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# Category Management- DGM/ GM at Paytm

- **Company:** Paytm
- **Location:** Noida, Uttar Pradesh
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/paytm/d8a35136-a41e-4593-ad67-a9a619de7133

## Job description

About Us :

Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm's mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.

About the Role :

We are looking for an experienced Category Lead to define, build, and scale one of our categories from the ground up This is a high-impact, entrepreneurial role that combines category ownership, product thinking, business strategy, and cross-functional execution. The ideal candidate will have experience owning large business categories, driving growth, and building customer-centric products at scale.

What You'll Do :

- Own the end-to-end strategy, growth, and P&L of the category.
- Design customer-first financing journeys where interest is charged only on the utilized amount, creating a flexible borrowing experience.
- Identify new customer segments, use cases, and growth opportunities across merchants, D2C brands, SMEs, and digital businesses.
- Drive category performance through data-led decision making, experimentation, and continuous optimization.
- Monitor portfolio performance, customer adoption, profitability, and key business metrics.
- Work closely with leadership to launch and scale new initiatives as part of Paytm's new venture.

What We're Looking For :

- 7-10 years of experience in Category Management, Product Ownership, Business Management, or General Management.
- Strong experience owning and scaling a business category or product with measurable business impact.
- Strong understanding of customer journeys, marketplace ecosystems, supply chain, logistics, merchant platforms, or financial products.
- Demonstrated ability to manage large portfolios, drive business growth, and influence cross-functional teams.
- Excellent analytical, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, zero-to-one environment.

Preferred Experience :

- Exposure to D2C ecosystems, managing large scale categories.
- Experience launching new categories or scaling products from inception to growth.

Why join us :

Work with a high-performing and passionate product, design, and engineering team. Shape the future of credit for millions of users. Build at scale in one of India's most dynamic and regulated spaces. Flexible and inclusive work environment with fast decision-making and ownership.

Compensation :

If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you with enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 25 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants - and we are committed to it. India's largest digital lending story is brewing here. It's your opportunity to be a part of the story!

## About Paytm

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paytm is India’s leading full-stack payments and financial services platform, enabling digital payments for consumers and merchants while distributing loans, insurance, and investment products.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NSE: PAYTM)
- **Headquarters**: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Vijay Shekhar Sharma

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Payments, Financial Services, Marketing Services
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers) and B2B (MSMEs, enterprises, online platforms)
- **Mission/purpose**: “To bring 500 million unserved and underserved Indians to the mainstream economy.” [paytm.com/about-us](https://paytm.com/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **Payment Services (Consumer & Merchant)**: QR code payments, Soundbox devices (with real‑time audio confirmation), All‑in‑One POS terminals, online payment gateway, UPI (including UPI Lite), and card acceptance. _Type_: Hardware + SaaS platform.
- **Financial Services Distribution**: Merchant loans, personal loans, insurance, and equity broking (via Paytm Money). _Type_: Service / marketplace.
- **Marketing Services**: Advertising, travel ticketing (bus, movies, flights), deals & gift vouchers. _Type_: Platform / marketplace.
- **Paytm Money Ltd**: Investment platform for mutual funds, stocks, NFOs. _Type_: App / brokerage.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed in provided sources (publicly traded; market cap fluctuates).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at **$758.2M** (LinkedIn, 2025); 39,368 active on‑roll employees in FY 2025. [linkedin.com/company/paytm](https://linkedin.com/company/paytm)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not listed in provided sources (historically backed by SoftBank, Ant Financial, etc. – not verifiable from search results).
- **Growth Signals**: 18.7% YoY headcount growth (+4,811 people); serves **44M+ merchants** and **300M+ consumers**; deepened penetration in tier‑2/3 cities; successfully transitioned to a Third‑Party Application Provider (TPAP) for UPI under a multi‑bank model. [paytm.com/about-us](https://paytm.com/about-us), [paytm.com annual report](https://paytm.com/document/ir/annual-reports/fy2024-25/Paytm_Annual_Report_2024---25.pdf)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full‑stack merchant payments leader** – owns the merchant relationship, aggregates all major payment instruments, negotiates rates, and provides cutting‑edge hardware (Soundbox, POS).
- **AI‑powered operations** – in‑house platforms Paytm ARMS (merchant lifecycle insights) and Periscope (fraud detection) automate onboarding, segmentation, pricing, and retention.
- **Largest fleet of Soundbox devices** on the street, creating a sticky subscription revenue stream.
- **Massive two‑sided ecosystem** (consumers + merchants) enabling high‑margin cross‑sell of loans, insurance, and marketing services.

## Strategic Focus
- **Payment‑led growth** – continue strengthening merchant payment leadership and expanding the omni‑channel platform.
- **Scale high‑margin financial services** – loan distribution, insurance, and equity broking.
- **Embed an AI‑first approach** across all products and internal processes to drive operating leverage.
- **Explore international expansion** of its technology‑led merchant payments and financial services distribution model. [paytm.com annual report](https://paytm.com/document/ir/annual-reports/fy2024-25/Paytm_Annual_Report_2024---25.pdf)

## Why Work Here
- **Benefits**: Medical insurance for self & family, wellness webinars, mental health support, maternity/paternity benefits, ESOPs, annual bonus, car lease, mobile device lease, employee discounts (Paytm Xtras), learning reimbursement, internal job mobility. [paytm.com/careers](https://paytm.com/careers)
- **Culture**: Innovation‑driven, purpose‑oriented (“simplify lives and fuel growth for millions”), with a strong emphasis on AI and technology. [paytm.com/careers](https://paytm.com/careers)
- **Work policy**: Most roles are **on‑site** (Noida, Mumbai, and other locations). [jobs.lever.co/paytm](https://jobs.lever.co/paytm)
- **Engineering culture**: Self‑driven learning, internal mobility, and the opportunity to work on products used by hundreds of millions of users.

## Sources
1. [Paytm Careers Page](https://paytm.com/careers)
2. [Paytm Job Openings (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/paytm)
3. [Paytm About Us](https://paytm.com/about-us)
4. [Paytm LinkedIn Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/paytm)
5. [Paytm Annual Report FY2024‑25 (PDF)](https://paytm.com/document/ir/annual-reports/fy2024-25/Paytm_Annual_Report_2024---25.pdf)

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