Chief Product Officer

Company Description AppKhichadi DXP is a secure, scalable infrastructure built to enable seamless data sharing across businesses, platforms, and ecosystems within India. With a privacy-first and compliance-driven approach, the platform allows organizations to exchange, enrich, and activate data in real time. It supports high-volume data flows and ensures interoperability across diverse systems. By unlocking new opportunities for analytics, personalization, and monetization, AppKhichadi DXP serves as a foundational layer for India’s rapidly evolving digital economy.

We are looking for a Chief Product Officer to own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution across our product portfolio.

This is a leadership role for someone who can combine customer understanding, business strategy, technology awareness, data, and execution discipline to build products that create measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Translate company goals into clear product priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the complete product lifecycle — discovery, validation, design, development, launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Identify customer problems, market opportunities, and new product opportunities.
• Work closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Leadership teams.
• Build strong processes around product discovery, prioritization, experimentation, and delivery.
• Define and monitor product KPIs including activation, engagement, retention, conversion, revenue, and customer satisfaction.
• Use customer research, analytics, market intelligence, and experimentation to guide product decisions.
• Balance short-term commercial requirements with long-term product strategy.
• Own product monetization, pricing, packaging, and growth opportunities.
• Drive adoption of AI, automation, data, and emerging technologies where they materially improve the product.
• Build, mentor, and scale Product Management and Product Design teams.
• Establish a strong product culture focused on customer value, speed, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with the CEO and leadership team on business strategy, fundraising narratives, partnerships, and new market opportunities.
• Continuously evaluate competitors, market trends, and changing customer behaviour.

What We Are Looking For

• 10+ years of experience across Product Management, Product Strategy, or related roles.
• Significant experience leading products at a startup, technology company, fintech, SaaS, consumer-tech, data, or digital platform business.
• Demonstrated experience taking products from concept to launch and scaling them.
• Strong understanding of product discovery, UX, technology, analytics, experimentation, and growth.
• Ability to work closely with engineering teams and understand technical trade-offs.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience making decisions using data and customer insights.
• Experience defining product metrics, OKRs, roadmaps, and prioritisation frameworks.
• Commercial understanding of pricing, monetisation, unit economics, and product-led growth.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
• Comfortable operating in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment with high ownership.

Preferred

• Experience building FinTech, MarTech, AdTech, AI/ML, data platforms, APIs, marketplaces, or consumer applications.
• Experience with AI-powered products or data-driven product experiences.
• Experience scaling products from early-stage to significant user or revenue growth.
• Experience working directly with founders and senior leadership.
• Experience managing multiple products or product lines.

Success in This RoleThe CPO will ultimately be accountable for ensuring that:

• We are solving the right customer problems.
• Product investments are aligned with business objectives.
• Product teams execute quickly and predictably.
• Users adopt, engage with, and retain the product.
• Product decisions are backed by data and customer insights.
• Our products build sustainable competitive and commercial advantage.