Product Manager – CRM & Platform – Mumbai
Department: Product
Location: Hybrid, Mumbai
Positions: 1
What Is This Role About?
- Job is based at the Mumbai (HQ)
- Reports to Head of Product
At compoundexpress, we're building the operating system for India's mutual fund distributors the CRM, client experience, and integration fabric behind every advisor-client interaction on the platform. This is a builder's seat: end-to-end ownership of the products that turn fragmented, manual workflows into a modern, self-serve fintech experience.
We're looking for someone who thinks like a challenger, not a custodian who walks in from outside financial-services convention and asks "why does this still work this way?" You'll own a dense, high-leverage roadmap spanning CRM, insurance, AI-led reporting, and platform infrastructure, and ship it through disciplined, phased releases that never break trust with distributors managing real client money.
Responsibilities
- Own the CRM product roadmap - client data architecture, communication workflows, data quality and anomaly resolution, task/workflow automation, and reporting
- Lead client-facing self-service capabilities, enabling clients to manage their own profiles, transactions, and reports with minimal manual intervention
- Drive third-party and partner integrations - insurance, AI-led analytics and reporting, payments, and other ecosystem partnerships that extend the platform's capabilities
- Own platform infrastructure decisions - identity and access management, subscription and billing workflows, and white-labelling for partner-branded instances
- Support strategic, cross-functional initiatives as directed by leadership
- Run release governance - phased rollouts, automation-first testing, predictable release cadence, and minimal production disruption
- Assign and track responsibilities clearly across engineering, QA, DevOps, and leadership for every module you own
- Report progress and risks to leadership in structured, concise updates
Must-Have Skills
- Engineering degree (BE, BTech, etc..) , MBA or equivalent preferred
- Mode of Working: Regular in-office collaboration with engineering, QA, and leadership; Not a remote role
- Experience of 5–7 years in product management, majority of it within fintech (not traditional BFSI/insurance companies)
- Direct, hands‑on product ownership of CRM and/or Insurance modules — has shipped features in this space, not just adjacent to it
- Functional & Tech Skills: Strong data-modeling instincts: comfortable designing for edge cases (KYC/PAN anomalies, minor accounts, family/entity relationships) without defaulting to manual workarounds
- Functional & Tech Skills: Experience owning integrations with external partners/APIs (payment gateways, SSO, data-sharing pipelines) — has coordinated a multi-party integration roadmap, not just consumed a single API
- Functional & Tech Skills: Track record of running phased, automation-first release cycles with minimal production disruption
- Functional & Tech Skills: Clear, structured written communication — able to translate messy operational requirements into a spec/PRD an engineering team can execute
- Soft Skills: Comfortable owning a wide, ambiguous, multi-module charter and sequencing it independently
- Soft Skills: Strong stakeholder management — can hold their own with engineering, QA, DevOps, and leadership at the same time
- Soft Skills: Demonstrated "outside-in" thinking: can point to a specific instance of redesigning a workflow around the end‑user rather than around internal process or legacy constraints
- Soft Skills: Resilient under a dense, fast-moving roadmap without losing attention to detail
Preferred Skills
- Exposure to wealth-tech or investment platforms (MF, PMS, AIF, stock broking)
- Familiarity with AppSmith, Keycloak, or CRM platforms used for workflow/task orchestration
- Experience with WhatsApp Business API or transactional‑messaging platforms
- Prior work on white-labelled/multi‑tenant product architecture
- Exposure to lending products (LAP/LAMF) or P2P lending platforms
- Startup or scale‑up experience where the PM function also covered light program/delivery management
This Role Is Not a Fit If You
- If you have spent your career primarily in traditional AMC/insurance/banking product teams, with no fintech (startup/scale-up) exposure
- If you are used to long, waterfall-style release cycles or heavy sign-off processes, and are not comfortable with automation‑first, phased releases
- If you operate as a "requirements gatherer" — translating stakeholder asks 1:1 without questioning the underlying workflow
- If you have no direct CRM or Insurance product ownership on your track record — pure lending or pure payments experience alone, with no CRM/insurance exposure, is not a fit for this seat