Newton School Hiring For Interesting Job Opportunity: Newton School – Director – Operations – Placements & Enterprise – B2B at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

On one side you have over a million college graduates every year with barely 5% employability rates and on the other side, there are thousands of companies struggling to find talent. Newton School aims to bridge this massive gap through it’s personalised learning platform. We are building an online university and solving the deep problem of employability of graduates.

We have a strong core team consisting of alumni from IIT’s and IIM’s, having several years of industry experience in companies like Unacademy, Inmobi, Ola, Microsoft – among others. On this mission, we are backed by some of the most respected investors around the world, – RTP Global, Nexus Venture Partners and a slew of angel investors including CRED’s Kunal Shah, Flipkart’s Kalyan Krishnamoorthy, Unacademy and Razorpay founders, Udaan’s Sujeet Kumar among others.

Role Description

The Director of Operations will lead all activities toward achieving business goals of the organization and report to the the leadership team. S/He will be responsible to drive operational excellence and high output. The candidate will also assess team member performance using metrics and data, motivate and lead team to achieve their full potential, and maintain a solid talent pipeline. If driving a huge machinery of 6000+ students, 700+ mentors, 200+ lecturers with a six sigma proficiency seems like an achievable task, this role is for you!

Responsibilities

• Plan, monitor, and analyse key metrics for the day-to-day performance of the operations team to ensure efficient and timely completion of projects
• Creating processes & mechanisms for all business objectives
• Collaborate with product team to develop scale-able features & reduce manual efforts
• Hire exceptional talent, nurture teams and create a culture of result driven action oriented work

Key Skills

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Must have B2B/Corporate sales experience.
• Experience of building and leading teams
• Superior knowledge of multiple operational functions and principles, including process design, customer success, data analysis, product design and employee management
• Candidates with strong experience with top-tier Start-up firms preferred. Experience in Ed-tech industry preferred.
• Intellectual agility and an entrepreneurial mindset with demonstrable drive, initiative, energy and a sense of urgency in acquiring and serving customers.
• Proven analytical and decision-making abilities

Our Way Of Working

• An opportunity to work on something that really matters.
• A fast-paced environment to learn and grow. High transparency in decision making.
• High autonomy; freedom to take risks, to experiment, and to fail.
• Market competitive salary.

We promise a meaningful journey with smart people, with opportunities to learn & grow. Plus, you can sleep peacefully knowing you are impacting lives in a big way, every day!

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