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Job Description

Mobikwik is India's leading Digital Financial Services platform & Largest Digital Wallet, trusted by over 167 million users & 4.4 million businesses. As a pioneer in the Fintech space, Mobikwik empowers its users with a robust suite of services, including Digital payments, Credit & Investments. Recently, Mobikwik achieved a significant milestone with its Initial Public Offering (IPO), marking a new chapter in its journey of innovation & growth. With a mission to democratize financial inclusion, Mobikwik continues to transform how Indians manage their money, offering secure, seamless & user-friendly solutions that cater to a diverse range of financial needs.

Job Title: Associate Vice President Data

Location: Gurgaon

About the Role :

Mobikwik is seeking a senior leader to join as AVP Data (Data Analytics & Data Science). The role involves ownership of both Data Analytics and Data Science functions in the Central Team, with a span of approximately 20+ people. The person in this role will enable Payments, Lending, and Wealth verticals to make datadriven decisions, build predictive and selfimproving models, and drive AI capability building across the organization.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead and manage a team of data analysts, data scientists, ML engineers, and BI specialists (20+ members).
- Define and execute analytics strategy to support business verticals: Payments, Lending, Wealth.
- Develop and deploy predictive algorithms and models for credit risk, fraud detection, customer lifetime value, propensity, churn, personalization, pricing, etc.
- Implement frameworks for continuous learning / model retraining using live/trainable datasets, feedback loops, and model monitoring.
- Oversee data pipelines, feature engineering, data ingestion, storage, processing and ensure data quality, governance, security, and privacy compliance.
- Collaborate closely with vertical heads (Payments, Lending, Wealth) and senior leadership to translate business problems into data/AI solutions.
- Build internal AI/ML capabilities: MLOps infrastructure, model versioning, drift detection, experimentation, realtime inference where required.
- Lead innovation in AI use cases (e.g. smart assistants, GenAI applications, recommender systems, anomaly detection) to improve user experience and operational efficiency.
- Provide insights and reporting to drive key business metrics: growth, margins, risk, retention, monetization.

Required Qualifications:

- 1418 years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, Analytics, with at least 5+ years in leadership roles.
- Strong domain experience in fintech or financial services, especially in Payments, Lending, Wealth or related risk modelling.
- Exposure with ML frameworks and libraries (Python, TensorFlow / PyTorch / scikitlearn etc.), SQL, and big data tools/platforms (Spark / Hadoop / cloud data services).
- Experience in deploying models in production, monitoring their performance, addressing model drift, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Experience in setting up MLOps / AI infrastructure, model versioning, feature stores, experiments / A/B testing frameworks.
- Strong analytical thinking, problemsolving skills, ability to work with ambiguous requirements and deliver results under deadlines.
- Ability to work with senior leadership, influence crossfunctional teams.

Why Mobikwik

- Work with a fast-paced and innovative team in one of India's leading fintech companies.
- Be a part of a company that is transforming digital payments and financial services.