Manager - Strategy & Operations

InMobi; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

InMobi, a global technology leader, is hiring for the Central Strategy team in Bangalore. This role reports to the Strategy Lead and works directly with senior stakeholders, including the Founder and CEO, to shape group-wide strategy and partnerships.

You’ll operate with CEO sponsorship and oversee PMO-style execution across multiple business units. You’ll need 3–5 years of experience with senior stakeholders, and a background in Management Consulting or Corporate Strategy.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience with a minimum of 2 years working directly with senior stakeholders.
• Experience in Management Consulting (MBB) or Corporate Strategy, Chief-of-Staff roles, Product Management or running your own company would be preferred.
• Exceptional analytical and structured-thinking skills with the ability to ramp on complex areas quickly.
• Creative, entrepreneurial builder’s instinct with a strong bias for action and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Develop executive-ready strategy for new opportunity areas and frame the problem.
• Land bets internally with leadership buy-in and resource commitments.
• Stand up pilots as PMO and sometimes as direct owner responsible for execution.
• Support CEO’s office planning rhythm and set metrics across businesses.
• Design structures and governance to balance long-term direction with short-term focus.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Structured thinking

Storytelling

Communication

Stakeholder management

Entrepreneurial mindset

Bias for action

Job description

InMobi Advertisingis a global technology leader helping marketers win the moments that matter. Our advertising platform reaches over 2 billion people across 150+ countries and turns real-time context into business outcomes, delivering results grounded in privacy-first principles. Trusted by 30,000+ brands and leading publishers, InMobi is where intelligence, creativity, and accountability converge. By combining lock screens, apps, TVs, and the open web with AI and machine learning, we deliver receptive attention, precise personalization, and measurable impact.

Through Glance AI,we are shaping AI Commerce, reimagining the future of e-commerce with inspiration-led discovery and shopping. Designed to seamlessly integrate into everyday consumer technology, Glance AI transforms every screen into a gateway for instant, personal, and joyful discovery. Spanning diverse categories such as fashion, beauty, travel, accessories, home décor, pets, and beyond, Glance AI delivers deeply personalized shopping experiences.With rich first-party data and unparalleled consumer access, it harnesses InMobi’s global scale, insights, and targeting capabilities to create high impact, performance driven shopping journeys for brands worldwide.

Recognized as a Great Place to Work, and by MIT Technology Review, Fast Company’s Top 10 Innovators, and more, InMobi is a workplace where bold ideas create global impact. Backed by investors including SoftBank, Kleiner Perkins, and Sherpalo Ventures, InMobi has offices across San Mateo, New York, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Jakarta, Bengaluru and beyond.

AtInMobi Advertising, you’ll have the opportunity to shape how billions of users connect with content, commerce, and brands worldwide. To learn more, visit www.inmobi.com

About the Role:

The role is in the Central Strategy team at InMobi. This team crafts and drives the Group’s strategy across several levels – overall corporate strategy, business-unit strategy, and the review and operating architecture that aligns execution to both – and drives strategic partnerships that act as accelerators for that strategy. You will be a core member of this team (part of the CEO's office) and report into the Strategy Lead (Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations). You will work closely with business-unit leadership, with exposure to the Founder & CEO (Naveen Tewari).

You will operate with the direct sponsorship and air cover from the CEO’s office - which is how you’ll engage business-unit leaders and their teams, and drive outcomes through influence rather than formal authority.

You will be based out of Bangalore. We operate in a work-from-office setup and encourage everyone to be in office 5 days a week. This role is a strong platform for leadership and business-ownership roles down-the-line – giving you an end-to-end view of how a company with multiple businesses works across domains, along with visibility and access to its founders and leaders.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build deep, first-principles understanding of a new opportunity area, frame the problem, and synthesize a coherent, executive-ready strategy
• Land bets internally – building leadership buy-in, organizational will, and the case to commit resources behind them
• Work with business-unit teams to stand up and program-manage pilots – as PMO, and in some cases as direct owner responsible for execution
• Help run the operating rhythm of the CEO's office for the Group's current strategy - supporting the annual and quarterly planning process and setting up the right metrics across businesses -ensuring alignment with the overall strategy
• Design the structures, mechanisms and metrics that keep long-term direction and short-term focus balanced - and drive execution and governance as PMO across business-unit teams to keep priority initiatives on track

Strategic partnerships

• Build and advance a portfolio of strategic partnerships that act as accelerators and enablers of the strategy – researching partners outside-in, shaping win-win propositions, and program-managing them from first conversation through to launch

Who you are:

You are entrepreneurial to the core – a fast learner who can get on top of a complex, unfamiliar area quickly, build a credible hypothesis (often creative), and test it. You have a strong bias for action and the resolve to take things to a logical conclusion. You're driven, and you work through influence rather than authority - earning trust fast and the standing to be a real thought-partner. You hold two modes at once: thinking expansively about what's possible, then bringing the discipline to turn it into goals, plans, and results. And you stay sharp when priorities shift - which, in the CEO's office, they will - with an optimism that brings people with you.

What you need to succeed:

• 3–5 years of experience, with a minimum of 2 years working directly with senior stakeholders
• Prior experience in Management Consulting (MBB), Corporate Strategy (especially at Tech Product companies), Chief-of-Staff roles, Product Management or running your own company would be preferred
• Exceptional analytical and structured-thinking skills – the ability to ramp on complex new areas quickly, build credible hypotheses, and test them fast
• A creative, entrepreneurial builder’s instinct with a strong bias for action – comfortable operating well outside business-as-usual and doing what it takes to reach a logical conclusion
• Compelling storytelling and communication – in person and in writing / slides
• The relationship skills to build trust with BU teams and influence without authority and the temperament to thrive in ambiguity while continuously structuring clarity for yourself

Why Join Us?

You will help shape the direction for one of India’s biggest global contenders, by working closely with senior leadership and founders. We value autonomy, collaboration, technical innovation, and results-oriented thinking. InMobi’s culture is all about rewarding excellence – so there are fantastic opportunities for the right candidate!

The InMobi Culture

At InMobi, culture isn’t a buzzword; it's an ethos woven by every InMobian, reflecting our diverse backgrounds and experiences.

We thrive on challenges and seize every opportunity for growth. Our core values — thinking big, being passionate, showing accountability, and taking ownership with freedom — guide us in every decision we make.

We believe in nurturing and investing in your development through continuous learning and career progression with our InMobi Live Your Potential program.

InMobi is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process and in the workplace.