Role title: Chief of Staff to the Retail Business Lead Location: Kormangala, Bengaluru __________________________________________________________________________________ About Aramya Our vision is to build some of the world's most loved fashion and lifestyle brands and enable people to express themselves. We're well funded, with $20M raised from marquee investors like Accel, Z47 and industry veterans. Our first brand, Aramya, launched in 2024, achieved 40 Cr in revenue in its very first year, powered by a proprietary supply chain, in-house manufacturing, and data-led designing. Today, we're operating at a 200 Cr ARR and scaling fast across D2C and retail stores. Website: www.aramya.in Our Team: https://shorturl.at/l6uYJ About the Role and the Retail Mission Aramya is entering its scaling phase — expanding from 5 to 200+ stores over the next 3 years and we are looking for a high-ownership operator who operates with urgency, discipline, and high energy — a builder who gets things done fast without compromising on quality and holds themselves to exceptional execution standards. We are looking for a high-ownership operator who will act as an extension of the Retail Head and help build the retail engine required for this journey. This role is about owning outcomes — driving store performance, key metrics, expansion velocity, and execution discipline — while solving new problem statements that emerge as we scale. You will work with strong domain experts across functions, but your responsibility is to ensure that everything required to build a best-in-class retail organization gets done. Roles & Responsibilities 1. Retail Business Ownership ● Drive overall store performance across revenue, productivity, and profitability metrics ● Track and improve core retail KPIs (sales/sqft, conversion, AOV, repeat behavior, inventory efficiency) ● Continuously identify growth levers and execution gaps, and drive corrective action with accountability 2. Scale & Expansion Execution ● Own expansion execution from 10 → 200+ stores with uncompromising standards on timelines, readiness, and launch quality ● Scale the footprint aggressively while raising per-store performance benchmarks ● Eliminate expansion bottlenecks before they impact growth 3. Systems & Operating Discipline ● Architect the operating structure for a 200+ store business ● Institutionalize rigorous SOPs, reporting, and performance cadences ● Drive consistency, predictability, and high execution standards across the network 4. Cross-Functional Leadership ● Align multiple expert teams toward retail outcomes ● Act as the final escalation owner for critical issues ● Lead high-stakes, ambiguous problem-solving during scale Key Skills & Qualifications ● 8–10 years of operator experience in high-growth startups or consumer businesses ● Engineering background from premium institutions (IITs, NITs, BITS, or equivalent) ● Proven ownership of a category, business unit, or P&L with measurable outcomes ● Extreme ownership mindset and personal accountability for results ● Highly disciplined operator with consistently high standards of execution ● Demonstrated resilience and effectiveness in fast, high-pressure environments ● Comfortable moving between strategic problem-solving and on-ground execution as required ● Structured thinker who converts ambiguity into clear, executable plans ● True all-rounder: equally strong in analysis, execution, and leadershi