Associate Director / Manager - Founder's Office

Key Highlights

• Position:

  2 positions open across experience brackets

• Location:

  In Office (Gurgaon)

• Experience:

  2-7 years of experience as a consultant with a top-tier firm or a startup operator at a fast-growing early-stage startup. Top tier education is a plus.

• CTC Range:

  INR 15-40LPA CTC (fixed + variable) + 15L-30L in ESOPs, depending on past work experience and skills. However, CTC no bar for exceptional candidates

• Note:

  This role is high on rigour and is valuable for you only if you are looking to create incredible value from ESOPs, while having a founder-like mindset.

• Application process:

  Apply on the link provided to be considered for this role

About Airblack

Airblack is India’s largest alternate skilling platform, helping people become microentrepreneurs and creators. Our mission is to help the next 100 million people in the workforce get access to meaningful opportunities.

We currently operate in sectors such as beauty, fashion, nutrition, digital & home businesses, impacting over 1M learners every month. Our flagship academy in the beauty space is India’s #1 Beauty Academy brand, with an alumni base of over 40,000 entrepreneurs in 300+ cities in India. Our apps consistently rank in top 10 education apps in India with 1M+ users and 40M+ minutes of learning content being consumed every month.

Airblack has raised over $11 million from marquee investors such as Info Edge Ventures, Elevation Capital, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Blume Founders Fund and Better Capital, and leading angels such as Vidit (Meesho), Kunal (CRED), Deepinder (Zomato), Harshit & Shashank (Razorpay) and so on.

Who are we looking for?

If you are a driven management consultant, startup operator or ex-founder seeking a chance to make an exponential impact, this is the role for you. Working closely with the founders, you’ll have access to all the projects and initiatives at Airblack. From 0-to-1 marketing initiatives to building high-impact skilling products, you will experience all aspects of building and scaling a business.

What would you be doing?

As part of the Founder’s office, you’d be responsible for:

• Own 0-to-1 Initiatives:

  Be a leader and build new 0-to-1 initiatives and experiments across growth, marketing, product and operations.

• Build and empower teams:

  From recruiting teams to coaching them on playbooks & culture, to ensuring right goals are set, right KPIs are being measured - you will act as a partner to making teams successful.

• Program Management:

  Work closely with the founders and key leadership to manage cross-team projects, monitor progress and KPIs and drive business and P&L growth

• Scaling Execution Playbooks:

  Be the strategic contributor to our most critical scaling initiatives and develop processes, metrics, and products to drive scale 10X.

• Strategic Analysis & Fundraising:

  Work directly with the founders on core company strategy & fundraising initiatives.

What makes you a suitable candidate?

We would love to hear from you if you meet the qualifications below:

• 2-7 years of experience as a consultant with a top-tier firm or an ex-founder, preferably with marketing / product / growth skillset [2-4 years for Manager, 4-7 years for Associate Director]
• Tier-1 college is a strong preference but not a filtering criteria
• Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving skills; passionate about the startups and tech ecosystem
• Strong team skills and the ability to collaborate with senior management
• You have worked in an environment with high rigour

Why should you join Airblack?

• Skilling with a difference:

  We are one of the very few education companies in India that have been able to do all the following things together: deliver outcomes, stay lean (under 50 people), raise funds in a down market from top investors, have an infinite runway, as well as lead a completely new whitespace. Get the opportunity to be the face of a new era in the education & skilling sector in a high-skin-in-the-game leadership role

• Experimentation & Build:

  We have a culture of rapid experimentation, freedom to fail & iterate, and owning scale-up through process building

• Thriving Market Opportunity:

  We are building in a whitespace with massive opportunity & headstart - India has 15 million people entering the workforce every year and less than half a million job. Your impact will help create a dent India’s future

• Lean Team with High Talent Density:

  Great missions require great people - and we are fortunate to have some of the smartest and nicest people support us in our journey. Our team comprises ex-entrepreneurs, VCs, and operators from places such as Goldman Sachs, Paytm, Oyo, Bain & Co., BCG, Urban Company, top IITs and so on

About the Team at Airblack:

We are a lean team (under 30 members) with a high curiosity quotient and talent density. We like to partner with highly ambitious people who like to set high benchmarks for themselves, and have backed it up with actions in the past. Current management team:

• Videt: Founder; Product & Business; Ex-Elevation Capital, BCG, NSIT, 2X founder
• Vaibhav: Founder, Engineering; Ex-Goldman Sachs, IIT Roorkee CS
• Nirmal: Business & Category; Ex-Urban Company, Vedanta, IIT Madras
• Shreyash: Growth; Ex-Fibr, GlobalBees, IIT Bombay
• Harleen: BD; Ex-Spicejet, Entrepreneur
• Hrishikesh: Operations, Ex-Teach for India