Weekday (YC W21)

Business Lead

Weekday (YC W21)  โ€ข  Mumbai, IN (Onsite)  โ€ข  3 hours ago
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Job Description

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Experience: 4+ yrs

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for a commercially driven Business Lead to take end-to-end ownership of a growing consumer brand. This role is designed for an entrepreneurial leader who can think like a founder while leveraging established teams and resources across creative, performance marketing, technology, ecommerce operations, and business development.

You will be accountable for the brand's strategy, P&L, growth, profitability, customer journey, and day-to-day business decisions The ideal candidate combines strong analytical thinking with hands-on execution and is comfortable making decisions in an evolving, high-growth environment.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

P&L & Business Ownership

  • Take complete ownership of the brand's P&L, including revenue, margins, profitability, and growth.
  • Develop business plans and strategies to achieve sustainable revenue and profitability targets.
  • Monitor business performance and identify opportunities, risks, and areas requiring intervention.
  • Balance top-line growth with healthy margins and long-term business value.

Brand & Growth Strategy

  • Define the brand's overall strategy, priorities, positioning, and growth roadmap.
  • Develop customer acquisition and retention strategies across relevant channels.
  • Analyze customer behavior, market trends, and competitive activity to identify growth opportunities.
  • Work with performance marketing, creative, ecommerce, and technology teams to execute growth priorities.
  • Build and optimize the customer journey from acquisition through retention.

Product & Merchandising

  • Provide strategic direction on product launches, assortment, merchandising, and portfolio priorities.
  • Identify products or categories to launch, scale, improve, or discontinue.
  • Use customer and commercial data to guide product and merchandising decisions.
  • Ensure product strategy remains aligned with customer demand and profitability objectives.

Pricing & Unit Economics

  • Own pricing strategy, promotional decisions, and commercial levers.
  • Monitor unit economics, contribution margins, customer acquisition costs, and profitability
  • Develop strategies to improve margins without compromising sustainable growth.
  • Evaluate promotional and pricing initiatives based on measurable business impact.

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Direct shared teams across creative, performance marketing, ecommerce operations, technology, and business development
  • Establish clear priorities, expectations, and success metrics for cross-functional teams.
  • Influence teams without relying solely on formal reporting relationships.
  • Ensure effective execution of strategic initiatives across functions.

Performance & Leadership Reporting

  • Track key business and growth metrics and translate data into actionable insights.
  • Prepare regular performance updates covering brand health, opportunities, risks, and future plans.
  • Present recommendations and business performance to senior leadership.
  • Continuously evaluate initiatives and adjust priorities based on results.

What's Makes You a Great Fit

  • 4+ years of relevant experience in D2C, ecommerce, consumer brands, business management, growth, or related roles.
  • Proven experience owning or significantly contributing to P&L and business performance
  • Strong understanding of revenue growth, profitability, margins, and unit economics.
  • Experience developing and executing brand and growth strategies
  • Strong understanding of customer acquisition, retention, pricing, promotions, and merchandising.
  • Highly analytical approach with the ability to make decisions based on data rather than assumptions.
  • Comfortable working with AI-powered tools to improve productivity, research, analysis, and decision-making.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to influence teams without direct authority and drive execution through clarity and accountability.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments and creating processes where none exist.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to move seamlessly between strategic planning and hands-on execution
  • Strong commercial judgment, ownership mentality, and focus on measurable business outcomes.
Weekday (YC W21)

About Weekday (YC W21)

AI recruiter that runs outbound sourcing campaigns to find top talent. At Weekday, we have built the most accurate database of talent (250mn+ people in US & India with contact data), we run outbound campaigns to identify top talent for any role you might be hiring for. We generate the highest response rates (30-40%) on our campaigns making sourcing talent as easy as making a job posting. We are backed by Y-Combinator and were also ranked #1 on Product Hunt.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
San Fransisco, CA
Year Founded
2021
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