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)
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About the Role:
In this role you will lead learning programs from onboarding to leadership development, spot and fix skill gaps, drive digital learning, and manage a high-performing L&D team all while making sure training actually moves the needle for the business.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Conduct learning needs assessment to identify, plan, design/deploy and evaluate scalable onboarding and learning development programs
Design and deliver onboarding, career pathing and leadership development programs
Work in partnership with peers and other functional heads to identify key performance,
skills & knowledge gaps, prioritizing actions and creating business- driven development
solutions
Identify, analyse and rectify operational issues in coordination with immediate supervisors
Drive digital learning initiatives among counsellors, senior counsellors and other team
members
Conduct post training periodic assessments, ghost audits and evaluations
Prioritize impending gaps and create scalable solutions to address the needs
Facilitate, Organize & schedule regular training sessions
Evaluate business impact of L&D initiatives & optimize learning solutions as per need
Manage a team of L&D consultants & associates and be responsible for the unit’s
performance
Drive shortlisting ability of the counselling organisation to expected levels.
Drive the initial performance of new joiners, minimum activation.
Train and scale up low performers.
Lead and manage the team of L&D managers.
Ideal Persona would have:
7-10 + years of relevant experience any industry
Consultative Selling Experience is Mandate
Excellent presentation and communication skills
Prior experience leading digital learning initiatives, implementing or administering
training in Learning Management System/LMS
Prior experience in managing a team of 4-6
Expertise in assessing learning needs & knowledge gap among various departments and
design remedial training programs
Ability to conduct, monitor and implement training programs across the organization
Ability to design and implement effective learning and development experiences.
Superior technical skills & proficiency in using L&D tools
Good to have Certifications such as PIER / QUAC / ICEF/ BC / AAERI
Experience in a fast-growing start-up is plus
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.
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.