Manager - Strategy & Operations

About the Role:

The role is in the Central Strategy team at InMobi. This team crafts and drives the Group’s strategy across several levels – overall corporate strategy, business-unit strategy, and the review and operating architecture that aligns execution to both – and drives strategic partnerships that act as accelerators for that strategy. You will be a core member of this team (part of the CEO's office) and report into the Strategy Lead (Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations). You will work closely with business-unit leadership, with exposure to the Founder & CEO (Naveen Tewari).

You will operate with the direct sponsorship and air cover from the CEO’s office - which is how you’ll engage business-unit leaders and their teams, and drive outcomes through influence rather than formal authority.

You will be based out of Bangalore. We operate in a work-from-office setup and encourage everyone to be in office 5 days a week. This role is a strong platform for leadership and business-ownership roles down-the-line – giving you an end-to-end view of how a company with multiple businesses works across domains, along with visibility and access to its founders and leaders.

What you’ll be doing:

Strategy & New bets

• Build deep, first-principles understanding of a new opportunity area, frame the problem, and synthesize a coherent, executive-ready strategy
• Land bets internally – building leadership buy-in, organizational will, and the case to commit resources behind them
• Work with business-unit teams to stand up and program-manage pilots – as PMO, and in some cases as direct owner responsible for execution

Current strategy & operating rhythm

• Help run the operating rhythm of the CEO's office for the Group's current strategy - supporting the annual and quarterly planning process and setting up the right metrics across businesses -ensuring alignment with the overall strategy
• Design the structures, mechanisms and metrics that keep long-term direction and short-term focus balanced - and drive execution and governance as PMO across business-unit teams to keep priority initiatives on track

Strategic partnerships

• Build and advance a portfolio of strategic partnerships that act as accelerators and enablers of the strategy – researching partners outside-in, shaping win-win propositions, and program-managing them from first conversation through to launch

Who you are:

You are entrepreneurial to the core – a fast learner who can get on top of a complex, unfamiliar area quickly, build a credible hypothesis (often creative), and test it. You have a strong bias for action and the resolve to take things to a logical conclusion. You're driven, and you work through influence rather than authority - earning trust fast and the standing to be a real thought-partner. You hold two modes at once: thinking expansively about what's possible, then bringing the discipline to turn it into goals, plans, and results. And you stay sharp when priorities shift - which, in the CEO's office, they will - with an optimism that brings people with you.

What you need to succeed:

• 3–5 years of experience, with a minimum of 2 years working directly with senior stakeholders
• Prior experience in Management Consulting (MBB), Corporate Strategy (especially at Tech Product companies), Chief-of-Staff roles, Product Management or running your own company would be preferred
• Exceptional analytical and structured-thinking skills – the ability to ramp on complex new areas quickly, build credible hypotheses, and test them fast
• A creative, entrepreneurial builder’s instinct with a strong bias for action – comfortable operating well outside business-as-usual and doing what it takes to reach a logical conclusion
• Compelling storytelling and communication – in person and in writing / slides
• The relationship skills to build trust with BU teams and influence without authority and the temperament to thrive in ambiguity while continuously structuring clarity for yourself

Why Join Us?

You will help shape the direction for one of India’s biggest global contenders, by working closely with senior leadership and founders. We value autonomy, collaboration, technical innovation, and results-oriented thinking. InMobi’s culture is all about rewarding excellence – so there are fantastic opportunities for the right candidate!