Strategy Lead

Nexxbase Marketing; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Noise in Gurugram is seeking a Founder’s Office partner who sits at the centre of decisions. You will take ambiguous, high-stakes questions and turn them into clarity and motion, owning outcomes rather than tasks.

A first-principles thinker with AI-native thinking, you move across GTM, Product, Design, Tech and Ops with high agency and low ego, earning trust to accelerate strategic bets and cross-functional execution.

Qualifications

• First-principles thinker with ability to handle ambiguity
• Experience guiding cross-functional initiatives with ownership
• Comfort operating at both high level and in details

Responsibilities

• Founder Leverage: turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into owned outcomes.
• Strategic Bets: drive cross-functional questions from problem to decision to execution.
• Zero-to-One: own new problems without a playbook until they’re ready to hand off.
• Company Clarity: translate founder intent into clear company priorities.
• Decision Quality: bring data-driven framing and options to leadership.
• Cross-Functional Force: work across GTM, Product, Design, Tech, and Ops with trust.

Skills

First-principles thinking

Ambiguity management

Cross-functional collaboration

High agency

Job description

About Noise

Noise was built on a simple belief: India can build world-class consumer tech. Today, we are India s #1 smartwatch brand, #2 in TWS audio, with 40M+ users - and now backed by Bose as a strategic investor. The next phase is sharper: building a globally relevant, AI-native company where every function compounds leverage, not headcount.

Why this role exists

The Founder s Office is not a support function. It is founder bandwidth, multiplied. The founders have more high-stakes questions than hours - this role takes the ones that are too ambiguous, too cross-cutting, or too important to hand off, and turns them into clarity and motion. This is a founder-partner role. You will sit where the biggest decisions get made: What we bet on next How we get there What we choose not to do If your instinct is to wait for instructions, this won t work. If your instinct is to take the ambiguous problem and come back with a plan, read on.

What success looks like

Not meetings attended. Not decks produced. Better decisions, made faster - and founders freed to do only what founders can. Leverage, not activity.

What will you own

• Founder Leverage Take the problems the founders can t yet delegate - ambiguous, unowned, high-stakes - and turn them into owned outcomes. Give the founders back their scarcest resource: attention.
• Strategic Bets Drive the hardest cross-functional questions from problem to decision to execution. New markets, new categories, partnerships- the bets that shape the next five years.
• Zero-to-One Stand up for what doesn t exist yet. When there s no team, no playbook, and no clear owner, you are the owner - until it s real enough to hand off.
• Company Clarity Turn founder intent into company direction. Make sure the whole company knows what matters most right now, and why - and that the top priorities never get lost in the noise.
• Decision Quality Bring truth to the table. Cut through opinion with data, sharp framing, and honest options. Make it easy for the founders to make the right call, fast.
• Cross-Functional Force Move across GTM, Product, Design, Tech, and Ops without needing a title to do it. Earn trust fast, align people who don t report to you, and make the important things happen.

Who you are

A first-principles thinker - energised, not paralysed, by ambiguity AI-native in how you think and work Equally sharp at 30,000 feet and in the detail High-agency - you take the problem, not just the task Low-ego - you make founders and teams better without needing the credit A magnet for trust - people give you the hard problems because you come back with answers 6-8 years across high-growth startups, product/tech, consulting, or a founder s office - with real ownership of ambiguous, high-stakes work

What won t work

• Waiting to be told what to do
• Being a note-taker or a meeting scheduler
• Incremental thinking
• Comfort with good enough

Why this is a career-defining role

You don t often get to sit at the centre of a company at this moment - with founder access, a real mandate, and global ambition - and build the judgment that only comes from being where the biggest calls get made. This is one of those times.

Job location: Gurugram