We're looking for someone who has built things, broken things, fixed things, and done it all without waiting to be told.Who this is forYou've been close to the beginning of something. Employee 2, or 5, or 8, early enough that you wore five hats, late enough that you know what it takes to scale. You've seen a founder make decisions under pressure and you've understood, intuitively, why. You've been in rooms where the answer wasn't obvious and you've been the one who moved anyway.You don't manage tasks. You own outcomes. There's a difference, and you feel it viscerally when someone around you doesn't.What we actually needSomeone who sits at the rare intersection of three things that almost never come in one person:The strategic brain. You think in systems. You see a product and immediately start asking what's holding it back, what the next version should look like, and what bets are worth making. You're not satisfied with what exists, you're already imagining what could.The operator's hands. You execute. Not eventually, not after alignment, not after three more meetings. You identify what needs to happen, figure out how, pull the right people together, and make it happen. You're allergic to the gap between plan and action.The human instinct. You know that everything in a startup gets done through people. You can read a room. You can bring a team together around a direction without formal authority. You can push back on someone senior and have it land as a conversation, not a conflict. You are , quietly, naturally, someone people want to follow.Core competencies we're hiring forOwnership without instruction. You don't need to be asked. You see the gap and you close it. Your track record shows outcomes you created, not tasks you completed.Chaos navigation. You've operated in environments where the process didn't exist yet, the structure was being built in real time, and the roadmap changed every two weeks. You didn't just survive it. You built things inside it.Cross-functional execution. You've gotten things done through people who don't report to you. You know how to brief a function, hold them accountable, and course-correct without micromanaging. You understand that real execution is relational, not hierarchical.Growth and innovation thinking. You look at what exists and ask what it should become. You bring ideas, about formats, models, channels, experiences, that nobody asked you for. You don't wait for a strategy deck to tell you what to try.Product and customer obsession, You notice bad UX as a personal affront. You read customer feedback like it's urgent news. You think about the person on the other end of the product constantly, not because you're told to, but because you cannot simply not.Communication that moves people. You write clearly and you speak with conviction. You can walk into a room of five people with different agendas and leave with alignment. You can write a brief that actually gets executed the way you intended.Founder-adjacent operating style. You've been close enough to the top to understand how decisions really get made. You know when to escalate and when to solve. You know how to manage up without being political about it. You've challenged someone senior, been right, and earned their respect for it.The kind of experience that signals you're readyYou've been an early employee at a startup and watched, or driven, the zero-to-one journey firsthand.You've owned something that had a number attached to it. Revenue, retention, growth, something that was yours to move.You've led or coordinated across multiple functions simultaneously. You've held multiple threads at once and kept them from tangling.You've shipped something. A product, a campaign, a launch, a system. Something that went from idea to reality because of you.You've worked in a content-led, creator-led, or edtech environment, or you've spent enough time close to one that you understand the dynamics intuitively.What you will not find hereA quiet, structured role with predictable weeks. We move fast, the context shifts, and the work is genuinely hard. If you need a detailed playbook handed to you before you start, this will be frustrating. If you need a calm environment to do your best work, this will exhaust you. If you're brilliant at research but slow to act, you'll struggle. We're not the place for those things, and we'd rather tell you that upfront.What you will findA company that is building something genuinely ambitious. A founder who is deeply involved and deeply invested in getting this right. A team that moves with urgency because it cares, not because it's forced to. A role where the ceiling for your impact and your growth is defined entirely by what you're capable of, not by your title or your tenure.This is one of those roles that, in three years, you'll point to as the thing that changed your trajectory. The kind of role that makes you a significantly better professional because of how much it demands from you.Titles you might currently holdFounder's Office · Chief of Staff · Business Operator · Growth Lead · Strategy & Ops · Category Manager · Program Lead · Founding Team Member · Product & Growth Lead · General ManagerYou may have never held the exact title /"Product Owner./" That is completely fine. What matters is that you have done the work.What we'll evaluate you onRaw ownership and proof of it.“Startup grit”, not the word, the evidence.Cross-functional execution.Product and customer obsession.The ability to lead through influence.Communication quality. Energy.The degree to which you've been close to the beginning of something real.Seniority matters less than almost everything else on that list.Location and structureMumbai · In-office · Full-timeCompensation is market-competitive for an experienced startup operator at this stage. The growth path from this role is into senior product leadership and, for the right person, into the company's broader leadership layer.If you read this and felt even the slightest of recognition, we'd like to hear from you!
Job Title
Product Business Lead