Program Manager

Program Manager - Altera Institute | Work from Office | Gurugram

Altera Institute is looking to expand its academic and program leadership team for its flagship Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Applied Marketing. This role sits at the intersection of program strategy, student experience, and industry integration, and is critical to delivering a high-impact, outcome-driven learning journey.

At Altera, the Program Manager is not just an operator but a builder - someone who can shape how modern business education is delivered, experienced, and measured.

This role will work closely with the leadership team and industry mentors to ensure that the PGP remains deeply relevant to today's digital-first marketing ecosystem, while consistently delivering strong learner outcomes.

The key reasons why you should apply for this role are:

• Learn from ex Marketing Managers and Directors from India's CEO Factory, Hindustan Unilever Limited.

• Solve hard problems that are new to education but have been solved in some other sectors.

• Opportunity to see your work directly impacts thousands of people. Most tenured professionals and academicians don't get the opportunity to do that.

What You'll Work On

In this role, you will own the end-to-end execution and evolution of the PGP, ensuring that every aspect of the student journey reflects Altera's philosophy of application-led learning.

You will act as the central node across students, faculty, industry experts, and internal teams - ensuring alignment, quality, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Own the PGP experience end-to-end, ensuring a seamless and high-quality learning journey for students

• Collaborate with industry leaders and mentors to continuously refine curriculum and ensure real-world relevance

• Drive program operations including scheduling, delivery, and execution of all academic and non-academic components

• Track and monitor student performance metrics, ensuring progress, engagement, and outcomes are consistently met

• Work cross-functionally with operations, product, and marketing teams to enhance program delivery and student experience

• Build and drive student engagement initiatives, including events, workshops, and campus activities

• Ensure strong stakeholder communication across students, faculty, mentors and internal teams

• Identify gaps and implement improvements to strengthen learning outcomes and overall program effectiveness.

Why This Role is Interesting

• Opportunity to shape a next-generation marketing program built for a digital-first world

• Work closely with industry practitioners and mentors, influencing how education meets real-world application

• Ability to directly impact student outcomes and career trajectories

• Exposure to building systems and processes in a high-growth, early-stage education environment

Skills, Qualifications & Experience

• MBA or equivalent qualification in a relevant field

• 3+ years of experience in program management, operations, or stakeholder management roles

• Strong ability to manage multiple stakeholders (students, faculty, industry partners)

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• High ownership mindset with the ability to execute and problem-solve independently

• Strong organizational and time management skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

About Altera Institute

About Altera Institute Education is one of the most critical challenges to solve today. With a rapidly evolving job market shaped by AI and digital transformation, traditional systems are struggling to keep up.

At Altera Institute, we are building a new model of education that is outcome-driven, industry-relevant, built on best-in-class instructional design and deeply learner-centric across every touchpoint. The secret sauce at the institute is it's instructional design, a learner centric ethos and a bar for quality that runs across touchpoints. This reflects in an 80%+ NPS across all programs since inception.

We are VC backed and has CXOs and Founders of some of India's top digital commerce companies as it's investors. We are looking for smart passionate folks to join us in this mission of building a better, smarter and more outcome-oriented education system. We are a young company and each role has the ability to make a large impact. We can assure of a very talent dense, intellectually honest, action oriented and collaborative environment. We are sure that you will join for the opportunity and stay for the impact of seeing your work help thousands of others.