Opportunity brief
Responsibilities of the Candidate:
- Take full, end-to-end ownership of a business-critical mandate - not a slice of it, not a support role on it - with full accountability for the outcome - Set the strategy for your area yourself, in close partnership with senior leadership, rather than executing someone else's plan - Build and lead the cross functional muscle needed to get there - pulling in Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, and Customer Experience as the problem demands, often without formal authority over those teams - Use AI as a default part of how you work - for research, analysis, drafting, decision-support and speed. Build AI-driven workflows, automations, and tools to solve problems and remove manual work wherever it makes sense, not just use AI as a personal productivity aid - Get hands-on wherever the problem is - a boardroom strategy conversation one day, a store floor or a vendor negotiation the next - Be personally accountable for the outcome, and be recognized accordingly when it moves the needle
Requirements:
- Undergraduate degree from an IIT (or equivalent top-tier engineering institute) and/or an MBA from an IIM (or a global top-10 program) - this bar is real and non-negotiable
- 2-5 years of experience with at least one stint at a top-tier management consulting firm (McKinsey, BCG, Bain), a bulge-bracket investment bank, or a similarly selective, high rigor environment
- Direct experience having led or personally driven a program, deal, or business line worth $50 - 100M+ in revenue, cost, or capital impact
- Prior experience as a founder or founding team member of a startup (funded or bootstrapped, successful or not) is a strong plus
- A track record of solving genuinely hard, ambiguous problems at some of the best companies in the world
- Fluency with AI tools as a bare minimum, non-negotiable requirement. You should already be using AI daily to research, analyze, write, and make decisions faster, and be able to build AI-driven workflows, automations, or lightweight agents/tools to solve real problems, not just use AI as a chat assistant
- Excellent written and verbal communication — you can distill complexity into a one-pager a founder can act on immediately