About us
Cashfree Payments is a leader in payments in India. Founded in 2015, Cashfree Payments processes transactions worth $80B annually for more than 800,000 businesses
.Businesses use Cashfree Payments to collect payments from 100+ payment methods, make payouts, make cross-border payments, improve conversions with a one-click checkout, recover abandoned carts, and predict and reduce returns. With an easy onboarding and integration process, and compatibility with popular merchant platforms like Shopify, Wix, Wordpress, WooCommerce, WhatsApp, Cashfree Payments enables businesses to start transactions within a day. Cashfree Payments directly connects with all payment networks and owns its payment processing technology end-to-end, ensuring higher success rates and reliability. Built for scale, it enables businesses to process an industry-leading 12,000 transactions per second, handling peak demand effortlessly
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Alongside payments, Cashfree Payments offers SecureID, an identity verification stack with a comprehensive suite of APIs and KYC components. SecureID enables fintechs and startups to streamline compliant onboarding and KYC flows by minimising user inputs, thus reducing drop-offs, intelligently verifying identity documents, and detecting fraud and anomalies with high accuracy.
Cashfree Payments is authorised by the Reserve Bank of India to operate as a payment aggregator for both domestic and cross-border payments, and was one of the first entities to be authorised. It is also authorised to issue Prepaid Instrumen
ts.Cashfree Payments is backed by Silicon Valley investor Y Combinator, Apis Partners, Krafton, State Bank of India (SBI), and was incubated by PayPal.
What You Will Do:
- Central Government Engagement: Actively engage with key Central Ministries and regulatory bodies including MeitY, DPIIT, MHA, RBI, and NPCI to represent and advance Cashfree Payments policy interests, regulatory positions, and business priorities.
- Policy & Regulatory Intelligence: Track, analyse, and interpret evolving regulatory developments, policy consultations, and legislative changes in the fintech, payments, and digital economy space — providing timely internal briefings and impact assessments to senior leadership.
- Regulatory Submissions & Policy Drafting: Lead the preparation of high-quality regulatory submissions, consultation responses, policy white papers, and position papers on behalf of Cashfree, articulating the company's stance on issues such as PA-CB regulations, AML/KYC frameworks, data localisation, and digital payments policy.
- Stakeholder Relationship Management: Build and maintain trusted, long-term professional relationships with IAS/IPS officers, Ministry officials, regulatory staff, and inter-ministerial committee members, ensuring Cashfree has a credible and respected presence in policy circles.
- Industry Association Participation: Represent Cashfree at industry forums, contributing to working groups, industry coalitions, and joint regulatory representations on matters affecting the fintech ecosystem.
- Cross-functional Policy Translation: Work closely with Cashfree's Legal, Compliance, Product, and Business teams to translate regulatory requirements and policy shifts into actionable internal guidance and conversely, translate business needs into coherent policy advocacy narratives.
- Government Scheme & Programme Engagement: Identify and pursue opportunities for Cashfree's participation in government-led digital payment initiatives, pilot programmes, and public-private partnerships, including those driven by MeitY, DPIIT's Startup India, and RBI's regulatory sandbox framework.
- Written Communication & Thought Leadership: Produce well-researched, clearly written policy notes, op-eds, briefing documents, and parliamentary/committee submissions that establish Cashfree as a credible thought leader in India's payments policy discourse
- Prior Experience Requirement: Demonstrated experience of 3–6 years in government affairs, public policy, or regulatory affairs roles, preferably within a fintech, banking, telecom, or technology company, with direct prior exposure to engaging MeitY, MHA, DPIIT, RBI, or equivalent Central Government bodies. Prior experience in a Ministry, regulatory body, or a public policy consulting firm will be an added advantage.
