MT - Founder's Office (Innovation & Product Strategy)

thedeconstruct.in; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Deconstruct is seeking a Management Trainee for the Founder's Office to drive innovation and product strategy. You will work with the founders and cross-functional teams across Brand, R&D, NPD, Supply Chain, Finance and Regulatory to identify opportunities and priority initiatives.

Role combines strategy with execution: build business cases, run research, and shepherd projects from concept to launch while communicating clearly with leadership.

Qualifications

• 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).
• First-principles thinking (non-negotiable): Breaks problems down to fundamentals, questions assumptions, builds from ground up.
• Problem solving: Structures ambiguous problems, finds root causes and practical solutions.
• Basic data analysis & insighting: Comfortable with Excel/Google Sheets; translates numbers into insights.
• Consumer research: Design and run research, read consumer signals with judgement.
• Project management: Plans work, manages timelines and keeps multiple stakeholders moving.
• High ownership: Treats outcomes as their own and follows through.
• Bias for action: Moves fast, tests quickly and prioritizes progress over perfection.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Works with cross-functional teams and influences stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Innovation & product strategy: Identify white spaces across categories and inputs for the product roadmap.
• Consumer research: Plan and run surveys, interviews, reviews and social listening; translate insights.
• Data analysis & insighting: Analyze sales, marketplace, search-trend and competitor data.
• Market & competitor intelligence: Track D2C beauty landscape and launches; flag implications.
• Project management: Own founder-priority initiatives end to end; set timelines and remove blockers.
• Founder-ready communication: Prepare crisp decks, memos and review notes for decisions.
• Special projects: Take on other strategic projects from the Founder's Office as priorities evolve.

Skills

First-principles thinking

Problem solving

Data analysis

Consumer research

Project management

High ownership

Bias for action

Cross-functional collaboration

Interest in skincare

Education

Tier 1/2 institute business/commerce/tech degree

Tools

Excel/Google Sheets

SQL

BI tools

Job description

MT - Founder's Office (Innovation & Product Strategy)

0-2 years

Full-Time

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

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 influence stakeholders across the org through clarity and trust.
• Interest in the category: Genuine curiosity about skincare, beauty and D2C consumer brands.