Senior Manager - Career Prep

Masters’ Union; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Masters’ Union is seeking a Senior Manager to own the behavioral and career readiness ecosystem for its PGP students. This senior leadership role designs, scales, and improves behavioral preparation, interview readiness, and career asset quality across cohorts.

The role combines strategic program design, applied psychology, and hands-on leadership to ensure students are well prepared for high-stakes hiring environments and can present compelling narratives to recruiters across functions and

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of full-time experience in career coaching, behavioral training, leadership development, or related fields.
• Experience designing behavioral programs and managing mentors, coaches, or facilitators at scale.
• Strong grounding in applied psychology, coaching methodologies, or behavioral science.
• Background in Psychology or an MBA preferred (not mandatory).
• Experience in higher education, consulting, executive coaching, or talent development environments is a plus.
• Deep understanding of behavioral interviewing and hiring psychology.
• Strong program design, facilitation, and coaching skills.
• Ability to build repeatable, scalable systems without diluting quality.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence across levels.

Responsibilities

• Own the behavioral and career readiness ecosystem for Masters’ Union PGP students.
• This is a senior leadership role responsible for designing, scaling, and continuously improving behavioral preparation, interview readiness, and career asset quality across cohorts.
• Support in continuous enhancement of the mentorship experience through feedback, data, and mentor enablement.
• Tracking student progress through mentorship touch points, identify readiness gaps, and intervene through targeted coaching.
• Owning the design, structure, and continuous improvement of the behavioral preparation curriculum.
• Focusing on interview storytelling, communication, self-awareness, decision-making, and executive presence.
• Integrate behavioral preparation with domain-specific interview readiness across roles, functions, and industries.
• Developing and maintaining behavioral career assets, including interview question banks, storytelling frameworks, evaluation rubrics, feedback templates, self-assessment tools.
• Monitoring behavioral readiness signals across cohorts and refine preparation based on interview performance and outcomes.
• Driving the quality, consistency, and narrative alignment of student-facing career assets, including resumes, LinkedIn profiles, video CVs, and role-specific portfolios.
• Ensuring all assets reflect recruiter expectations, behavioral narratives, and role readiness.
• Standardizing frameworks, review processes, and feedback loops to enable scale without compromising quality.
• Incorporating recruiter feedback, hiring trends, and placement outcomes into continuous asset improvement.

Skills

Career coaching

Behavioral training

Leadership development

Mentor management

Coaching methodologies

Applied psychology

Behavioral interviewing

Program design

Facilitation

Coaching skills

Education

MBA

Psychology degree

Job description

Founded in 2020, Masters’ Union is anew-age, industry-led university focused on business, technology, engineering, and entrepreneurship. Built around learning by doing, the institution combines academics with real-world projects, startup building, and global exposure, with the ambition of becoming one of the world’stop business schools and multidisciplinary universities over the next twodecades.

Today, Masters’ Union has nearly 3,500students across undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive programs, withalmost half being experienced professionals. Spread across nearly 5 lakh squarefeet in Gurgaon and Manesar, the institution houses the PwC Center for Generative AI, a Bloomberg Lab, Gurgaon’s premier makerspace, AI and robotics infrastructure, advanced bioengineering workshops, andstartup incubation spaces, while also expanding into areas such asbioengineering and genetic engineering.

The institution is chaired by Manoj Kohli,former CEO of Bharti Airtel and former Country Head of SoftBank India. Itsleadership ecosystem includes Vivek Gambhir, Pankaj Bansal, Sanjiv Bikhchandani,Amitabh Kant, and 30+ other founders, CEOs, investors, and policymakers whocontribute to teaching and institution building.

About the Role

As a Senior Manager, you will own the behavioraland career readiness ecosystem for Masters’ Union PGP students. This is asenior leadership role responsible for designing, scaling, and continuouslyimproving behavioral preparation, interview readiness, and career asset qualityacross cohorts.

The role combines strategic programdesign , applied behavioral expertise , and hands-on leadership to ensure students are not just placed—but are genuinely prepared forhigh-stakes hiring environments.

Specifically,this role will involve

• Supporting in continuousenhancement of the mentorship experience through feedback, data, and mentorenablement.
• Tracking of studentprogress through mentorship touch points, identify readiness gaps, and intervenethrough targeted coaching or redesigned support.
• Owning the design,structure, and continuous improvement of the behavioral preparation curriculum.
• Focusing oninterview storytelling, communication, self-awareness, decision-making, andexecutive presence
• Integrate behavioralpreparation with domain-specific interview readiness across roles, functions,and industries
• Developing andmaintaining behavioral career assets, including:
  Interview question banks
  Storytelling frameworks
  Evaluation rubrics
  Feedback templates
  Self-assessment tools
• Monitoringbehavioral readiness signals across cohorts and refine preparation based oninterview performance and outcomes.
• Driving the quality,consistency, and narrative alignment of student-facing career assets,including:
  Resumes
  LinkedIn profiles
  Video CVs
  Role-specific portfolios
• Ensuring all assetsreflect recruiter expectations, behavioral narratives, and role readiness.
• Standardizingframeworks, review processes, and feedback loops to enable scale withoutcompromising quality.
• Incorporaterecruiter feedback, hiring trends, and placement outcomes into continuous assetimprovement

Ideal candidate will have

• 5–10 years offull-time experience in career coaching, behavioral training, leadershipdevelopment, or related fields
• Prior experiencedesigning behavioral programs and managing mentors, coaches, or facilitators atscale
• Strong grounding in appliedpsychology, coaching methodologies, or behavioral science
• Background in Psychologyor an MBA preferred (not mandatory.
• Experience in highereducation, consulting, executive coaching, or talent development environmentsis a plus
• Deep understandingof behavioral interviewing and hiring psychology
• Strong programdesign, facilitation, and coaching skills.
• Ability to build repeatable,scalable systems without diluting quality
• Strong leadershippresence with the ability to influence across levels.