Job Description

Company Overview:
Since 2019, Apna has connected over 60 million jobseekers with more than 250,000 enterprises and small businesses across India. Founded by Nirmit Parikh, a Stanford graduate and serial entrepreneur who recognises the challenges in early-level hiring, Apna has rapidly grown to become India's fastest unicorn in 2021 - achieving this milestone in just 21 months.Backed by marque global investors - Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, and GSV, we're revolutionising livelihood creation across India.
Role Summary
We are seeking a product leader to own the end-to-end charter of Apna's Job Marketplace--driving strategy, execution, and innovation across both sides of the platform: employers and candidates. This role is accountable for marketplace health, product velocity, and unlocking scalable 0?1?N growth systems.
Location: Bengaluru (Onsite)
Function: Product & Marketplace Leadership
Reports to: CEO, Job Marketplace
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:

• Marketplace Product Ownership: Define and execute product strategy across demand (employers) and supply (jobseekers) to improve matching efficiency, hiring outcomes, and engagement.
• Leadership & Org Building: Lead PMs, AD-Product, Design, and Analytics. Build a strong bench, groom successors, and scale a high-output product organisation.
• Strategy + Execution: Translate business goals into clear product roadmaps; drive velocity, prioritization, and operational rigor across teams.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Work closely with Engineering, Growth, Sales, Operations, and Leadership to deliver outcomes, not just features.
• Data-led Decisioning: Use experimentation, insights, and analytics to drive marketplace health metrics (activation, liquidity, retention, success rates).
• Customer Understanding: Build deep empathy for employers and India's mass-market workforce to shape solutions that are simple, reliable, and scalable.
• Innovation & Scale: Identify big bets, 10x opportunities, and structural fixes that unlock exponential growth for the marketplace.

What We're Looking For

• 10-12+ years of product leadership in large-scale consumer internet/marketplace businesses.
• Strong understanding of two-sided marketplace dynamics and growth levers.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams (PM, Design, Analytics) with clarity and accountability.
• A rare blend of strategic depth + execution excellence; able to operate at both 30,000 ft and ground level.
• Proven success in scaling products, improving funnel and engagement metrics, and shipping fast with high quality.
• Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Why This Role Matters
This leader will shape the next chapter of Apna's Job Marketplace--unlocking scale, product innovation, and marketplace efficiency for millions of jobseekers and employers across India.

Skills Required