Associate Director, Founder's Office

Key Highlights

• Position: Associate Director, Founder's Office
• Location: Gurgaon, in-office
• Experience: 2-7 years of experience as a management consultant / ex-VC or PE professional / Product Manager / Entrepreneur [2-4 years for Manager, 4-7 years for Associate Director]
• CTC Range: Marketlevel CTC + meaningful ESOPs (high ownership)
• Important: Apply only if you are ok with high rigor. This role will average 60 hour workweeks with high skin in the game / ESOP / best in class pay. If you are not comfortable going all in, this may not be the right role for you.

About Airblack & Zudo:

Airblack is India's largest alternate skilling platform. Our mission is to help the next 100 million people in the workforce get access to meaningful opportunities. With a lean team of under 30 people working at the intersection of AI and learning, we are on track to cross 100cr in revenue run-rate in FY27.

We currently operate in sectors such as content creation, SME skills, beauty, fashion, nutrition, digital & home businesses, impacting over 1M learners every month. Our apps consistently rank in top 10 education apps in India with 1M+ users and 40M+ minutes of learning content being consumed every month. One of our new products, Zudo, is now India's fastest growing apps in the skilling / content space.

Airblack has raised Rs. 100cr+ from marquee investors such as Elevation Capital, Info Edge Ventures, 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.

What makes you a suitable candidate

We are assembling some of the smartest and highly ambitious individuals under one roof, to build a consumer-tech company that we can be proud of. This will not be a 9-5 well defined role, so if you're looking for one, you shouldn't consider applying.

If you are a driven management consultant / ex-VC or PE professional / Product Manager / Entrepreneur seeking a chance to make an exponential impact, this is the role for you. Working closely with the founder, 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.

• 2-7 years of experience as a management consultant / ex-VC or PE professional / Product Manager / Entrepreneur [2-4 years for Manager, 4-7 years for Associate Director]
• You think in systems and are AI native. You can breakdown a problem into workflows with AI / Agents at center.
• Tier-1 college is a strong preference but not a filtering criterion
• Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving skills; passionate about startups and the tech ecosystem
• Ok with high rigor. This role will average 60 hours workweeks with high skin in the game / ESOP / best in class pay. If you are not comfortable going all in, this may not be the right role for you.

What would you be doing

Role

• Own 0-to-1 Initiatives: Be a leader and build new 0-to-1 initiatives and experiments across growth, marketing, product and operations.
• AI Native Problem Solving: We are select few companies in the country whose entire operations and strategy runs behind AI agents and workflows. You will deploy agents & AI workflows and use the latest in AI to accelerate business growth
• Build and empower teams: From recruiting teams to coaching them on playbooks & culture, to ensuring the right goals are set and the 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 with the founder on core company strategy & fundraising initiatives.

Perks

• Fast-growth: This role fast-tracks to VP -> CXO in 2-3 years
• High skin in the game: Aggressive ESOP allocations at the onset. We recently concluded our first ESOP buyback, and if the company continues doing well in next 3 years, this promises to be a life-altering opportunity in terms on ESOP liquidity
• Build in one of the highest talent density in consumer-tech: Learn from and work with some of the best peers you can find in a consumer-tech company in NCR.
• Infinite budget for knowledge, upskilling, tech tools & AI tools
• Mentor connect available to the whose and whose of startup ecosystem (check our angel investor list)
• Usuals: Health Insurance cover, flexible leave policy, a free environment to build what you love