Entrepreneur in Residence

**About us**:
We are building this and this and this
In short, we are building the platform to drive global careers for millennials from emerging economies We work at the exciting intersection of the 2 hottest trends around - edtech & fintech And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students

**Founder Profile**:
Arnav Kumar is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. Leap is his second company and he has raised more than $30M in capital for his startups. In his last role, he was a VC investor with SAIF Partners (Now Elevation Capital), which is an early investor in paytm, meesho, urban company, unacademy and many other unicorns. He thinks and tweets about Product, Business Models and Company Building

Vaibhav Singh is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. He spent his first 6 years at DeutscheBank, across Singapore & Sydney to manage a $3Bn flow book. He has built 2 fintech startups before, as a founding member of CapitalFloat and Incred, both pioneering businesses valued >$500Mn The Leap team has a fine balance of industry experience (edtech, fintech, study abroad) and technical skills (engineering, product, design)

**About the Role**:
We are looking for an experienced entrepreneur to join as EIR at Leap. The EIR 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 founder, 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.

**Mutual Respect**:
We love people who are ‘relentlessly resourceful’. Find your way out. Focus on the possibilities instead of the problems.

**Bias for action**:
We take calculated risks backed by data and information available and encourage fail fast to find the best solutions as soon as possible

**Learn & get better**:
Continuous learning and improvement is the key. We don’t stop learning. We treat feedback as a gift and as an opportunity to get better.

**Growth mindset**:
We operate with a growth mindset and not a mindset of fear or judgement. You are in control of your own ability to learn and improve. We love Resilience.