Oolka is hiring across business roles

Oolka is a Series A fintech startup building agentic AI to help millions of Indians manage their credit and finances. We're backed by Accel, Lightspeed India, and Z47, and founded by Utkrishta Kumar (ex-Chief Business Officer, Meesho).

AI is deeply embedded in how our Tech, Product, and Design teams work, we're not just using AI, we're building it.

Location: Work from office, Bellandur, Bangalore

Business Manager - Lending

What you will do

- Own the end-to-end lending journey from application to disbursal.
- Improve approval, conversion and disbursal rates by identifying bottlenecks and driving them to closure.
- Monitor key business metrics and ensure issues are identified early.
- Work closely with lending partners to improve decisioning, turnaround times, approvals and disbursal efficiency.
- Manage lender capacities, approval queues and operational escalations.
- Coordinate across credit, product, engineering, customer experience and lenders to ensure smooth execution.
- Decide operational interventions across the funnel, including user prioritisation, calling campaigns, user nudges and lender routing.
- Run experiments to improve business metrics and customer experience.




- Simplify processes and automate manual work to improve business efficiency.

Success in this role You'll know you're doing well if:

- Approval-to-disbursal conversion keeps improving.
- Lender turnaround times reduce.
- Business issues are identified before they become customer issues.
- Teams execute faster because you're driving alignment.
- Business consistently achieves its disbursal targets.
- The business scales without operational bottlenecks.

What we're looking for

- 4–6 years of experience in Business Operations, Lending Operations or Marketplace Operations.
- Experience in digital lending, loan marketplaces, embedded lending or consumer fintech.
- Strong understanding of lending funnels and lender operations.
- Experience managing lender relationships.
- Comfortable working with data. Advanced Excel is a must.
- Someone who takes ownership, communicates well and enjoys solving problems.
- Ability to work across multiple teams in a fast-moving startup setting.
- Candidates from loan marketplaces, embedded lending platforms and consumer fintechs working with multiple lending partners will be preferred.

📌 Business Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Oolka
📍 Bengaluru