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 looking for stellar Business Development managers to help students plan their end-to-end study abroad journeys.

Key Responsibilities:
● Contact potential Institutions and establish relationships for long term GTM planning
● Build Brand in Colleges/Institutions & University in the assigned territory
● Drive lead acquisition from educational institutions by executing GTM activities
● Research, plan, and execute activation of new channels of lead acquisition

Qualifications:
● Ideal candidates will have 3-5 years of experience in the overseas education domain
● Experience in working with Institutions and demonstrated excellent relationship management skills.
● Strong existing network of contacts among Colleges/Universities, Educational Institutions and test prep institutes
● Strong bias for action, and ability to work independently toward stated goals with minimal oversight.
● Proven ability to communicate effectively with senior management both internally and externally.
● Proven ability to create and execute complex, multi-partner deals with Educational Institutions

Locations:

Bangalore

Chennai

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.

Business Development Manager (Bangalore and Chennai)