Senior Category Manager
2 weeks ago
About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced Category Manager to join Leap. The person will contribute their expertise to the organization while exploring new ventures or scaling / collaborating on current projects.
The charter for this role will include:
- Identify, validate, and launch new business opportunities within target categories. Working on transformation projects that will unlock the next phase of growth for the company. You will do multiple ‘Strategize - Build - Operate - Transfer’ projects in a year.
- Working closely with Founders and Business leaders in solving key problems. You will act as a consultant to help multiple business lines and plug any gaps needed for the business to succeed.
- Collaborate across multiple central teams including functional specialists and business category teams to ensure coherence.
- Develop and execute strategies to grow product categories, ensuring market fit and scalability.
- Manage innovation and product development programs to align with category goals.
- Work on open ended projects such as market research, opportunity sizing, user research, identifying M&A opportunities.
- Do whatever else is critical for the business to win.
Ideal Persona would:
- 5-8 years of proven experience as a category manager, or Program Manager in high-growth businesses.
- Experience in a high growth startup, ideally exposed to the 0-1 and 1-100 journeys.
- Have experience with 0 -> 1 phase of company building (rapid experimentation, hypothesis testing, MVP, user research).
- Have experience with 1->100 phases of company building (process design, hiring, team management, scaling complexities).
- Have great stakeholder management skills and be extremely influential.
- Be a ninja at building alignment by influence (not by authority).
- Have strong first principle thinking, ability to navigate from ambiguity to clarity, should ask the right questions and get to answers fast.
- Be well networked and know how to learn fast from the right people by asking the right questions.
Everyone at Leap is entrepreneurial, moves fast and operates with extreme ownership.
There is minimal management and extreme autonomy.
If the above defines you, you will fit in snugly.
What is Leap?
Leap is a global student mobility platform that empowers students’ aspirations for a global career and education
We have built this and this and this
We work at the exciting intersection of fintech & edtech
And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students
How far along are we?
We are the leaders in our space by a mile
We are backed by Sequoia, Jungle Ventures, Owl Ventures & Harvard
Read the latest fundraise news here
Who are we as people?
We have a lean, rockstar team.
We have come this far with a lean team because we love to increase the talent density with every new member we add. Yes, we are more picky than the usual company.
We hire slowly and deliberately
You can meet our founders here -> Arnav Kumar and Vaibhav Singh
Arnav tweets here
What will you be doing?
We are now building our leadership team and would love to engage
This is a great time to join the rocketship and participate in the upside -
Broadly,
- You will have tearing-your-hair level complex & challenging problems to solve
- With massive upside if you solve them
- In a super fast paced environment that will challenge you
- With enough resources to be audacious
- And mentorship from an experienced founding team
Your move :)
- Having a busy week? - Simply apply here
- Want to skip the queue? - Take out a few mins and write a standout email to us at anjali.mishra@leapfinance.com
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