Strategic Projects Lead

Kirana Club Pte Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kirana Club Pte Ltd in Bengaluru is seeking a high-agency Strategic Projects Lead to work closely with the founders on high-impact initiatives. This is not an entry-level or coordination role; you will own messy, high-stakes problems from first principles to execution.

You will span every function, drive end-to-end projects, and institutionalize processes that scale as the company grows. The ideal candidate has 5–12 years of operating experience, a bias for action, and comfort with AI-enabled

Qualifications

• 5–12 years of operating experience in a founder's office, strategy role, or fast-growing startup.
• Proven track record delivering end-to-end initiatives from ambiguity to execution.
• Ability to translate vague problems into actionable workstreams with clear owners and timelines.
• Strong written communication with concise decision briefs.
• Familiarity with AI tools to move fast and analyze outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-priority cross-functional projects end-to-end, from scoping to execution.
• Collaborate with founders to convert ambiguous problems into defined workstreams, owners, timelines, and outcomes.
• Run operating rhythms for company-wide initiatives, including reviews and blockers.
• Drive strategic hiring and org planning initiatives; avoid merely supporting them.
• Unstick bottlenecks and build repeatable processes as the company scales.
• Surface state of the business to founders with crisp visibility.
• Develop systems that turn coordination into a structural strength.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Strategic thinking

Executive collaboration

AI tooling familiarity

Job description

We're looking for a high-agency Strategic Projects Lead to work directly with the founders on the initiatives that matter most. This is not a coordinator role. It's a role for someone who can take a messy, high-stakes problem — a new market entry, an org redesign, a broken cross-functional process — and see it through from first-principles to execution. You'll sit at the center of the company, work across every function, and be one of the few people with full visibility into what's actually moving and what's stuck.

Location: Bangalore · Experience: 5-12 yrs experience · Type: Full-time

What you'll do

• Lead high-priority cross-functional projects end-to‑end — from scoping the problem to closing the loop on execution
• Work directly with founders to convert ambiguous problems into clear workstreams, owners, timelines, and outcomes
• Run the operating rhythm for company-wide initiatives — weekly reviews, decision logs, blocker escalations, action trackers
• Drive business reviews, org planning cycles, and strategic hiring initiatives — not support them
• See what's stuck and move fast to unstick it — with or without formal authority
• Build repeatable systems and processes as the company scales so coordination becomes a structural strength
• Make founders sharper, faster — surface what's stuck, bring crisp visibility into the state of the business

What we're looking for

• 5-12 years of operating experience — founder's office, chief-of-staff, strategy consulting, or a senior cross-functional role at a fast-growing startup
• Has owned a messy, high-stakes problem end-to‑end and shipped the outcome — not just structured the deck
• Drives outcomes through clarity and influence, not formal authority
• Writes one-pagers that force decisions, not strategy decks
• Sees what's stuck, unsticks it — without waiting for a mandate
• AI-native — uses AI tools to move faster, prototype, and analyse