The Role
This is a senior, high-impact leadership role responsible for shaping the program strategy
and portfolio direction across key growth areas. The role owns the end-to-end lifecycle of
new and existing programsfrom opportunity identification and strategic prioritization to scale,
optimization, and long-term sustainability.
The incumbent will operate as a thought partner to senior leadership, drive cross-functional
alignment, and play a critical role in determining where and how the business invests for
growth.
Key Responsibilities:
Portfolio & Growth Strategy (Primary Ownership)
- Own the program portfolio strategy, including identification, prioritization, and sequencing of new program opportunities.
- Lead market opportunity assessment, demand forecasting, learner segmentation, and competitive intelligence to support investment decisions.
- Define multi-year portfolio roadmaps aligned with business growth, revenue, and margin objectives.
- Drive decisions on scale-up, redesign, or sunset of programs based on performance and strategic fit.
Strategic New Product Development
- Provide strategic leadership for new program creation, ensuring strong differentiation, academic rigor, and market relevance.
- Shape program positioning, pricing logic, cohort sizing, and go-to-market hypotheses in partnership with Commercial and Marketing leaders.
- Ensure programs are built with a scalable, repeatable, and profitable model from the outset.
Senior Stakeholder & Partner Leadership
- Act as the primary strategic interface with academic partners & faculty
- Influence and align senior stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Delivery, Product, and Finance.
Data, Insights & Governance
- Establish structured frameworks for go/no-go decisions, portfolio reviews, and post- launch performance evaluation.
- Leverage data and insights to guide pricing, investment, and risk trade-offs.
- Ensure governance discipline around program launches, changes, and exits.
Leadership & Capability Building
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing program strategy / NPD team.
- Set quality standards for research, strategy, and execution rigor.
- Actively develop future leaders within the team.
Requirements
- 612+ years of experience in strategy, consulting, product, program management, analytics, or business leadership roles.
- Strong foundation in management, analytics, economics, engineering, or related fields.
- MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification strongly preferred.
- Strong commercial acumen with comfort in ambiguity and complex decision-making environments.
- Balances growth ambition with execution discipline.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to challenge, align, and influence.
- Passionate about building scalable, high-impact learning products.
Work Location - Gurgaon & Bangalore
