Co-Founder, Director and Investor

Job Title: Chief of Staff (AI & Data-Driven Strategy) 

Company: StarApps Studio 

Experience: 4+ years 

Location:Pune (On-site) 

About StarApps Studio 

StarApps Studio is a fast-growing Shopify app development company building high-impact ecommerce SaaS products for global merchants. We operate in a high-ownership, fast-execution environment where data, clarity, and speed matter.

Role Overview 

We are looking for a highly analytical and operational Chief of Staff to serve as the right-hand strategic partner to our founders and leadership team. This role is a force multiplier—you will drive executive execution, improve high-level decision-making, and lead strategic initiatives across the company. This requires strong analytical thinking, AI fluency, and the operational rigor to turn visionary ideas into measurable results.

Key Responsibilities

• Executive Strategy & Alignment: Act as a strategic partner to founders by managing business priorities and driving key organizational deliverables.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Own the execution of high-impact cross-functional initiatives across Product, Growth, Support, and Operations.
• Business Intelligence: Build dashboards, trackers, and comprehensive reports to empower data-backed leadership decision-making.
• AI & Operational Excellence: Leverage AI tools (ChatGPT, automation, analytics) to aggressively optimize workflows and scale internal productivity.
• Operating Rhythm: Drive the cadence of leadership by preparing strategic meeting agendas, synthesizing notes, and ensuring relentless closure on action items.
• Market & Product Strategy: Conduct deep-dive market, competitor, and product research within the Shopify and SaaS ecosystem to inform strategic direction.
• Stakeholder Management: Drive seamless communication and alignment between internal teams and external partners.
• Trusted Advisor: Maintain strict confidentiality and high ownership while handling ambiguous, complex business challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Chief of Staff, Strategy Consultant, or in a similar strategic role.
• Strong data-driven mindset with proven experience using Excel/Google Sheets, dashboards, and reporting tools.
• High proficiency with AI tools like ChatGPT, Notion AI, automation workflows, and prompt-based productivity.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills paired with strong stakeholder management abilities.
• Proven ability to operate in a fast-paced startup environment, taking high ownership of outcomes.
• Elite organizational skills, sharp attention to detail, and the ability to multitask seamlessly across competing priorities.
• Experience in ecommerce, SaaS, the Shopify ecosystem, or tech startups is a strong advantage.
• Comfortable working directly with founders and independently solving ambiguous, unstructured problems.

What We Offer

• Direct exposure to startup leadership and strategic decision-making.
• A high-impact role with a significant ownership and growth trajectory.
• The opportunity to work at the cutting-edge intersection of AI, ecommerce, and product execution.
• Competitive compensation with performance-driven growth opportunities.

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About the company

We are an AI diffusion company. We partner with midmarket companies in asset-heavy, regulated industries to co-build deeply industry-specific agentic and machine learning solutions, which then get diffused across the industry through revenue-share and equity-linked models.

Our Past

We have built and sold two companies, one of which was an AI company. Our founders and leaders are Math PhDs, Ivy League University Alumni, Ex-Googlers, and successful entrepreneurs.

Team

Our team of 20+ employees consists of data scientists, AI/ML Engineers, and mathematicians from top engineering and research institutes such as IITs, CERN, IISc, UZH. Our team includes academicians, IBM Research Fellows, and former founders. This role focuses on healthcare and RCM, working alongside our AI/ML engineers, data scientists and domain specialists.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead product ideation, solution design, and technical strategy from concept to execution.
• Drive end-to-end product development, translating business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Build and lead engineering teams to deliver high-impact products.
• Design and develop robust data systems to process and structure unorganized data from ERP/CRM platforms.
• Leverage AI and domain expertise in healthcare/RCM to build innovative solutions.
• Drive technology-led growth, with a focus on product scalability and business outcomes.

