NPCI is seeking a senior product leader to drive innovation, AI-enabled product acceleration, and next-generation platform capabilities across the UPI ecosystem. The role will define and execute UPI's innovation, roadmap, leveraging AI, product discovery, ecosystem experimentation, and platform evolution to address emerging payment needs, enhance user experiences, and enable future-scale growth.
The incumbent will partner with engineering, ecosystem participants, business stakeholders, and industry leaders to deliver scalable, intelligent, and future-ready products. Success in this role requires robust product leadership, deep technology and platform expertise, AI-first product thinking, ecosystem understanding, execution excellence, platform governance, adoption strategy, and executive stakeholder management.
Product Innovation Strategy & Roadmap
Drive the UPI innovation roadmap, defining future capabilities, platform evolution, adoption goals, and success metrics.
Identify opportunities across payments, digital commerce, scalability,



and emerging technologies to shape future-ready solutions.
Product Discovery, AI Innovation & Experimentation
Lead ecosystem-wide product discovery, AI-enabled innovation, and rapid experimentation with banks, PSPs, TPAPs, merchants, and fintechs.
Translate insights into scalable product requirements, roadmaps, and execution plans.
Platform Strategy & Engineering Partnership
Define API-first platform strategies focused on scalability, interoperability, extensibility, and seamless ecosystem adoption.
Partner with engineering teams to deliver high-performing, resilient, and scalable platform capabilities while improving key metrics such as ASR, latency, and throughput.
Product Governance & Execution
Establish strong PDLC governance, launch readiness, telemetry, and continuous improvement frameworks.
Drive disciplined execution from concept through launch and optimization.
Leadership & Ecosystem Influence
Represent UPI innovation and AI-

📌 Deputy Incharge UPI Build (India)
🏢 National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
📍 India