leader in payments in India. Founded in 2015, Cashfree Payments processes transactions worth $80B annually for more than 800,000 businesses.

Businesses use Cashfree Payments to collect payments from 100+ payment methods, make payouts, make cross-border payments, improve conversions with a one-click checkout, recover abandoned carts, and predict and reduce returns. With an easy onboarding and integration process, and compatibility with popular merchant platforms like Shopify, Wix, Wordpress, WooCommerce, WhatsApp, Cashfree Payments enables businesses to start transactions within a day. Cashfree Payments directly connects with all payment networks and owns its payment processing technology end-to-end, ensuring higher success rates and reliability. Built for scale, it enables businesses to process an industry-leading 12,000 transactions per second, handling peak demand effortlessly.

Alongside payments, Cashfree Payments offers SecureID, an identity verification stack with a comprehensive suite of APIs and KYC components. SecureID enables fintechs and startups to streamline compliant onboarding and KYC flows by minimising user inputs, thus reducing drop-offs, intelligently verifying identity documents, and detecting fraud and anomalies with high accuracy.

Cashfree Payments is authorised by the Reserve Bank of India to operate as a payment aggregator for both domestic and cross-border payments, and was one of the first entities to be authorised. It is also authorised to issue Prepaid Instruments.

Cashfree Payments is backed by Silicon Valley investor Y Combinator, Apis Partners, Krafton, State Bank of India (SBI), and was incubated by PayPal.

Role: Manager / Senior Manager - Strategy & Program Management

Responsibilities:

• 6+ years of work experience with at least 2-4 years of strategy, business consulting and / or program management.
• 2-3 years of work experience in startups previously
• Strong Academics, Preferred Tier 1 institutes.
• Broad exposure to and hands-on experience with business transformation, program management, change management, and people leadership.
• Excellent stakeholder management and consulting skills
• High degree of flexibility and strong collaboration skills
• Proven ability to translate business strategies and goals into practical action plans
• Entrepreneurial attitude, creative and driven with a penchant to lead change
• Organized, results-oriented individual with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.