Stanza Living - Chief of Staff - Strategy - Founders Team

Stanza Living is India's largest and fastest growing tech-enabled managed accommodation company that delivers a hospitality-led living experience to migrant students and young working professionals across India. We have a full-stack business model that focuses on design, development and delivery of daily living solutions tailored to the

young consumers- lifestyle. From smartly-planned residences, host of amenities and services for hassle-free living to exclusive community engagement programs - everything is seamlessly integrated through technology to ensure the highest consumer delight.

Today, we are:

- India's largest managed accommodation company with over 50,000 beds under management across 16 cities

- Most capitalized player in the managed accommodation space, backed by global marquee investors - Falcon Edge, Equity International, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Accel Partners

- Recognized as the Best Real Estate Tech company across the Globe in 2020 by leading analysis agency, Tracxn

- LinkedIn Top Startup to Work for - 2019

The Market:

The managed accommodation market size across India's top 30 cities in India is expected to grow more than 4x in the next decade - from USD 20 billion today to USD 80 billion by 2030. Today, Stanza Living is the market leader in the space by a fair margin with more than 65% market share in the student housing space and 32%+ market share in the overall organized managed accommodation industry. The industry in India is evolving at a

rapid pace, with investments from national and international institutional investors bringing in a large amount of capital. As the business evolves, the organized managed accommodation industry is expected to transform the face of the rental housing market across urban centers.

Responsibilities:

- You will work closely with the founder and leadership team on key strategic and business initiatives. This is a high impact role, where you will work across functions to unlock growth for Stanza, improve efficiency and profitability.

- This is an inside look at how a startup operates and scales, with the ability to impact and influence that trajectory.

- Build a deep understanding of the business and market to identify strategic priorities

- Identify key success metrics and maintain dashboards to track progress and determine areas of intervention

- Work with the Founders and department leadership to optimize efficiency and productivity of current operations

- Working with Founders & key CXOs to identify key growth & transformation areas for the organization and crafting a project plan to achieve desired goals within defined timelines

- Helping the Founders with regular business and department reviews as well as regular monitoring of the project/initiative

- Working closely with key influencers and decision makers across the organization to shape positive outcomes and impact business growth

- Own zero to one projects and new initiatives; from research and validation, to transitioning to functional ownership and scale-up

- Drive quarterly progress and monitor them regularly through weekly reviews, investor updates and board meetings.

Who We Are Looking For:

- Extremely high ownership, self-starter ability to get hands dirty, and work in a constantly changing and fast-growing environment

- Establish collaborative and trusting relationships with the business's key internal leaders and stakeholders in order to ensure that there is a free flow of ideas and information across the business

- First principle thinking and strong problem solving

What Can You Expect:

- A phenomenal work environment, with extremely high ownership and growth opportunities

- Opportunity to shape a potential unicorn

- Quick iterations and deployments - fail-fast attitude

- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies

- Access to a world-class mentorship network