General Manager

Urban Company; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Urban Company seeks a General Manager - Business to own and drive the city cluster operations, from supply chain to daily backend; lead a high-performance team and partner with product and marketing to accelerate growth.

The role requires 2–5 years of experience in high-growth startups or ecommerce environments, with a strong ownership mindset and ability to implement first-principles solutions on ground.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-growth operations-based environments.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to scale a city cluster.
• Proven ability to hire, coach and develop talent.

Responsibilities

• Own and build all aspects of UC’s business across your vertical in the city cluster you are responsible for.
• Grow the marketplace by improving service quality and on-the-job training.
• Build, coach, and lead a high-performance team with strong hiring and grooming skills.
• Collaborate with category heads, product, and marketing to drive performance.

Skills

Operations leadership

Startup experience

People management

Training & onboarding

Job description

General Manager - Business | Urban Company

Years of Experience: 2-5 years

About Urban Company

Urban Company is a technology platform offering customers a variety of services at home. Customers use our platform to book services such as beauty treatments, haircuts, massage therapy, cleaning, plumbing, carpentry, appliance repair, painting, etc., all delivered in the comfort of their home and at a time of their choosing.

Urban Company started as UrbanClap in November 2014, when its founders, Abhiraj, Raghav, and Varun, realized that the home services industry was predominantly unorganized, fragmented, and offline. Customers found it challenging to avail quality services conveniently, and service professionals were struggling to make ends meet, having to rely upon several middlemen, contractors, and local aggregators.

The founders felt that the industry was ripe for disruption, and launched Urban Company, with three key principles in mind -

• Customer love: Build a platform that offers truly delightful and differentiated services
• Partner empowerment: Build a deep, full-stack partnership with service partners, helping improve their earnings and overall livelihood
• Technology first: Bring innovation and technology to an age-old industry

What you’ll do:

• Independently own and build all aspects of UC’s business across your vertical in the city cluster you are responsible for -building the supply chain across selection, training and onboarding of professionals; daily operations; quality of service; user growth and expansion. This is an operations-heavy role; the leader is expected to be hands-on and on the ground.
• Grow the marketplace by improving the quality of service, like service availability, on-the-job quality through training, etc.
• Build, coach, and lead a high-performance team - they need to be good at hiring and grooming talent.
• Be part of key projects that improve the performance of the overall category - work with category heads, product, and marketing teams.

In a nutshell, the General Manager is expected to completely own and drive the business, the team, and make all decisions for the city cluster. This is an operationally heavy role, and we expect the leader to be strong on operational excellence and leadership skills.

What We Need:

• Experience in a high-growth operations-based Startup, Ecommerce, FMCG
• High sense of ownership and a penchant for excellence
• Extremely strong first-principles problem solvers, who have a maker/builder within them and want to bring to life consumer insights to revolutionize the service industry.

What can you expect:

• A great work environment with massive ownership and growth opportunities.
• Work closely with strong leaders who are amongst the best in the country when it comes to operational excellence and consumer obsession
• A lot of freedom and ownership to propose and change the way we do things. We still believe it is Day 0 and are hungry to improve and change
• Growth opportunities within UC via our robust internal mobility program