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 a Program Manager/Associate Program Manager at Leap. You will work on charters which can have an orbit-change impact on Leap’s trajectory.

The charter for this role will include:

Working on transformation projects for the company. You will do multiple ‘Strategize - Build - Operate - Transfer’ projects in a year.
Augmenting the business unit leaders in solving key problems. You will act as a consultant to help multiple business lines and plug any gaps needed for the business to succeed.
Work on open ended projects such as market research, opportunity sizing, user research, identifying M&A opportunities.
Do whatever else is critical for the business to win.

Ideal Persona would:

Have 2 -5 years of total experience.
Someone experienced in a high growth startup, ideally exposed to the 0-1 and 1-100 journeys.
Have experience with 0 -> 1 phase of company building (rapid experimentation, hypothesis testing, MVP, user research).
Have experience with 1->100 phases of company building (process design, hiring, team management, scaling complexities).
Have great stakeholder management skills and be extremely influential.
Be a ninja at building alignment by influence (not by authority).
Have strong first principle thinking, ability to navigate from ambiguity to clarity, should ask the right questions and get to answers fast.
Be well networked and know how to learn fast from the right people by asking the right questions.

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.

Program Manager/ Associate Program Manager