Job Description:

The Role:

- This is a senior, high-impact leadership role responsible for shaping the program strategy and portfolio direction across key growth areas. The role owns the end-to-end lifecycle of new and existing programs - from opportunity identification and strategic prioritization to scale, optimization, and long-term sustainability.

The incumbent will operate as a thought partner to senior leadership, drive cross-functional alignment, and play a critical role in determining where and how the business invests for growth.

Key Responsibilities:

Portfolio & Growth Strategy (Primary Ownership)

- Own the program portfolio strategy, including identification, prioritization, and sequencing of new program opportunities.

- Lead market opportunity assessment, demand forecasting, learner segmentation, and competitive intelligence to support investment decisions.

- Define multi-year portfolio roadmaps aligned with business growth, revenue, and margin objectives.

- Drive decisions on scale-up, redesign, or sunset of programs based on performance and strategic fit.

Strategic New Product Development

- Provide strategic leadership for new program creation, ensuring strong differentiation, academic rigor, and market relevance.

- Shape program positioning, pricing logic, cohort sizing, and go-to-market hypotheses in partnership with Commercial and Marketing leaders.

- Ensure programs are built with a scalable, repeatable, and profitable model from the outset.

Senior Stakeholder & Partner Leadership

- Act as the primary strategic interface with academic partners & faculty

- Influence and align senior stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Delivery, Product, and Finance.

Data, Insights & Governance

- Establish structured frameworks for go/no-go decisions, portfolio reviews, and post- launch performance evaluation.

- Leverage data and insights to guide pricing, investment, and risk trade-offs.

- Ensure governance discipline around program launches, changes, and exits.

Leadership & Capability Building

- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing program strategy / NPD team.

- Set quality standards for research, strategy, and execution rigor.

- Actively develop future leaders within the team.

Requirements

- 6-12+ years of experience in strategy, consulting, product, program management, analytics, or business leadership roles.

- Strong foundation in management, analytics, economics, engineering, or related fields.

- MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification strongly preferred.

- Strong commercial acumen with comfort in ambiguity and complex decision-making environments.

- Balances growth ambition with execution discipline.

- Strong executive presence with the ability to challenge, align, and influence.

- Passionate about building scalable, high-impact learning products.

Work Location - Gurgaon & Bangalore