Role & responsibilities
- Engage and Collaborate with External Partners: Establish and maintain strong working relationships with OEMs, telecommunications operators, industry research labs, and other deep tech units to identify potential collaboration opportunities that leverage pioneering technologies.
- Synergy Identification: Analyse partner capabilities and ongoing research initiatives to uncover synergies with our R&D; goals in payments technology and co-create project concepts with high innovation and business impact potential.
- Internal Stakeholder Alignment: Work closely with product teams, engineering groups, and other internal units to understand their challenges, gather detailed problem statements, and communicate R&D; progress and opportunities effectively.
- Project Facilitation: Support the R&D; team by translating complex technical discussions into actionable project plans that balance research rigor with commercial feasibility.
- Innovation Scouting & Road mapping: Monitor emerging trends in payments tech and adjacent fields,



providing inputs to shape the teams research roadmap and prioritize initiatives that align with strategic goals.
- Technical Evangelism: Act as a bridge between deep technical experts and internal teams, driving awareness and understanding of cutting-edge innovations in the payments domain.
- Documentation & Reporting: Produce clear, concise reports and presentations summarizing collaborative insights, project statuses, and business impact potential for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred candidate profile

Technical Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in computer science, Electronics, Telecommunications, or a related engineering discipline. Advanced degrees are a plus.
- Solid understanding of payments ecosystems, including transaction processing, security protocols, and hardware/software integrations.
- Familiarity with deep tech areas such as IoT, edge computing, protocols (MQTT, EMV, etc) secure element tech

📌 Senior Associate Ecosystem Industry Partnerships (Mumbai)
🏢 National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
📍 Mumbai