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, here

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 hiring for an Executive Assistant to the founders at Leap. The primary expectation from this role is to provide real leverage to the founders and make sure that they are insanely productive at what they do. Because productive founders set the benchmark for productivity and performance for the company.

The charter for this role will include:

Perform tasks such as managing calendars, planning travel, and other relevant administrative duties.
Prompt coordination among various stakeholders for both internal and external meetings.
Follow up on action items and ensure timely closure of all actionables.
Leading and ensuring the success of vital cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
Tracking monthly milestones and setting up reviews for the same across all functions.

Ideal Persona would:

3-4+ relevant years of experience as an EA to the founder or senior leadership team.
Extremely resourceful and great at problem solving.
Hands-on, adept at multitasking.
Exceptional organizational skills and impeccable attention to detail.
High degree of professionalism in dealing with diverse groups of people, including Board members, senior executives, internal team, community leaders, donors.

In summary this role is an extended arm of the founders - being the chief internal coordinator, chief enforcer, and chief follow-upper to ensure that the company is running at a really fast pace and ticking like clockwork.

Life @ Leap

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.

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