\Required Skills & Experience

• 15–20 years of experience in technology leadership, preferably as a CTO or senior technology leader.
• Proven experience building and/ or exiting startups.
• Strong expertise in data engineering, complex data systems, and unstructured data processing.
• Experience with AI-driven products, preferably in healthcare or Revenue Cycle Management (RCM).
• Strong product thinking, system design, architecture, and end-to-end execution capabilities.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and scalable products.

Strong Senior Product Manager — Vertical Products (Fintech, Growth & Conversion) Profile

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Mandatory(Experience 1)- Must have 6+ years of product management experience, with the most recent 3 years spent owning a consumer-facing product surface (app, web funnel, onboarding, checkout, or equivalent B2C surface).

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Mandatory(Experience 2) - Must have consumer-facing product ownership as the centre of gravity. Backend, API, infra, or internal-tools PMs with no recent consumer-facing surface will not be considered. Backend exposure alongside real consumer-funnel work is fine; a backend centre not.

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Mandatory(Experience 3)- Must have a metric-backed track record improving conversion, revenue yield, engagement, or lead quality in a consumer funnel — owned numbers, a steady experimentation cadence (A/B tests, rollouts, readouts), and comfort with analytics: funnels, cohorts, drivers, causal reasoning, measurement hygiene.

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Mandatory(Experience 4)- Must be fluent with AI — active, habitual use of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, or equivalent) in daily product practice.

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Mandatory(Stakeholder Mgmt)- Must be able to act as the primary link between business leaders, tech teams, and external partners — communicating roadmap, priorities, trade-offs, and performance readouts to senior stakeholders, and working with distributed teams across time zones (Australia, India, Philippines).

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Mandatory(Product Writing & Agile Delivery)- Must have strong product writing — problem briefs, PRD-lite/user stories, experiment plans, decision logs — and deep working command of Agile frameworks and tools.

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Mandatory(Company) - Must be from B2C product company. FinTech is the priority . A non-fintech candidate qualifies only if currently or recently at a Series B plus company.

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Preferred(Skill)- Exposure to LangChain, RAG, or prompt engineering in a product context; experience working directly with data science/ML teams on model-backed features; prior AI features in transactional or financial-services consumer UX.

Roles & Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Discovery

• Identify customer, business, and market opportunities through stakeholder engagement, customer research, discovery workshops, and data analysis.
• Define product vision, roadmap, value proposition, success metrics, and prioritization aligned with business objectives.
• Translate business and customer needs into product requirements, user stories, PRDs, and acceptance criteria.
• Own and continuously prioritize the product backlog based on business value, feasibility, dependencies, risks, and strategic priorities.

AI & Digital Innovation

• Identify and evaluate opportunities to leverage Generative AI, automation, and emerging technologies across products and business processes.
• Define AI-focused use cases, business cases, success metrics, user journeys, and MVP/PoC strategies.
• Collaborate with AI/ML, data, architecture, and engineering teams to convert AI opportunities into scalable product solutions.
• Drive adoption of AI across the product lifecycle and SDLC, including discovery, requirements management, development, testing, analytics, documentation, and support.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide AI initiatives and help scale successful AI PoCs into production-ready solutions.

Presales, Consulting & Solutioning

• Lead or contribute to RFP responses, proposals, client discovery sessions, workshops, and solution presentations.
• Understand client challenges and translate them into digital transformation, modernization, and AI-driven product opportunities.
• Develop solution concepts, use cases, product capabilities, roadmaps, value propositions, and implementation strategies.
• Partner with engineering, UX, architecture, delivery, and commercial teams to define scope, estimates, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and solution feasibility.
• Support client engagements and identify opportunities for account growth through product enhancements, modernization initiatives, and AI adoption.

Product Delivery & Governance

• Partner with UX, engineering, QA, architecture, and delivery teams to ensure successful product execution and delivery.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, UAT/SIT activities, release planning, production validation, and defect prioritization.
• Monitor product KPIs, delivery metrics, adoption, business outcomes, risks, and dependencies.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and continuous improvement throughout the product lifecycle.
• Mentor and guide Product Managers and product team members to strengthen product thinking, decision-making, stakeholder management, and delivery excellence.

