Head of India

The Role India is the biggest remittance market with over $130 billion a year flowing home to it, from everywhere: engineers in the Bay Area and Sydney, cabbies in Toronto, construction crews in Dubai, shopkeepers in Leicester, students in Berlin. From Punjabis, Gujaratis, Tamils, Malayalis and Telugus. From people wiring $3,000 a month to a Mumbai mortgage and people sending $80 to a village in Bihar. Your job is to win this market. You are someone who gets excited by the nuances of the Indian diaspora and how to reach each group, and who wants to own the P&L, the regulatory landscape and pricing at the same time. If you find the price sensitivity of each cohort exciting, and "why do Malayali nurses cluster in specific hospital systems, and what does that mean for acquisition?" as interesting as "what's RBI's latest remittance policy and which banks make the best partners," this is it. As the GM, you own the P&L, and set pricing. For customer growth, you decide which communities to acquire and in what order. Know the RBI's rules well enough to see the openings inside them, not just the limits. A Gujarati family in New Jersey and a Punjabi trucker in Brampton got abroad through completely different networks, and reaching them takes completely different channels. Reports to the Head of South Asia. Builds a team of FX Advisors in India and growth managers in sending markets. The face of India inside and outside the company. Total ownership. Be your own CEO WHAT YOU'LL OWN - The P&L. Volume, gross profit and CAC across every India corridor. Not influence, own. A miss is your miss. A beat is your win. - Strategy and sequencing. Which sender markets, which communities, which channels, in what order. US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia and UAE to start. Build the plan, defend it to leadership, execute it. - Pricing. India is the most rate-sensitive, most competitive remittance market in the world, up against competitors who reprice daily. Set FX and fee strategy corridor by corridor. - The regulatory and partner landscape. RBI rules, bank partnerships, payout rails. Know the terrain cold and own the local relationships. - Product. Obsess over UX and the services NRIs actually need. Closer to the customer than anyone in the company, and what you hear feeds straight into product, pricing and customer support. - The diaspora puzzle. Community partnerships, temples and gurdwaras and churches, cricket leagues, student associations, remittance-heavy employers, influencers, festivals (Diwali is a season, not a day). Get in front of each community authentically, and cheaply. - The team. Hire, coach and retain people in India and in sending markets. Small, dense, fast. WHO YOU ARE - 10 to 15 years in high-growth environments: startups, operations, consulting, finance, fintech. Has owned a number and talks about it the way owners do. - Diaspora-fluent. Real knowledge of and networks in the Indian diaspora, and real curiosity about it. Migration patterns, community structures, who sends money to whom and why. - Commercially sharp. Holds pricing, unit economics and CAC math in their head, and works the data directly. Excel or Sheets required, SQL a real plus. - A hustler with judgment. Closes a bank partnership Monday, reviews corridor margins Tuesday, shows up at a community event in Jackson Heights on Saturday. Likes all three. - A regulatory realist. Understands (or can quickly master) RBI rules and the compliance realities of moving money into India. Treats compliance as a partner, not an obstacle. - Multilingual, ideally. Fluent in English. Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam are genuine assets. Location: London or Dubai. Regular travel to India and sending markets is part of the job. W