Strategy Lead

Noise; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Noise in Gurugram is seeking a founder‑partner to shape strategy and drive decisive action. You will sit where critical bets are made, turning ambiguity into a concrete plan and execution.

This is a founder‑level mandate with broad cross‑functional impact across GTM, Product, Design, Tech and Ops. This role requires 6–8 years in high-growth startups, product/tech, consulting, or a founder’s office, with a proven ability to take ownership of ambiguous, high‑stakes work and deliver tangible

Qualifications

• 6–8 years across high-growth startups, product/tech, consulting, or a founder’s office.
• Ability to think from first principles and operate with high agency.

Responsibilities

• Founder Leverage: own ambiguous, unowned, high-stakes problems.
• Strategic Bets: drive cross-functional bets into decisions and execution.
• Zero-to-One: stand up new initiatives where there is no playbook.
• Company Clarity: align the organization around top priorities.

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.

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