Manager / Associate Director, Founder's Office

Airblack; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunity to lead innovative projects

Culture of experimentation and freedom to iterate

Work with an impressive team of professionals

Work with stellar team

Job summary

A dynamic educational startup in Gurugram is seeking a Manager / Associate Director for the Founder's Office. The role involves leading 0-to-1 initiatives and managing cross-team projects alongside the founders. Ideal candidates should have 2-7 years of consulting experience, excellent analytical skills, and a passion for startups. This opportunity comes with the chance to make a significant impact in India's education sector amidst a thriving market.

Qualifications

• 2-7 years of experience as a consultant with a top-tier firm.
• Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
• Strong team skills and ability to collaborate with senior management.

Responsibilities

• Own 0-to-1 initiatives across multiple functions.
• Build and empower teams through recruiting and coaching.
• Manage cross-team projects with the founders.
• Develop processes to drive scalability.
• Work on core company strategy and fundraising.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Team collaboration

Marketing skills

Growth strategy

Education

Tier-1 college degree

Job description

Overview

Position: Manager / Associate Director, Founder's Office

Location: Gurgaon, in-office

About Airblack

Airblack is India’s largest alternate skilling platform, helping people become microentrepreneurs and creators. Our mission is to help the next 100 million people in the workforce get access to meaningful opportunities.

We currently operate in sectors such as beauty, fashion, nutrition, digital & home businesses, impacting over 1M learners every month. Our flagship school in the beauty space is India’s #1 Beauty Academy brand, with an alumni base of over 40,000 entrepreneurs in 300+ cities in India. Our apps consistently rank in the top 10 education apps in India with 5M+ users and 40M+ minutes of learning content being consumed every month.

Airblack has raised over $11 million from marquee investors such as Elevation Capital, Info Edge Ventures, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Blume Founders Fund and Better Capital, and leading angels such as Vidit (Meesho), Kunal (CRED), Deepinder (Zomato), Harshit & Shashank (Razorpay) and so on.

Who are we looking for?

If you are a driven management consultant seeking a chance to make an exponential impact, this is the role for you. Working closely with the founders, you’ll have access to all the projects and initiatives at Airblack. From 0-to-1 marketing initiatives to building high-impact skilling products, you will experience all aspects of building and scaling a business.

Responsibilities

• Own 0-to-1 Initiatives: Be a leader and build new 0-to-1 initiatives and experiments across growth, marketing, product and operations.
• Build and empower teams: From recruiting teams to coaching them on playbooks & culture, to ensuring the right goals are set and the right KPIs are being measured - you will act as a partner to making teams successful.
• Program Management: Work closely with the founders and key leadership to manage cross-team projects, monitor progress and KPIs and drive business and P&L growth.
• Scaling Execution Playbooks: Be the strategic contributor to our most critical scaling initiatives and develop processes, metrics, and products to drive scale 10X.
• Strategic Analysis & Fundraising: Work with the founders on core company strategy & fundraising initiatives.

Qualifications

• 2-7 years of experience as a consultant with a top-tier firm, preferably with marketing / product / growth skillset [2-4 years for Manager, 4-7 years for Associate Director]
• Tier-1 college is a strong preference but not a filtering criterion
• Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving skills; passionate about startups and the tech ecosystem
• Strong team skills and the ability to collaborate with senior management

Benefits

• Skilling with a difference: We are one of the very few education companies in India that have been able to do all the following things together: deliver outcomes, stay lean (under 50 people), raise funds in a down market from top investors, have an infinite runway, and lead a completely new whitespace. Get the opportunity to be the face of a new era in the education & skilling sector in a high-skin-in-the-game leadership role
• Experimentation & Build: We have a culture of rapid experimentation, freedom to fail & iterate, and owning scale-up through process building
• Thriving Market Opportunity: We are building in a whitespace with massive opportunity & headstart - India has 15 million people entering the workforce every year and less than half a million jobs. Your impact will help create a dent in India’s future
• Work with a stellar team: Great missions require great people - and we are fortunate to have some of the smartest and nicest people supporting us in our journey. Our team comprises ex-entrepreneurs, VCs, and operators from places such as Goldman Sachs, Paytm, Oyo, Bain & Co., BCG, Urban Company, top IITs and so on