Job Title: Manager: Growth Strategy

Location: Electronic City, Bangalore 

Reporting to: Head of Admissions, Scaler School of Technology (SST)

Work Mode: On-Site
Team Size: 6-8 Associates: GTM, Strategy & Ops

About Scaler
Launched in 2019, Scaler is India’s leading tech education company that upskills working professionals and educates aspiring engineering students. Scaler’s industry-vetted curriculum addresses real-world challenges through two flagship online programs: Scaler and Scaler DSML.

To further redefine education, Scaler has launched:

• Scaler Neovarsity: An outcome-focused online Master's Programme

• Scaler School of Technology (SST): A 4-year residential UG program in Computer Science

• Scaler School of Business: An 18-month PGP in Management & Technology

Our parent firm, InterviewBit, has been featured in the Financial Times’ Asia-Pacific High Growth Companies 2021–2025. Scaler is backed by marquee global investors like Peak XV (formerly Sequoia India), Tiger Global, and Lightrock India.

 

About the Role
SST is leading a once-in-a-generation shift in how India nurtures its next wave of engineers - and this role puts you in the driver’s seat of that transformation.

As a Manager: Growth Strategy, you will lead a high-calibre team that works directly with top-performing students and families evaluating the country’s most prestigious engineering pathways - IITs, BITS, NITs, and leading private universities.

 

Your role goes beyond leadership - you will shape SST’s parent-facing strategy by transforming frontline insights into GTM intelligence, refining decision-support narratives, and orchestrating org-wide improvements across communication, touchpoints, and parent experience.

 

This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys solving unstructured GTM problems, and wants to build institution-defining systems that influence how India’s strongest students choose their academic future. You will serve as a coach, strategist, problem-solver, and thought partner to both your team and SST’s leadership.

 

What you will do/Responsibilities

1. January to August: GTM & Strategy Activation
   During this phase, you will:

   • Lead and coach a pod of Growth Strategy Associates to run mature, structured, high-stakes advisory conversations.

   • Handle complex cases with top-tier families, modelling calmness, clarity, and structured reasoning.

   • Translate patterns from frontline conversations into sharp GTM insights for leadership, marketing, academics, and campus teams.

   • Oversee quick, insight-led GTM experiments around parent narratives, sequencing, and experience improvements.

   • Ensure advisory consistency and quality, through regular coaching sessions, and frameworks for decision-support.

2. September to December: GTM & Strategic Development
   During this phase, you will work on strategic, insight-led initiatives that strengthen SST’s approach to engaging high-calibre families - including but not limited to:

   • Synthesising learnings from the entire year into clear, high-quality recommendations that shape next year’s GTM strategy.

   • Leading multiple GTM experiments that test new approaches across formats and touchpoints.

   • Partnering with GTM, marketing, content, product, and leadership teams to refine processes

   • Identifying structural friction points in the overall experience and driving improvements across workflows and stakeholder interactions.

Opportunities

This role offers significant exposure to admissions. Successful performers can grow into:

• Senior Manager: Growth Strategy: Work directly with leadership on high-impact projects involving GTM strategy.

Required Qualifications 

• Education

  • Engineering degree from a Tier-1 institution

• Experience

  • 3–4 years of experience in growth,  strategy or founder’s office type roles.

  • Prior exposure to engaging with premium stakeholders is a plus but not mandatory.

  • Minimum 1 year of team leadership experience (managing a pod, coaching individuals, driving performance).

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Exceptional spoken communication in English and Hindi; calm and structured conversational style.

  • Strong presence, maturity, and ability to command trust in high-stakes conversations.

  • Proficiency in coaching and mentoring team members to improve communication, objection handling, and case strategy.

  • High analytical orientation - ability to track and interpret metrics, and intervene with data-backed actions.

Demonstrated ownership, integrity, and ability to manage high-stakes conversations.