Airblack - Product Manager - Zudo

Position: Product Manager, Zudo

Location: In Office (Gurgaon)

Experience: 4-10 years of hands-on experience in building consumer products at high growth startups / ex-entrepreneurs preferred

CTC Range: Market- level CTC + meaningful ESOPs (high ownership)

About Airblack & Zudo:

- Airblack is India's largest alternate skilling platform, helping people become microentrepreneurs and creators.

- Our mission is to help the next 100 million people in the workforce get access to meaningful opportunities.

- We currently operate in sectors such as beauty, fashion, nutrition, digital & home businesses, impacting over 1M learners every month.

- Our flagship school in the beauty space is India's #1 Beauty Academy brand, with an alumni base of over 40,000 entrepreneurs in 300+ cities in India.

- Our apps consistently rank in top 10 education apps in India with 1M+ users and 40M+ minutes of learning content being consumed every month.

- Airblack has raised Rs.100cr+ from marquee investors such as Elevation Capital, Info Edge Ventures, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Blume Founders Fund and Better Capital, and leading angels such as Vidit (Meesho), Kunal (CRED), Deepinder (Zomato), Harshit & Shashank (Razorpay) and so on.

- One of our new products, Zudo, is now India's fastest growing apps in the skilling / content space.

- Built with the mission of helping people get access to meaningful opportunities, it offers microcourses across Social media, Beauty, Fashion and other digital businesses.

Few numbers:

- 10M downloads / 1M MAU / growing 100% QoQ

- Over 50,000 businesses already launched in beauty / fashion / nutrition / digital sectors

What would you be doing?

- Own the product roadmap for a rocketship growing 100% MoM.

- We're at 1M MAU and need to hit 5M in 6 months without breaking things.

- AI-powered product strategy: Define and ship AI-first features such as - personalized learning paths, smart recommendations, conversational tutors and automated assessments.

- Drive hyper-growth metrics: Own user growth and engagement.

- Drive improvements in user retention across all time horizons.

- Optimize free-to-paid conversion.

- Reduce customer acquisition costs through product-led growth while increasing lifetime value.

- Run experiments at scale: Ship experiments across onboarding, discovery, engagement and monetization.

- Build a robust testing framework for rapid prototyping and testing.

- Scale the platform: Build creator tools and AI-assisted content workflows to 10x content velocity.

- Design marketplace dynamics - matching algorithms, quality scoring, discovery, creator incentives.

- Expand to 30+ categories.

- Create features that improve with scale (network effects, data moats, content flywheel).

- Lead cross-functional teams: Work directly with founders on strategy and OKRs.

- Lead pods of 8-10 people across engineering, design, analytics, growth, content.

- Establish product culture: user obsession, bias for speed, data-driven decisions, extreme ownership.

What makes you a suitable candidate?

Core background:

- 4-10 years in product, with 3+ years at high-growth consumer startups (spaces such as consumer AI, edtech, social/content, travel, fintech, marketplace preferred)

- Proven 0- 1 and 1- 100 experience - shipped products from scratch and scaled to millions

- Track record of impact with numbers: "increased retention by 35%", "drove $2M ARR",

- Built and shipped AI/ML features (recommendations, personalization, NLP, LLM applications)

- Have done cross-functional execution in the past: aligned eng, design, growth, content around shared goals

- Strong preference for ex-entrepreneurs or ex-software engineers looking to transition to product.

- Strong preference for Tier-1 education background.

- Deep understanding of Tier 2/3 India users (lived experience or strong empathy)

Expertise:

- Can understand system architecture, and discuss technical trade-offs with engineers

- Strong data skills - write SQL, analyze data, understand statistics and A/B testing

- Expert in analytics tools (Mixpanel/Amplitude), SQL, experimentation platforms

- Hypothesis-driven approach to features and experiments

- Deep understanding of unit economics, LTV:CAC, payback periods

- Mobile-first DNA with iOS/Android expertise

About the Team at Airblack:

- We are a lean team (under 30 members) with a high curiosity quotient and talent density.

- We like to partner with highly ambitious people who like to set high benchmarks for themselves, and have backed it up with actions in the past.