Product Manager Zudo

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
• CTC Range: Market‑level CTC + meaningful ESOPs (high ownership)

About Airblack & Zudo

Airblack is India’s largest alternate skilling platform, helping people become microentrepreneurs and creators. Our mission is to help the next 100 million people in the workforce get access to meaningful opportunities.

We currently operate in sectors such as beauty, fashion, nutrition, digital & home businesses, impacting over 1M learners every month. Our flagship school in the beauty space is India’s #1 Beauty Academy brand, with an alumni base of over 40,000 entrepreneurs in 300+ cities in India. Our apps consistently rank in top 10 education apps in India with 1M+ users and 40M+ minutes of learning content being consumed every month.

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.

One of our new products, Zudo, is now India’s fastest growing apps in the skilling / content space. Built with the mission of helping people get access to meaningful opportunities, it offers microcourses across Social media, Beauty, Fashion and other digital businesses. Few numbers:

• 10M downloads / 1M MAU / growing 100% QoQ
• Over 50,000 businesses already launched in beauty / fashion / nutrition / digital sectors

What would you be doing?

Own the product roadmap for a rocketship growing 100% MoM. We're at 1M MAU and need to hit 5M in 6 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.

What makes you a suitable candidate?

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 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:

• 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
• Hypothesis-driven approach to features and experiments
• Deep understanding of unit economics, LTV:CAC, payback periods
• Mobile-first DNA with iOS/Android expertise

About the Team at Airblack

We are a lean team (under 30 members) with a high curiosity quotient and talent density. We like to partner with highly ambitious people who like to set high benchmarks for themselves, and have backed it up with actions in the past. Current management team:

• Videt: Founder; Product & Business; Ex-Elevation Capital, BCG, NSIT, 2X founder
• Vaibhav: Founder, Engineering; Ex-Goldman Sachs, IIT Roorkee CS
• Nirmal: Business & Category; Ex-Urban Company, Vedanta, IIT Madras
• Harleen: BD & Culture; Ex-Spicejet, Education Entrepreneur
• Hrishikesh: Operations, Ex-Teach for India