Key Highlights

- Position: 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, adaptable 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

📌 Product Manager (Consumer AI) (Gurugram)
🏢 Airblack
📍 Gurugram