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EIR - Content Strategy

Bengaluru, Karnataka   |   Full Time

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)

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About the Role:

We are looking for an EIR- Content Strategy to lead Leap’s content business. 

This role is a mix of Strategy and Execution in Content. 

This is hands on, Individual contributor role reporting directly to the founders. 

This is a high impact, high visibility, high growth opportunity.

Roles and responsibilities:

  1. You will be setting up a stand alone business unit at Leap with full ownership, autonomy and decision making authority.

  2. Define content strategy - what content buckets to go after, how to build the content engine, and how to crack distribution.

  3. Set up the scalable processes for topic selection.

  4. Set up the scalable processes for fast content production.

  5. Build and own AI native workflows for content production and distribution.

Ideal Persona would:

  1. Have  held a key role  in a content -first, content- heavy business.

- We are looking for candidates where content marketing & content strategy & content-led-branding was front and center, a key component of the business model, not an also-ran, fringe department

- Ideally someone who has seen both 0->1 and 1->100 scaling of a content -first business

  1. Have a deep obsession with Social Media algorithms (Instagram, tiktok, linkedin, youtube)  and how they work (what they like, what they promote, how to hack the algorithm)

  2. Ideally have a well-enaged follower base of at least 2000 followers on at least one of their personal social media accounts

  3. Have experience in setting up processes for fast and repeatable content creation at scale.

  4. Have a deep curiosity about people, their behaviour and how to capture their attention.

  5. They should be able to figure out a content strategy which resonates with users while being in line with the company’s  brand.

Everyone at Leap is entrepreneurial, moves fast and operates with extreme ownership. 

There is minimal management and extreme autonomy. 

If the above defines you, you will fit in snugly.

What is Leap?

Leap is a global student mobility platform that empowers students’ aspirations for a global career and education.

We have built this and this and this 

We work at the exciting intersection of fintech & edtech
And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students!

How far along are we?

We are the leaders in our space by a mile!

We are backed by Sequoia, Jungle Ventures, Owl Ventures & Harvard!

Read the latest fundraise news here 

Who are we as people?

We have a lean, rockstar team. 
We have come this far with a lean team because we love to increase the talent density with every new member we add. Yes, we are more picky than the usual company. 
We hire slowly and deliberately 

You can meet our founders here ->  Arnav Kumar  and Vaibhav Singh
Arnav tweets here

What will you be doing?

We are now building our leadership team and would love to engage 
This is a great time to join the rocketship and participate in the upside - 

Broadly,

  • You will have tearing-your-hair level complex & challenging problems to solve

  • With massive upside if you solve them

  • In a super fast paced environment that will challenge you 

  • With enough resources to be audacious 

  • And mentorship from an experienced founding team 


Your move !:)

  • Having a busy week? - Simply apply here 

  • Want to skip the queue?  - Take out a few mins and write a standout email to us at [email protected]

Life @ Leap

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Mutual Respect

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

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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

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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.

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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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