Customer & Business Outcomes

• Leverage customer feedback, product analytics, experimentation, and market insights to drive continuous product improvement.
• Lead adoption and successful rollout of new capabilities through effective stakeholder engagement, communication, and change management.
• Ensure products and solutions deliver measurable customer, business, and operational outcomes.

Core Competencies

• Product strategy, discovery, roadmap planning, prioritization, and backlog management.
• Generative AI, AI product thinking, AI use-case identification, and digital innovation.
• Presales, consulting, solutioning, RFP response management, and client engagement.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technology initiatives to business outcomes.
• Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and end-to-end product delivery.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, architecture, UX, QA, data, and AI/ML teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, multiple workstreams, and senior client stakeholders.

Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or an equivalent discipline.
• MBA or certifications in Product Management, Business Analysis, or related fields preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, or Business Analysis.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with cross-functional technology teams.
• CSPO, PSPO, CBAP, or CCBA certifications are desirable.

Location - India (Remote)

Entrepreneur in Residence - Fundraising

Location: New Delhi | Work Mode: On-site | Experience: 5+ years

About the Role

IDEASHACKS is looking for an Entrepreneur in Residence to work directly with the Founder and take ownership of capital strategy, fundraising and investor readiness.

Your role is to take IDEASHACKS from business → investment-ready → investor pipeline → fundraising → capital deployment.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who understands deals, capital and execution.

What You'll Do

• Own and execute IDEASHACKS' fundraising strategy across equity, debt and structured capital.
• Build financial models, projections, valuation scenarios and investor materials.
• Identify and build relationships with VCs, PE funds, family offices, strategic investors, lenders and other capital providers.
• Build and manage the investor pipeline and drive conversations from first contact to closure.
• Lead fundraising processes, due diligence, investor data rooms and follow-ups.
• Evaluate new locations, ventures and partnerships from a commercial and capital perspective.
• Work directly with the Founder on capital allocation, expansion strategy and strategic finance.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years in Investment Banking, PE/VC, Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance, Deal Advisory or Fundraising.
• Strong financial modelling, valuation and deal-structuring skills.
• Experience working directly with founders, investors or lenders.
• At least one completed fundraising, financing, M&A or investment transaction that you personally worked on.
• Ability to independently build an investor pipeline and take conversations forward.
• Strong communication, negotiation and execution skills.
• An existing investor/lender network is a plus.

We are looking for someone who can think like an investor, operate like a Founder’s Office professional and execute like an investment banker.

Senior Product Manager – Growth & Consumer Products (FinTech Preferred)

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager with 6+ years of product management experience, including the last 3+ years owning consumer-facing B2C products (app, onboarding, checkout, growth, or conversion funnels).

Must Have:

- Consumer product ownership (not backend/infrastructure-focused)

- Strong track record of improving conversion, engagement, revenue, or retention through A/B testing and data-driven experimentation

- Experience with analytics, funnels, cohorts, and product metrics

- Active use of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.) in product work

- Strong stakeholder management across business, engineering, and design teams

- Experience writing PRDs, user stories, and working in Agile environments

- Current or recent experience in a B2C product company (FinTech preferred; otherwise Series B+ startup)

Good to Have:

- Experience with AI/ML products, prompt engineering, LangChain, or RAG.

About the Company

As the world moves toward AI-native applications, one element matters more than anything: data.

We are building a platform that helps organizations unlock the value hidden within customer feedback. By centralizing data from multiple sources—including CRM platforms, support systems, collaboration tools, surveys, community forums, and customer conversations—into a unified intelligence layer, we enable teams to understand customer needs and make better product decisions.

Built on top of this foundation is an AI-powered platform that allows teams to query, monitor, and act on customer intelligence directly within their workflows. Our customers include some of the fastest-growing product-led technology companies as well as large global enterprises.

