Management Trainee - NPD

Deconstruct; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 420,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Deconstruct invites a Management Trainee to join the Founder's Office and shape innovation and product strategy. You will explore opportunities in consumer data, test with research, build business cases, and drive priority initiatives across Brand, R&D, NPD, Supply Chain, Finance and Regulatory teams.

This strategy-and-execution role involves close collaboration with the founders to define the roadmap, track progress, and ship high-impact projects.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or postgraduate degree from a Tier 1/2 institute in business, commerce or technology.
• Strong problem solving and analytical abilities with a bias for action.
• Comfortable with data, research, and turning insights into actions.
• Experience with consumer research and cross-functional collaboration a plus.

Responsibilities

• Innovation & product strategy: identify white spaces and inputs for the roadmap.
• Consumer research: plan and run surveys, interviews, and social listening; derive insights.
• Data analysis: analyze sales, marketplace, search-trend and competitor data.
• Market intelligence: track D2C beauty landscape and global trends; flag key implications.
• Project management: drive founder-priority initiatives end-to-end; coordinate teams.
• Founder-ready communication: prepare decks and memos for decision-making.
• Support special projects from the Founder's Office as priorities evolve.

Skills

First-principles thinking

Problem solving

Data analysis

Consumer research

Project management

Ownership

Bias for action

Cross-functional collaboration

Category curiosity

Education

Bachelor/Masters in business or tech

Tools

Excel

SQL

BI tools

Job description

Job description: Management Trainee – Founder's Office (Innovation & Product Strategy)

Company: Deconstruct (Baypure Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd.)

Department: Founder's Office

Experience: 0–2 years (relevant internships count)

Role overview

We are looking for a Management Trainee to join the Founder's Office and work on innovation and product strategy. You will help answer what Deconstruct should build next and why: finding opportunities in consumer and market data, testing them with research, building the business case, and driving priority initiatives across teams until they ship.

This is a strategy and execution role. You will work closely with the founders and with Brand, R&D, NPD, Supply Chain, Finance and Regulatory teams.

Key responsibilities

• Innovation & product strategy: Identify white spaces across categories, formats, price points and channels. Turn them into clear product opportunities and inputs for the product roadmap.
• Consumer research: Plan and run consumer research: surveys, interviews, review mining on marketplaces, and social listening. Convert findings into sharp, usable insights.
• Data analysis & insighting: Analyse sales, marketplace, search-trend and competitor data..
• Market & competitor intelligence: Track the D2C beauty landscape, global trends and competitor launches. Flag what matters and what it means for Deconstruct.
• Project management: Own founder-priority initiatives end to end. Set timelines, align cross-functional teams, track progress and remove blockers until decisions are made and projects go live.
• Founder-ready communication: Prepare crisp decks, memos and review notes that help the founders make decisions.
• Special projects: Take on other strategic projects from the Founder's Office as priorities evolve.

Qualifications & skills

Education

• Undergraduate or postgraduate degree from a Tier 1 or Tier 2 institute in business, commerce or technology (e.g. MBA/PGDM, BBA, B.Com, B.Tech/BE).

Core skills

• First-principles thinking (non-negotiable): Breaks problems down to their fundamentals, questions assumptions, and builds answers from the ground up rather than copying what was done before.
• Problem solving: Structures ambiguous problems, finds root causes and lands on practical solutions.
• Basic data analysis & insighting: Comfortable with Excel/Google Sheets; can move from numbers to a clear 'so what'. SQL or BI tools are a plus.
• Consumer research: Can design and run research and read consumer signals with judgement and discretion.
• Project management: Plans work, manages timelines and keeps multiple stakeholders moving.
• High ownership: Treats outcomes as their own and follows through without being chased.
• Bias for action: Moves fast, tests quickly and prefers progress over perfect plans.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Works well with cross-functional teams and is able to collaborate with and influencer stakeholders across the org through clarity and trust.
• Interest in the category: Genuine curiosity about skincare, beauty and D2C consumer brands.