Not seen anyone with 1-2 years of experience (irrespective of colleges) add much value except for doing (smarter) secretarial work for CXOs.

How does your typical day look like in a strategy and ops role?

Consultant

Corporate Strategist

Bunch of stuff- investor and management presentations and updates, program managing multiple teams and initiatives, planning for the year and quarters, managing resources and ensuring they are aware of the vision etc, internal brand building, and most importantly, getting work done by others

Strategy & Operations

these positions are filled by ex consultants right

A lot of startups that are losing money tend to have a lot of strategy roles run by ISB/IIM folks. What do they really do? Can they really do any sales or is it just a strategy?

What do people do in Strategy Roles in Startups?

What do people do in Strategy Roles in Startups?- Grapevine

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

I'm in business strategy and majorly worked across different startups

When looking for a new role, HRs tell me they are looking for specialized experience, or my experiences do not count as they are less than 2 years (in each company)

I like being a generalist, I have learnt much more than I think I would have in a specialist role

What do you guys think?

I have 4YOE, currently in a seed stage startup

Specialization vs. Generalist debate

Founder

Hello everyone,

Saw quite some people doing AMAs on this platform from VCs to Engineers, but nobody from Founder's Office roles.

Knowing that this role is somewhat new in the job market, not many people still know a lot about it. Shoot your questions, would answer them to the best of my capacity.

Background: Worked in the FO role for 2 FMCG brands, before joining a Fintech where I am working right now. Graduated from BIT, Mesra in 2021, but started working alongside my graduation coz of COVID.

AMA - Working in Founder's Office from past 3 years.

Founder’s Office

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What is the salary range offered for strategy and investor relations in late stage startups?

Salary for Strategy and Investor Relations

Analyst

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

How much importance is given to Finance head in strategy decision making/strategy planning in your companies?

Finance folks at startup

Director Finance

Trying to get a salary estimate for strategy roles. Is it fair to say 55-60lpa is the norm for someone with 6 YOE? I am referring to series B+ startups in the Indian ecosystem.

Strategy profile pay in Indian startups for 6 YOE?

Product Manager

I was super curious for product management roles and switch to startups was one of easy bets, my current role( 3 yr work ex as implementation consultant)  in B2B  involved customer interaction and working on requirements on OOTB product,but back then i didn't appear many interviews, i wasn't actively applying but with recent scenario of all layoffs and startups fundings, what should be a good strategy now? Need suggestions from experienced folks

Product Roles

Associate Product Manager

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Please share thoughts on the roles of business strategy team in global manufacturing companies, requirements for this function and can an individual with 9 years of experience in supply chain transfer to this function? Does an weekend MBA from ISB / IIM help?

Need insights on business strategy role

Sourcing

As the title suggests, I often wonder what is the natural progression for people who join startups in Chief of Staff or even Founder's office roles? Do they move to a specialized vertical internally? Or do they move to other startups in CoS roles? Or they do their own venture (I like to believe this is still less likely). Have this thought because a lot of Tier 1 MBA, MBB consultant profiles have been moving to these roles and it really makes me wonder what path would the careers of these top talents take?

Future of Chief of Staff roles

Are there any organisations hiring for Senior Sales Operations/ Development/Strategy roles. Experience around 15 years. Do chip in. Current org is getting restructured on a massive level lots of people getting affected.

Senior Sales Strategy Role

Hello Everyone, 

I am a 2018 BTech (NIT) pass out and  2022 IIM pass out with a total of 2.2 years of Workex (1.2 yrs post-MBA) and currently working as an Associate Product Manager. I am not really enjoying my role and I feel Product Management is not suitable for me because of multiple reasons some of them being,


1. I am doing issue resolutions rather than problem-solving which I love to do.

2. I am not very much interested in driving technical discussions or solving technical challenges in the process of Product Development which is the case in my current role. 

3. I want to be part of a Business role where I can leverage the knowledge I have gained during my MBA and work on some problem statements related to the core businesses of the company. 

4. There is no skin in the game of a PM compared to Devs, QAs, and Designers. As a PM I feel I am just delegating, prioritizing, and following up with the requirements. Most of my learnings are around managerial aspects and not business knowledge. 

5. I want to be a part of business roles where I can go deeper into problems and come up with my recommendations/thoughts on them. 

I am looking for new roles where Strategy, Analysis and Core Business Problem solving are involved. I am really not sure what kind of roles are these. 

