Category Manager

Role: Project Lead (Category Manager) – Onsite at HACA, Calicut

About the Role

business, product, and operations

drive, innovate, and execute

Key Responsibilities

Business Ownership

• Own P&L for your vertical — revenue, cost, profitability, and growth.
• Drive student enrollment targets, placement success, and category expansion.
• Identify and execute new growth opportunities and partnerships.

Product & Academic Excellence

• Work with Academic Excellence and Mentors to deliver high-quality programs.
• Ensure every learner experience (online + offline) meets HACA’s benchmarks.
• Collaborate on curriculum, product roadmap, and innovation in delivery.

Operations & Team Leadership

• Lead a cross-functional team of Student Happiness Officers, Sales, and Academic staff.
• Build systems and processes for smooth daily operations across locations.
• Solve operational bottlenecks quickly and build scalable solutions.

Strategy & Execution

• Translate HACA’s vision into actionable monthly/quarterly OKRs.
• Balance long-term category growth with short-term execution discipline.
• Track and report performance metrics regularly to leadership.

Student Success & Satisfaction

• Ensure students achieve desired outcomes - placements, projects, growth.
• Implement strong retention and satisfaction programs.
• Proactively identify risks or issues impacting student experience and solve them.
  

What We’re Looking For

• 3–6 years of experience in

  business operations, edtech, or category management

  .
• Strong leadership and people management skills - able to inspire and hold teams accountable.
• High ownership mindset - ability to act like an entrepreneur within the org.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and execution capabilities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Hustling attitude: hands-on, resourceful, and outcome-driven.
  

Why HACA?

• Be the

  Mini CEO

  of a vertical: full ownership, freedom, and accountability.
• Work directly with the founders and senior leadership to scale impact globally.
• Build something trusted in Kerala, respected worldwide.
• Accelerated growth path - Project Leads evolve into

  Zonal Heads, Country Managers, and beyond

  as we expand.

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