Product Manager – Finance & Planning

Keka Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High trust and ownership

Fast-growing global environment

Autonomy in project management

Job summary

Keka Inc. is looking for a Senior Product Manager for Finance & Planning to drive the evolution of financial products. The role involves managing payroll capabilities across India, GCC, and US markets, ensuring compliance and executing on product roadmaps.

The ideal candidate will have 4-6 years of experience in B2B SaaS product management, particularly in finance or HR tech. This position offers opportunities for ownership and influence in a fast-growing global environment.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of Product Management experience in B2B SaaS, preferably in finance or HR tech.
• Strong experience in financial, payroll, or compliance-heavy workflows.
• Ability to run structured customer research and translate insights into product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer problems and convert them into product priorities.
• Define and own roadmap across Payroll, Compensation, and Budget Planning.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Design to create scalable platforms.

Skills

Product Management

Financial Data Modeling

Payroll Management

Compliance Workflows

Analytical Capabilities

Job description

Keka is India’s #1 HR-Tech platform for SMBs, mid-market, and enterprise customers, now expanding aggressively across GCC and the US. Our unified SaaS platform powers everything from Core HR to Payroll, Talent, and Employee Experience for 10,000+ customers.

As we expand globally, Finance & Planning is becoming one of our most strategic pillars—enabling accurate payroll, compensation planning, budgeting, and workforce forecasting at scale.

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Product Manager – Finance & Planning to drive the evolution of Keka’s financial products spanning:

• India / GCC / US Payroll
• Compensation & Cycle Planning
• Budgeting & Workforce Cost Planning
• Financial Data Models & Compliance Workflows
• Global Workforce Support

This is a high-ownership IC role, focused on strong execution, deep problem solving, and building reliable, scalable, and compliant financial products.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand customer problems, compliance requirements, market insights, and convert them into clear product priorities.
• Define and own a 2–3 quarter roadmap across Payroll, Compensation, and Budget Planning, ensuring alignment with business outcomes.
• Drive execution for multi-geo payroll capabilities, ensuring correctness, stability, compliance, and extensibility across India, GCC, and US markets.
• Build and enhance compensation workflows—including cycles, budgeting, approvals, and financial modeling.
• Partner with Finance, HR, and People Ops teams of customers to validate workflows and ensure correctness of financial logic.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Design to create scalable, modular, and extensible platforms for payroll and adjacent services.
• Work closely with Sales, CS, Support, and Finance to understand customer escalations, implementation bottlenecks, and recurring themes.
• Represent Finance & Planning in customer discussions—validate problems, showcase roadmap, and gather insights from enterprise customers.
• Write clear PRDs, acceptance criteria, and maintain crisp communication across sprint rituals.
• Monitor shipped features, analyze data, evaluate success metrics, and iterate based on insights.
• Drive high-quality delivery by anticipating risks, clarifying requirements early, and ensuring strong alignment across pods.

Who We're Looking For

Experience & Skills

• 4-6 years of Product Management experience in B2B SaaS, preferably in finance, HR tech, or compliance-heavy domains.
• Strong experience working in financial, payroll, compliance, HRMS, accounting, fintech, or ERP workflows—with the ability to model complex rules, edge cases, and dependencies.
• Exposure to or strong interest in Fintech, payments, financial data modeling, cost forecasting, or compliance-driven workflows.
• Experience with—or ability to quickly ramp into—Payroll, Compensation, Budgeting, Workforce Planning, or multi-geo statutory models (India / GCC / US).
• Ability to independently run structured customer research programs, segment users by behavior/needs, and translate insights into actionable product decisions.
• Strong analytical capabilities: proficiency in using data, correlation mapping, cohort analysis, adoption metrics, and churn drivers to refine priorities.
• Experience defining and delivering quarterly product OKRs with measurable customer and business impact.
• Proven ability to balance immediate customer issues with medium-term platform direction, making thoughtful trade-offs.
• Excellent communication and storytelling: able to influence pods, align stakeholders, and articulate decision frameworks clearly.
• High ownership, structured problem-solving, and comfort with ambiguity in compliance-heavy, multi-geo environments.

What Makes This Role Unique

• Own major components of Keka’s Finance & Planning charter, influencing payroll correctness, compensation cycles, budgeting rigor, and financial predictability across India, GCC, and the US.
• Drive cross-pod experiences by applying deep systems thinking—designing workflows that tie Payroll, Compensation, Core HR, Attendance, and Finance together into a unified experience.
• Shape quarterly product direction by owning OKRs, conducting research cadences, segmenting customers, and defining roadmaps tied to business outcomes (activation, retention, NPS).
• High-impact IC role with visibility across CPO, Payroll SMEs, Engineering leaders, and enterprise customers, especially as we accelerate US expansion.
• Opportunity to lead research programs, discovery rituals, A/B experiments, and cohort analyses that elevate product quality and customer outcomes.
• Ability to influence product culture—through better rituals, win–loss analysis, discovery reviews, and helping onboard/mentor newer PMs.

What Keka Offers

• High trust, ownership, and autonomy.
• Opportunity to design financial systems used across India, GCC, and the US.
• A fast-growing global environment with real customer impact.
• A culture that values clarity, problem-solving, and craftsmanship.