Associate Manager II - City CEO (Strategy & Business Operations)

Navi; Delhi; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Navi is seeking a City CEO to lead a debt management team and own business targets across the Navi Debt Management Charter. You will drive performance, design scalable processes, and work with central teams to ensure financial and operational excellence.

This is a fast‑paced, high‑ownership role requiring the ability to execute bold strategies, run experiments, and scale successful initiatives across products such as Lending, Health Insurance, Mutual Funds, Digital Gold and UPI in a dynamic

Qualifications

• Top 0.1% in academics and work record.
• Bias toward action with a track record of delivering results.
• Willingness to take on a high‑impact execution oriented role in a fast paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Hit topline and bottom‑line targets for Navi's Debt Management in the region.
• Build scalable processes and metrics for performance tracking.
• Own the debt management P&L in the assigned region.
• Build and manage a team of debt management executives and managers.
• Collaborate with central teams such as Finance, HR, Quality, Vigilance.
• Design operations to achieve step‑jump improvements.
• Conduct experiments to validate insights and scale successful initiatives.

Skills

Academic excellence

Action bias

Ownership mindset

Job description

Currently, Navi is into Lending, Health Insurance, Mutual Funds, Gold & UPI. This position is for the function SBO (Strategy & Business Operations), which spans across all of these businesses. SBO is front end for all non-automated interactions with Navi customers and has two broad focus areas:

• Be the representative of the customers in Navi and the representative of Navi to the Customers
• Build Industry first and best ever customer-facing innovations across products - Look for big problem statements which can create long-term step-jump results (e.g. how to make cashless health claims to 90% - Industry is at 50% or how to solve fraud in debt management and claims)

SBO currently has four operating verticals with a prime focus on achieving business objectives:

• Debt Management – Focus on making our lending portfolio profitable by ensuring we get the most of money back, we have lent using data science and human behavior principles.
• Customer Experience – Understanding users' pain points and working with product and tech to better our offerings.
• Claims – Give the best ever customer experience to genuine customers and catch all fraudulent cases upfront
• Operations – Non-customer-facing operations focused on making the customer experience better while managing operations risk

SBO also has central functions to ensure constant innovation & support for operating verticals:

• Process Excellence – Create, audit, and improve people and various processes:

broadly involves auditing and doing RCAs on people and processes, and using

that to drive actions which improve the business metrics for short and long term.

• Control tower – Real-time monitoring of all critical business metrics, along with pre-empting and intervening in any issues at an early stage

About the Role

City CEO is a general management role that involves leading a team of debt management executives/managers, owning business targets, and contributing to key strategic initiatives in the debt management charter.

What We Expect From You

Performance Management:

• Responsible for hitting the topline and bottom-line targets
• Build processes and metrics that are consistent and scalable
• Own the debt management P&L of Navi in his/her region

People Management

• Build and manage a team of debt management executives and managers
• Work closely with central teams like Finance, HR, Quality, Vigilance et:

Strategic Initiatives:

• Come up with Operations design strategies for step jump improvements
• Conduct experiments to validate insights and scale successful experiments through cross-team collaboration:

Must Haves

• Consistent high achievement in academics & work (top 0.1%) with experience up-to 1 to 3 years of experience.
• Impact-driven mindset coupled with a strong bias to action
• Willingness to take on a high-impact execution oriented role as part of a fast-paced environment

About Navi

We are on a mission to make finance simple, accessible and affordable for a billion Indians. Guided by a strong customer-first approach, we are building tech-first solutions that work at scale. Our offerings include a range of financial products and services across Loans, Insurance, Mutual Funds, Digital Gold and UPI.

Founded by Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal in 2018, we are one of India’s fastest-growing financial services organisations. But we’re just getting started!

To know more about us, our work, people, culture, values etc., check out navi.com/careers.

Our Culture

At Navi, we’re a place where ambition meets opportunity and ideas turn into impact quickly. We empower people with high ownership from the start, encouraging them to solve meaningful problems and build with excellence. Teams here work in an environment that values speed, collaboration and craftsmanship, while celebrating learning, growth and shared wins along the way. Whether you’re shaping the future of fintech products or driving innovation behind the scenes, life at Navi means being part of a high-energy, talent-driven workplace where your contributions truly make a difference.

We’re guided by our own operating system - The Navi OS - a set of principles that shape how we work and win together. You can explore them at navi.com/careers/values-at-navi to see what drives us every day.

If this feels like you, Navi is the place to grow, thrive and make a real impact.