Manager, Strategy & Innovation

About us

WeWork India is one of India's leading flexible workspace operators - Great Place To Work'certified (Nov 2024 - Nov 2025), aimed at creating flexible workspace solutions for company of all sizes.

Since its inception in India in 2016, WeWork India has expanded across 68 operational centres in Chennai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, and Hyderabad. WeWork India meets distinct workspace needs, for various businesses. WeWork India strives to provide customised and curated solutions for various office space needs through its products and solutions. At WeWork India, we're driven by collaboration, creativity, and a shared vision to redefine the future of work.

If you're looking to be part of a dynamic, fast-growing organisation that valuestalent and fosters growth, join us and build your future with WeWork India.

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About the role

We are looking for a highly driven and entrepreneurial Innovation & Strategy Manager to lead high-impact strategic and innovation initiatives across the organization. This role sits at the center of some of the company's most critical transformation and growth projects, working closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, design solutions, drive execution, and ensure successful adoption.

This is a highly dynamic role that combines strategic thinking, structured problem-solving, PMO rigor, stakeholder management, analytics, and innovation management. You will play a key role in identifying emerging opportunities, solving complex business challenges, building scalable frameworks, and driving organization-wide alignment on strategic priorities.

You will be expected to independently manage high-stakes projects from ideation to implementation, often operating in ambiguous environments with evolving priorities. The role requires close collaboration with CXOs and senior functional leaders. This role will also provide exposure to collaborating and working with the CEO and their office.

In addition to driving strategic initiatives, you will also help foster a culture of innovation across WeWork India by creating mechanisms, programs, and governance structures that encourage incremental as well as disruptive ideation and enable adoption of new ideas across teams.

Roles and responsibilities

1. Strategic initiatives management (ideation - implementation - adoption)

• Drive end-to-end execution of high-impact initiatives across the organization, from problem definition/ solution design to implementation/ adoption collaborate with CXO-level stakeholders

• Act as the central PMO lead for key cross-functional projects, ensuring strong governance, execution rigor, stakeholder management, and timely delivery

• Build structured business cases, strategic frameworks, data models, dashboards, and analytical insights to support data-driven decision-making

• Translate ambiguous business problems into clear analyses, actionable recommendations, and scalable implementation plans

• Work with the BI team to specify and build relevant data points/ dashboards across projects

• Collaborate with technology & engineering team acting as a quasi-product manager

Experience and qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in strategy, innovation, consulting, business transformation, program management, or cross-functional business roles in fast-paced environments

• Prior experience in strategy or innovation teams in high-growth environments or management consulting preferred

• Strong track record of independently managing high-stakes, cross-functional projects with senior stakeholder involvement

• Demonstrated ability to work closely with CXO-level stakeholders and drive alignment across multiple functions

• Exceptional structured problem-solving and analytical thinking capabilities

• Strong proficiency in data analysis and business modeling

• Experience operating in ambiguous and evolving environments with high ownership and accountability

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills

• Strong program management and execution rigor with the ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action, ownership, and driving outcomes

• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution

• Passion for innovation, organizational transformation, and building scalable business solutions

Equal Opportunity Employer

WeWork India is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our employees and members. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to embody our values and all aspects of employment including the decisions to hire and promote, are based on merit, competence, performance and business needs.

Our total rewards philosophy is aimed at providing compensation that is competitive, performance linked and helps us attract and retain the talent we need to drive our business forward and serve our members. As part of WeWork India, our commitment to you is that you'll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters collaboration, flexibility and inclusion.