Director of Product – Retail Investing Platform

Job Description

About Bhavin

Bhavin Turakhia is a serial entrepreneur and has founded multiple successful companies. His companies are unique in several ways - (1) all bootstrapped and self-funded (2) with an intense Focus on profitability (3) delivering High ROCE (4) serving Global Markets (6) in Enduring Categories (7) with Majority stake still owned by Bhavin.

About Bhavins Businesses

Zeta is a Next-Gen Banking Tech company that empowers banks and fintechs to launch banking products for the future. Its flagship processing platform - Zeta Tachyon - is the industrys first modern, cloud-native, and fully API-enabled stack that brings together issuance, processing, lending, core banking, fraud & risk, and many more capabilities as a single-vendor stack. Zeta is actively working with the largest Banks and Fintechs in multiple global markets transforming customer experience for multi-million card portfolios. Zeta has over 1700+ employees - with over 70% roles in R&D - across locations in the US, EMEA, and Asia. Zeta has raised $400 million at a $2 billion valuation from Softbank, UHG, Mastercard, and other investors.

Titan is the first customer-centric email suite created specifically for professionals and small business owners, with features designed to enable deeper, more meaningful relationships with customers. Available through leading web hosts, site builders, and domain registrars, Titan provides dynamic tools needed to effectively build customer relationships over email. In 2021, Titan received a $30M investment from WordPress, valuing Titan at $300M.

Radix is one of the world&aposs largest domain registries; and the owner of the most premium Top Level Domain extensions including .store, .inline, .tech, .online, .website, .site, .space etc. Radix is profitable, lean and was valued at over $900 million.

(Note: The above is not a complete list)

About the CEO Office

The CEO Office is responsible for working closely with Bhavin for 0 to 1 motions of complete Products and Businesses. We incubate and kick-off new products and entire new businesses every year. Bhavins Office comprises Product and Engineering leadership that takes one of the ideas from concept to PMF and PCF (described below) -

- Product Market Fit (PMF) - The Product solves an actual Problem for a specific Persona 2-3x better than any existing solutions for the Problem.
- Product Channel Fit (PCF) - The Product can get Customers at scale through at least one traction channel at a CAC less than LTV

About the Role

We are building a next-generation retail investing platform that empowers everyday consumers to invest in stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds with transparency, simplicity, and trust. As Director of Product, you will own the product strategy, roadmap, and execution across our investing experiences. You will work closely with engineering, design, compliance, data, and operations to deliver products that meet customer needs, scale with growth, and comply with regulatory standards.

Job Location: Bangalore, India (100% on-site)

Responsibilities

- Strategy
- Define the product vision and strategy for retail investing (stocks, ETFs, mutual funds).

- Product Management
- Lead cross-functional teams to design, build, and launch best-in-class investing experiences.
- Prioritize features and trade-offs to maximize impact, speed, and compliance.
- Ensure successful end-to-end delivery from MVP through scale.
- Optimize team efficiency and output.

- Partner Management
- Own relationships with external partners including custodians, clearing firms, data providers, and technology vendors.
- Negotiate and structure product partnerships that expand capabilities and accelerate execution.
- Ensure smooth integration and ongoing management of third-party services critical to the investing platform.

- Compliance
- Collaborate with legal, compliance, and risk teams to ensure all product initiatives meet FINRA/SEC and other applicable regulations.
- Anticipate potential regulatory or operational risks and build proactive safeguards.

- Growth Hacking
- Measure Output metrics (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Engagement) and Input metrics (Conversion Funnels, Engagement) that matter
- Leverage Product Analytics Platforms (Mixpanel, Amplitude etc), Data Analytics Platforms (Metabase, Superset)

- UX
- Drive the creation of delightful, intuitive and engaging user interfaces in collaboration with UX designers to drive user adoption and NPS

Requirements

1. 10+ years in Product Management, at least 4 of which are spent in building and scaling consumer investing, or brokerage products
2. Strong understanding of capital markets, trading infrastructure, clearing/settlement, and brokerage operations.
3. Familiarity with relevant regulatory frameworks and their product implications.
4. Excellent strategic insight on conceptualizing and prioritizing ideas.
5. In depth understanding and knowledge of Statistics, Analytics, Business Intelligence, SQL, Product Analytics platforms
6. Ability to interpret complex data sets and derive actionable insights.
7. Meticulous in program management processes.

PLEASE NOTE: While the job appears to be with Zeta, this role would be for Bhavin Turakhia&aposs new fintech startup in stealth mode.

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