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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
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.
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.