Business Manager

Business Manager

About Lokal:

Access & Empowerment for Bharat through AI and Local Language Internet.

Lokal is India's largest regional content and services platform, built for the 500 million internet users from tier 2 towns.

Founded by IIT alumni, Lokal started in 2018 to address the lack of relevant local content and now goes beyond content to solve real, everyday problems of Bharat. Growing as a house of apps, Lokal is evolving into an AI-driven discovery and access platform—connecting users in tier 2 India with the experts, tools, and knowledge they've historically lacked access to:

• Lokal Matrimony – Location-based matchmaking apps focused on hyperlocal compatibility
• Lokal Jobs – Hyperlocal job discovery platform connecting blue- and grey-collar workers with nearby opportunities
• GyanTV – Skill-based learning in regional languages (stocks, photography, small business & more)
• Dostt – Make new friends through voice chats, games, and real, authentic conversations
• Eaze – A safe space to explore emotional well-being via community-driven support
• AstroLokal – Instant access to trusted astrologers through audio and chat
  And more – 10 new apps in testing & exploration across agricultural advisory, legal advisory, financial guidance, and AI-powered personal assistants
  

About Business Manager :

We're looking for a talented individual for the role of Business Manager to finalize the next monetizable use case, build supply from scratch to launch the product in market and be responsible for revenue and PnL for this business in long term.

Key Responsibilities:

• Market sizing, aggressive experimentation and thought experiments to figure out the monetizable use cases and launch strategy.
• Figure out operations and supply strategy, build supply from scratch.
• Making revenue projections and tracking Gross Margin, costs closely.
• Pricing, discounts and Initiatives for revenue maximization, costs reduction.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 year of experience in Founders office, EIR.
• roles(Entrepreneur in Residence), product management, consulting, strategy.
• Has to be good with data(data retrieval and analysis).
• Startup experience is an add on.
• B.Tech or MBA from Tier I colleges is good to have.

Why Join Us?

We're scaling fast with strong fundamentals, on a mission to empower millions through AI and access. At Lokal, you'll take ownership from day one, build for real impact, and help redefine the roadmap of how Bharat connects to opportunities, knowledge, and experts.

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the business strategy of a fast-growing product.
• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Work with an extremely passionate, ambitious and super skilled team.
• Opportunity to grow multiple times in exposure and experience in a short period of time.

We are not the best fit for you if:

• You are satisfied with where you are in life and do not want to push to learn/grow further.
• You are fundamentally risk-averse.
• You like working in a structured environment or being explicitly told what to do at every step and not okay with non deterministic outcomes.
• You are looking for fixed working hours and not comfortable with a challenging line of work.

We will the best fit if you have the following qualities:

• Ownership - Complete ownership of the problem statement, arriving at the right solutioning with data driven or well weighed insights and driving the execution.
• Growth mindset - ability to take up bigger, increasing responsibilities as the product grows.
• Proceeding with a no bias approach - Hunches and intuition based decisions are also fine but should be well weighed and called out.