Handshake
Growth Operations Lead (India)
India. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Growth Operations Lead will architect and scale strategic growth initiatives to drive revenue and product adoption. You will own the growth roadmap and design scalable growth systems and data-driven experiments.
What you will do
- Own critical growth initiatives from strategy through execution
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, and GTM
- Design and run scalable growth systems and data-driven experiments
- Optimize the funnel from acquisition to activation
- Synthesize product, market, and operational data to surface opportunities
- Work with leadership to define success metrics and drive accountability
- Solve ambiguous, high-priority problems with a structured, data-first approach
- Build playbooks and systems from zero to one
Required qualifications
- 3-4+ years in growth, product, strategy, or operations at a fast-paced tech company
- Track record of owning growth initiatives end-to-end
- Advanced data skills (SQL or Python)
- Familiarity with BI tools, funnel metrics, and KPI tracking
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to operate autonomously and influence cross-functionally
- Entrepreneurial, bias-for-action mindset
- Bachelor's degree
Nice to have
- Engineering background
- Top-20 university or MBA
- Experience launching or scaling AI/ML products (B2B or B2C)
- Familiarity with technical GTM motions, customer segmentation, or developer-facing onboarding flows
- A history of building scalable systems or pods from scratch in high-growth environments
Benefits
- Generous equity grant, vested over 4 years
- Housing Bonus: 1.3 Lakhs spread throughout the first year
- Well-defined performance bonus ranging between 10–100% of base
- Premium medical insurance coverage
- Food credit for every in-person day
About the company
Handshake powers 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. Handshake AI works directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data.