Key Highlights
Position: Founding Product Manager, Zudo
Location: In Office (Gurgaon)
Experience: 4-10 years of hands-on experience in building consumer products at high growth startups / ex-entrepreneurs preferred (ex-PM, Founder)
CTC Range: Market‑level CTC + meaningful ESOPs (high ownership)
Important: Apply only if you are ok with high rigor. This role will average 60 hour workweeks with high skin in the game / ESOP / best in class pay. If you are not comfortable going all in, this may not be the right role for you.
About Airblack & Zudo
Airblack is India’s largest alternate skilling platform. Our mission is to help the next 100 million people in the workforce get access to meaningful opportunities. With a lean team of under 30 people working at the intersection of AI and learning, we are on track to cross 100cr in revenue run-rate in FY27.
We currently operate in sectors such as content creation, SME skills, beauty, fashion, nutrition, digital & home businesses, impacting over 1M learners every month. Our apps consistently rank in top 10 education apps in India with 1M+ users and 40M+ minutes of learning content being consumed every month. One of our new products, Zudo, is now India’s fastest growing apps in the skilling / content space.
Airblack has raised Rs. 100cr+ from marquee investors such as Elevation Capital, Info Edge Ventures, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Blume Founders Fund and Better Capital, and leading angels such as Vidit (Meesho), Kunal (CRED), Deepinder (Zomato), Harshit & Shashank (Razorpay) and so on.
What would you be doing?
Role
Own the product roadmap for a rocketship growing 100% MoM. We're at 1M MAU and need to hit 10M in 12 months without breaking things.
AI-powered product strategy: Define and ship AI-first features such as - personalized learning paths, smart recommendations, conversational tutors and automated assessments.
Drive hyper-growth metrics: Own user growth and engagement. Drive improvements in user retention across all time horizons. Optimize free-to-paid conversion. Reduce customer acquisition costs through product-led growth while increasing lifetime value.
Run experiments at scale: Ship experiments across onboarding, discovery, engagement and monetization. Build a robust testing framework for rapid prototyping and testing.
Scale the platform: Build creator tools and AI-assisted content workflows to 10x content velocity. Design marketplace dynamics - matching algorithms, quality scoring, discovery, creator incentives. Expand to 30+ categories. Create features that improve with scale (network effects, data moats, content flywheel).
Lead cross-functional teams: Work directly with founders on strategy and OKRs. Lead pods of 8-10 people across engineering, design, analytics, growth, content. Establish product culture: user obsession, bias for speed, data-driven decisions, extreme ownership.
Perks
Fast-growth: This role fast-tracks to VP -> CXO in 2-3 years
High skin in the game: Aggressive ESOP allocations at the onset. We recently concluded our first ESOP buyback, and if the company continues doing well in next 3 years, this promises to be a life-altering opportunity in terms on ESOP liquidity
Build in one of the highest talent density in consumer-tech: Learn from and work with some of the best peers you can find in a consumer-tech company in NCR.
Infinite budget for knowledge, upskilling, tech tools & AI tools
Mentor connect available to the whose and whose of startup ecosystem (check our angel investor list)
Usuals: Health Insurance cover, flexible leave policy, a free environment to build what you love
What makes you a suitable candidate?
We are assembling some of the smartest and highly ambitious individuals under one roof, to build a consumer-tech company that we can be proud of. This will not be a 9-5 well defined role, so if you're looking for one, you shouldn't consider applying.
Core background:
4-10 years in product, with 3+ years at high-growth consumer startups (spaces such as consumer AI, edtech, social/content, travel, fintech, marketplace preferred)
Proven 0→1 and 1→100 experience - shipped products from scratch and scaled to millions
Track record of impact with numbers: "increased retention by 35%", "drove $2M ARR",
Built and shipped AI/ML features (recommendations, personalization, NLP, LLM applications)
Have done cross-functional execution in the past: aligned eng, design, growth, content around shared goals
Strong preference for ex-entrepreneurs or ex-software engineers or data analysts looking to transition to product. Strong preference for Tier-1 education background.
Deep understanding of Tier 2/3 India users (lived experience or strong empathy)
Expertise:
You identify as AI native. You dont need a dev team to ship the first prototype / design of a feature or a product, or a data team to ship a dashboard
Can understand system architecture, and discuss technical trade-offs with engineers
Strong data skills - write SQL, analyze data, understand statistics and A/B testing
Expert in analytics tools (Mixpanel/Amplitude), SQL, experimentation platforms
Deep understanding of unit economics, LTV:CAC, payback periods
Mobile-first DNA with iOS/Android expertise