Please help me with the roles I can explore and how to approach the job search for such kinds of roles. 
Thanks In Advance.

Need Advice - Job Role Switch.

Hi everyone,
I'm working in a pre-sales role at IBM. I completed MBA in 2023 and I feel that IBM is bit slow and bureacratic. I was hoping I would be able to switch to a startup. But I have a few questions -

1. Do startups pay well for MBA based roles too or is it only the dev team that get paid well? My comp at IBM is 25 LPA and I would like to be within similar range.

2. How do you find primarily about jobs in startups? Is LinkedIn the best source or are there other more effective methods to know about openings?

3. Do startups hire MBA folks with ~1 years of experience in MNCs or do they primarily look for fresh out of college people only? Is profile switch possible (i.e. from sales to finance/operations/supply chain etc)

Jobs for MBA freshers in startups

Sales

Hi folks, looking seriously for a job switch in a strategy role.

Highlights about myself:
-> I have ~ 3.5 years of work ex.
-> Entrepreneurial stint in the wealth management space where we were trying to build an AI assistant to automate everyone' s personal finance. 
-> MBA From ISB post closing the startup due to regulatory slowdown 
-> Wanted to get a strategy/ PM role in the campus placement but, due to market conditions, got a job as program manager in a lending startup. I had high hopes from it but it turned out to be utter disappointment on many levels. 

I know the market is not great right now but I am optimistic that it's not that bad. 

Any help or referral would be really appreciated:)

Ex fintech entrepreneur and ISB MBA grad looking for a strategy role

Product Owner

Are the Lead - Founder's Office/Chief of Strategy roles worth it for someone with 9y experience in Business Operations? What can be suitable exit options here?

Founder's Office - Worth it for Experienced folks?

Sales Leader

I was working  as head of data and analytics in  Zepto , Swiggy , flipkart now is razorpay. 
I felt work is of very poorly quality in most Indian startup , no idea of kpi, useless machine learning model , no investment in infrastructure. I think no point in joining any Indian startup as very few founder value data 
Now I have worked in Walmart and Citibank , core strategic decisions  happens in USA and headquarters so Indian office is only pleasing the hq with support work 
Now analytics service like tiger fractal again work is to do sales bring any work and add to top line 
Witch company even more shit show 
So I am delusional and thinking of quitting the data and analytics  field or build something of my own 
Data and Ai in India is just to show off and get investor money and load the pnl without return

Where to go to get good work in Ai and ml

Data Scientist

I want to get into a program management kind of role or something like strategy

Can the good Samaritans help me 

Also how do you generally apply to jobs ?

Which startups are hiring ?

Growth Manager

Hello everyone,

I'm Varun, the co-founder of Mesa School of Business. We’re Asia’s first startup focused business school focused on fostering the next generation of startup leaders in India.

Prior to Mesa, I was a Sr. Product Manager at Amazon in Seattle, and did my MBA from Kellogg School of Management.

I'd love to chat with you folks about my journey in building Mesa, my thoughts on higher education, 0-to-1 building, amongst other things.

Ask me anything! :)
I'll be back at 5 pm and start answering.

I'm Varun, Co-Founder at Mesa School of Business. Ask me anything!

I used to work as an analyst with a VC fund prior to this startup stint. I chose this role because I would get exposure to how debt is treated in the startup ecosystem. When I was on boarded, it was clear that I needed to scout my deals, analyse the documents and see how things go through till the money is disbursed to the startup. Now, a new head has been hired who is a sales person. He expects us to not curate deals but make 150 calls a day and just play the game of quantity and not quality. It’s been not even 3 months here (I have performed better than the people who joined with me or maybe even a couple of months before). 

Q. How should I tackle this because I am not a sales person at all  

Q. How should I approach the founder, who is fairly egoistic and does not like it when people do not agree with his ideas?

How to tackle a job description problem in a Startup

I have switched job from tech role to strategy role at a reputed company after 6 years of working. 

Any me anything.

Tech to non tech role switch- AMA

Program Manager

Hi folks 
Anyone know any startups who are looking to hire into strategy/ Corporate development roles

A bit about me 
Currently working in FP&A>1 but I would like to transition to a startup preferably in the above mentioned domain
Have been leading changes in the business I see , bringing it to break-even, doing transition for new business, working on contracts negotiation, working on pricing for new & scope extension, implementing new ways to report data to actually drive actions 

Would love to have a chat.

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