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Chennai - Cross Border, India
Onsite
Lead Product Manager – Bank Connectivity Delivery
Location: Chennai, India | Type: Full-Time
About the Role
The Lead Product Manager drives the delivery and strategic execution of bank connectivity initiatives across global payment rails. This role combines hands-on product leadership with people management, mentoring a small team of product managers while actively partnering with engineering and delivery teams. The role works closely with global technical teams to deliver SWIFT and API-based integrations to partner banks across the full payment lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities –
Product Strategy Delivery (65–70%)
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Lead delivery of cross-border, regional, and domestic rail integrations via API, SWIFT, and host-to-host connectivity.
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Translate bank specifications into detailed product and engineering requirements and delivery plans.
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Drive integration testing, certification, and production go-live processes.
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Manage post-integration lifecycle ensuring reliability and operational stability.
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Define and monitor integration success metrics including reliability, reconciliation accuracy, SLA adherence, and operational efficiency.
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Develop reusable integration patterns to accelerate future bank onboarding.
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Collaborate with engineering squads across multiple geographies during design, build, and sprint planning.
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Ensure integrations meet resilience, observability, and operational readiness standards.
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Ensure complete lifecycle coverage including acknowledgements, status reporting, returns, and reconciliation.
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Design and validate exception handling and operational edge cases across distributed payment systems.
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Design integrations with strong principles of idempotency, auditability, and operational observability.
Team Leadership & Product Development (30–35%)
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Lead and mentor a small team of Senior Product Managers and/or Junior Product Managers.
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Provide guidance on product discovery, stakeholder management, and delivery execution.
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Establish strong product management practices including roadmap planning, prioritization, and documentation.
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Support team members in managing bank integrations and cross‑functional collaboration.
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Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement within the product team.
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Partner with senior leadership to align team priorities with strategic product goals.
What We’re Looking For
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6–8+ years of experience in payments product management or platform delivery.
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Experience mentoring or leading product managers or cross‑functional teams.
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Experience delivering API-based bank integrations.
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Strong knowledge of SWIFT and ISO20022 messaging standards.
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Working knowledge of global and regional payment schemes, such as ACH, FedNow, SEPA Credit Transfer, SEPA Instant, SEPA Direct Debit, and familiarity with additional domestic clearing systems and local payment rails.
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Experience working with cross-border and domestic payment rails.
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Strong collaboration with Engineering, Compliance, Risk, and Operations teams.
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Experience with product and engineering tools such as Jira and Confluence.
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Ability to coordinate work across globally distributed teams.
Additional Qualities We Value:
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Strong systems thinking and ability to reason about distributed payment workflows.
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Experience defining outcome-based metrics such as integration SLA performance and exception rates.
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Ability to influence stakeholders and challenge assumptions constructively.
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Comfortable operating in ambiguity while maintaining execution discipline.
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Ownership mindset with the ability to drive product decisions and delivery outcomes.
About Corpay
Corpay is a global technology organization that is leading the future of commercial payments with a culture of innovation that drives us to constantly create new and better ways to pay. Our specialized payment solutions help businesses control, simplify, and secure payment for fuel, general payables, toll and lodging expenses. Millions of people in over 80 countries around the world use our solutions for their payments.
At Corpay, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace where employees are valued for their diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion strengthen our teams, drive innovation, and support our continued success globally.
As part of our hiring process, offers of employment may be subject to the successful completion of pre-employment screening conducted by an authorized third-party provider, in accordance with applicable laws and Corpay policies. Screening requirements may include employment references, identity verification, criminal record checks, financial or sanctions screening, and other background checks relevant to the role and permitted by local law.
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Learn more about Corpay: https://www.corpay.com
Transparency & Compliance
Equal Opportunity Employer
Corpay is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Corpay is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where individuals are respected and valued for their diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions. If you require reasonable accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hiring
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Pay Philosophy
Corpay is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices. Compensation decisions are based on objective, job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and market benchmarks. Where required by applicable law, salary or compensation ranges will be included in the job posting or provided prior to the interview process, where required by applicable law. Additional compensation elements such as bonuses, incentives, benefits, or variable pay may apply where applicable.