Backed by leading global venture capital firms, our engineering culture is AI-native from the ground up. Agents, LLMs, and applied machine learning are not side projects—they are central to how we build products. We operate at the cutting edge of agentic systems and continuously push the boundaries of what modern AI applications can achieve.

What You Will Do

• Convert product direction into phased technical plans, including estimates, milestones, dependencies, and risk assessments.
• Make thoughtful trade-offs across correctness, latency, user experience, AI/model behavior, reliability, cost, and delivery speed.
• Define clear ownership boundaries across frontend applications, BFF layers, backend services, agent workflows, ML platforms, and data contracts.
• Review ERDs, PRDs, design documents, and implementation plans to identify gaps before they become execution challenges.
• Drive planning and execution for complex initiatives while empowering area leads and senior engineers to maintain ownership.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and GTM teams to turn ambiguous problem statements into executable solutions.
• Influence technical direction through strong engineering judgment, architectural leadership, and hands-on involvement.
• Mentor senior engineers and contribute to engineering excellence through reviews, incident analysis, and proactive risk management.

What It Takes

• 9+ years of experience as a Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, or equivalent role.
• Demonstrated experience owning architecture and execution for large-scale product or platform initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems and modern software architecture.
• Exposure to agentic AI systems, machine learning engineering, MLOps platforms, and frontend/BFF architectures.
• Ability to own end-to-end product and technical problems rather than specializing exclusively in a single layer of the stack.
• Proven track record of converting ambiguity into actionable engineering plans.
• Excellent written communication skills, including design documentation, architectural reviews, trade-off analyses, and RCA documentation.
• Ability to challenge requirements constructively and collaborate effectively across Product, Design, Engineering, and GTM functions.
• High ownership mindset, attention to detail, and a low-ego, collaborative approach.

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline

• 8+ years of experience in project or programme management

• 3+ years of experience delivering AI, Machine Learning, Data, or Analytics programmes

• PMP, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent certification preferred

Senior Product Manager – AI / B2B SaaS

Location: Bengaluru

Work Mode: Work from Office

Experience: 5+ years

Department: Product Management

About LeadSquared

LeadSquared is a leading Sales CRM for high-velocity revenue teams, helping businesses manage leads, sales processes, customer interactions, marketing, and revenue workflows at scale.

We serve businesses where large sales teams manage high volumes of leads and customer interactions, making speed, prioritisation, automation, and effective sales execution critical to revenue growth.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager – AI to own the roadmap and end-to-end execution of AI products within LeadSquared.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap, prioritisation, and end-to-end execution for your AI product area.
• Understand customer problems and identify where AI can create meaningful, scalable value and translate them into clear product requirements and scalable solutions.
• Drive products from discovery and 0→1 development through launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Build and scale end-user-facing AI experiences that work reliably within enterprise workflows. 
• Make informed product decisions considering quality, latency, and scale trade-offs in production AI systems.
• Work closely with Engineering, Design, AI/ML, Data, and GTM teams to ship high-quality products.
• Define and track product adoption, engagement, customer outcomes, and business impact.
• Drive GTM, adoption, and continuous product optimisation.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of Product Management experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on Product Management experience building AI products.
• Strong B2B SaaS product experience.
• Experience in 0→1 product development and launches.
• Strong product discovery, prioritisation, roadmap management, and execution skills.
• Familiarity with AI evaluations (evals), observability, guardrails, and human oversight.
• Data-driven approach with strong understanding of product metrics.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Candidates from Tier 1 / Tier 1.5 / Tier 2 colleges preferred.

Good to Have

• Experience building products using GenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI Agents / Agentic AI, or ML-based decision systems.
• Experience in CRM, SalesTech, MarTech, or Enterprise SaaS.
• Experience building AI products for sales, revenue, operations, or other enterprise users.
• Experience taking an AI capability from an early prototype to a reliable, scalable enterprise product.
• Candidates who have built AI side projects will have a preference. Share links to live products, prototypes, demos, GitHub repositories, agents, or apps you’ve built.
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