MPL Gaming - Strategy Manager - ISB/IIM/XLRI

MPL is Asia's largest and fastest growing mobile e-sports platform. Our mission is to enable global e-sports competitions across all mobile titles at scale with the largest prize pools globally, the largest global audiences, and the largest number of concurrent users playing and streaming. We have a strong leadership team, a fantastic culture and we're backed by a marquee set of investors including Sequoia Capital and SIG. Today we have over 60 million registered users in India and over 3.5 million in Indonesia, which are growing rapidly month over month. We plan to expand beyond India and Indonesia in the near future.

Our brand ambassadors are Indian Cricket Captain Virat Kohli, Actor Tamannaah Bhatia, and we have been endorsed by the likes of Indian Cricketer KL Rahul and actors Manoj Bajpai and Prakash Raj. We have also sponsored two IPL teams - KKR and RCB - and the Irish Men's Cricket Team.

About the team: The strategy and operations team works closely with different business verticals and functions to define and drive strategic priorities for the company

Key job responsibilities

- Define strategic goals for different parts of the business, and roadmap to achieve them

- Coordinate efforts across product, marketing and operations to execute this roadmap

- Define key business performance metrics and targets

- Set up org and processes to enable different business verticals/functions

- Launch and program manage strategic initiatives with key stakeholders

- Drive change management and business transformation efforts

Preferred Qualifications & skills:

- MBA is mandatory (preference given to top B schools - ISB, IIMs, XLRI etc.)

- 2-4 years of experience in strategy consulting (e.g. McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or corporate strategy roles driving high impact client-facing projects

- Strong problem solving and capability to structure ambiguous problems

- Proven experience of working with senior management and cross-functional teams

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Outcome focused, with data and metrics driven decision making

- Self driven and ability to work independently