About us

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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 an Associate Program Manager to join the central business strategy team at Leap.

As an APRM your role will be to work on key projects that will unlock the next phase of growth for Leap. This will involve analytical thinking, problem solving and working with different teams to make things happen. The role will require you to operate in ambiguity, do stakeholder management and work on complex but exciting business problems.

The charter for this role will include:

Work on multiple key projects across the company, which can include 0-1 projects (user research, market research, building and concluding experiments, hypothesis testing etc)
Working on optimization projects - which will require you to think through process design, make frameworks, do complex problem solving and set new benchmarks
Collaborate with cross-functional internal stakeholders in marketing, tech, and product to execute central projects
Work on user experience across all the projects - ensuring our users have a superlative experience

Ideal Persona would:

Have 2-4 years of experience in fast-paced startups, working on projects and building things from scratch
Know how to keep everyone on the same page and manage stakeholders like a pro
Be great at breaking down tough problems and coming up with smart solutions
Be comfortable in situations where things aren’t always clear? Perfect!

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.

Associate Program Manager