Manifest Global empowers in building companies that connect the world towards growth, prosperity, and innovation. Our portfolio includes trailblazer brands such as Cialfo, BridgeU, Explore, Kaaiser, EduGo, and Flow AI and which are dedicated to expanding global student mobility by serving their respective stakeholders in the ecosystem.

To create a world where every student, regardless of their ethnicity, nationality, socio-economic status, and learning preference, gets equal access to higher education through our world-class network of portfolio brands; a network that globally connects community stakeholders that provide the finest resources and support material, anywhere in the world and at any time.

Some come through K12 school partnerships, some find their way in directly. When that journey works, a student ends up at a university that fits their budget, their course, and their ambitions, and the business realizes revenue at the moment they enroll. It's that the highest-leverage work in a business like this doesn't live inside one function - it lives in the transformation and optimization projects that cut across Tech, Product, Marketing, and Operations, and someone needs to own them end to end. A funnel improvement that Marketing wants tested needs Product to build it and Tech to ship it. A new process that could remove a structural inefficiency needs someone to design it, prove it, and hand it off cleanly. Right now, that ownership happens informally, project by project, and the work that would compound doesn't get the sustained, disciplined execution it needs.

You will run multiple 'Strategize - Build - Operate - Transfer' projects a year - some of them genuinely 0-1 (new ideas that need user research, market research, and hypothesis testing before anyone knows if they work), some of them optimization projects on things that already exist but need better process design and a new benchmark for what positive looks like. You will own full-cycle delivery for these projects - from framing the problem with the right stakeholders, through build and testing, to launch, operating it long enough to prove it works, and transferring it cleanly to whoever owns it long-term. You are the person who makes sure a project doesn't just get discussed. It gets shipped, it gets proven,



and it gets handed off in a state someone else can run with.

Most program management roles ask you to track a roadmap someone else designed. This one asks you to build the roadmap itself - deciding what the next transformation or optimization project should even be, then owning it across three or four functions that don't naturally report to the same person. The Strategize-Build-Operate-Transfer model means you don't hand a project off the moment it launches; The Manifest ecosystem gives this role real range: some projects will be genuinely 0-1 - a new idea nobody has tested yet - and others will be 1-100 - scaling something that already works but is starting to strain under its own complexity. There is no finished playbook for how these projects should run - you're expected to design the frameworks, set the benchmarks, and prove through disciplined experimentation what should scale and what shouldn't.

Transformation projects (Strategize - Build - Operate - Transfer)

Translate a business problem into a project plan that Tech, Product, Marketing and Business teams can actually execute against

Own the full lifecycle of assigned projects - scoping, stakeholder alignment, build, testing, launch, and post-launch review

Own multiple SBOT-cycle projects a year, end to end, from initial strategy through a clean operational handoff

Define what 'operate' looks like well enough to prove a project works before transferring ownership

Lead user research, market research, and hypothesis testing on new ideas before committing resources to build them

Identify structural inefficiencies across the business and turn them into scoped optimization projects

Be the connective layer between Tech, Product, Marketing, and Operations so a project doesn't stall in the gap between roadmaps

In your first weeks, you're not shipping yet - you're building a working map of how projects actually move through Tech, Product, and Marketing today,



and forming a point of view on where the highest-leverage transformation or optimization opportunities sit. You'll know you're on track when stakeholders start coming to you before a project stalls, not after.

By the middle of your first year, you've run at least one full SBOT cycle from strategy to clean handoff, and the people around you trust that if you've said something will happen, it will. Longer term, the way the business runs cross-functional projects looks different because you built it that way - frameworks that outlast the specific projects they were built for, a track record of transformations that actually stuck, and a reputation as the person who gets called in when something critical and undefined needs to happen.

You've spent five to eight years building things inside high-growth environments, and you've likely seen both ends of that growth curve - the 0-1 phase, where the job is rapid experimentation, hypothesis testing, and getting an MVP in front of real users, and the 1-100 phase, where the job becomes process design and managing the complexity that scale creates. You know which mode a problem calls for and you don't try to apply 1-100 rigor to a 0-1 problem, or vice versa.

Most importantly, you read the description of what this role is building and your first reaction was not 'this sounds like a coordination job.' Manifest Global is building the infrastructure for global human capital mobility - connecting students, schools, universities, and employers across 50+ countries. Our portfolio spans Cialfo (AI-powered college counseling, 2,000+ schools), BridgeU (university guidance for international schools globally), Kaaiser (trusted study abroad counseling since 1997 across India and Southeast Asia), and Explore (AI-powered university outreach, 1,000+ university partners). Together, we move talent across borders at scale. $We're building the operating system which changes that. $Student Placements is where that infrastructure meets an individual student's decision - and the transformation and optimization work this role owns is what makes that infrastructure work better at every scale it operates at.

Manifest Global is building the infrastructure for global human capital mobility, operating across 50+ countries.

📌 Programme Manager - Tech and Innovation (Delhi)
🏢 Manifest Global
📍 Delhi