Manager, Corporate Strategy & Innovation

About us

Launched in 2017 WeWork India is one of Indias leading premium flexible workspace operators - GPTW certified (Nov 2024 Nov 2025 Dec 2025 Dec 2026). WeWork India has been the largest operator by total revenue for the past three fiscal years*. Since its inception WeWork India has expanded across 8 cities in Chennai New Delhi Gurugram Noida Mumbai Bengaluru Pune and Hyderabad with 73 operational centres spanning 8.2 million square feet (as of December 2025). WeWork India has played a significant role in the growth of the flexible workspace sector and contributed to the evolution of its products and services providing customised and curated solutions for various office space needs*.

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About the Role

At WeWork India innovation isnt a side project - its how we stay ahead. This role sits at the intersection of strategy execution and culture. You wont just generate ideas youll turn them into pilots measurable outcomes and scalable solutions that move the business forward.

Youll partner across Sales Product Tech Ops Finance and Community to transform ambiguity into structured execution - building prototypes launching MVPs and driving real impact across the organisation.

Roles and Responsibilities

Innovation Project Execution

Objective: Ensure innovation projects move from ideas to execution-ready pilots with clarity structure and measurable impact.

• Work closely on active innovation projects.
• Engage deeply with cross-functional stakeholders and subject matter experts (Sales Tech Product Ops Finance Community)
• Translate insights and concepts into execution ready outputs including:
• prototypes
• pilots
• MVP
• clearly scoped project briefs
• Break down ambiguous problem statements into quantifiable problem definitions.
• Build basic business cases for innovation initiatives:
• define expected impact (revenue cost experience efficiency)
• outline assumptions and risks.
• Define KPIs and success metrics for pilots and early-stage projects.
• Define milestones track progress and hold stakeholders accountable for deliverables.

Internal Facing Innovation (Idea to Execution Funnel)

Objective: Create a clear credible pipeline for internal ideas from submission to outcome.

• Establish and run a robust idea collection mechanism across departments and employees.
• Create a structured filtering framework to evaluate ideas based on:
• potential business impact
• urgency and relevance
• feasibility and effort.
• Identify overlaps and duplication across ideas and ongoing initiatives; proactively merge or align them.
• Set up clear communication loops:
• upward updates to leadership on progress and decisions
• feedback loops to idea contributors on what happened to their ideas.
• Work alongside the Innovation team and business owners to:
• prioritise shortlisted ideas
• support pilot execution
• enable handover to owning departments where relevant.
• Ensure ideas are not left open-ended every idea should move toward execution merger or conscious closure.

Innovation Culture & Engagement

Objective: Make innovation visible engaging and credible across the organisation.

• Play a key role in building and sustaining an innovation mindset across regions and functions.
• Design and run an annual innovation engagement calendar including:
• workshops and ideation sessions
• focus group discussions
• townhalls
• a Shark Tankstyle event for shortlisted ideas.
• Support initiatives aimed at improving Innovation NPS:
• participation levels
• quality of engagement
• perceived value of innovation programs.
• Work closely with the People team to:
• identify cultural or capability gaps
• design interventions to improve participation ownership and follow-through.
• Help document and communicate success stories learnings and outcomes to build momentum and credibility.

External Research & Innovation Scanning

Objective: Keep the organisation ahead of the curve and avoid reinventing the wheel.

• Continuously scan the market for emerging technologies tools platforms and innovation models relevant to WeWork.
• Conduct structured research on:
• what the innovation is
• where its being used
• potential applicability to WeWork.
• Evaluate top innovations based on:
• business relevance
• scalability
• cost-benefit.
• Work with internal teams to build practical use cases around shortlisted innovations.
  Prepare leadership-ready summaries and decks to:
• showcase opportunities
• recommend pilots or experiments.
• Support initial pilots or POCs where approved.

Education and Desired Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in strategy innovation new business building or similar roles - ideally in a fast-paced high-growth environment where speed and ownership matter
• A proven track record of launching new business lines products or initiatives from 01 taking ideas from concept to execution and measurable impact.
• Comfort with tech-friendly tools and digital product environments; ability to work closely with tech teams and ideally basic familiarity with coding app launches or digital product deployment.
• Strong project management and structured problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and create clarity in new or evolving business areas.
• Exceptional organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams while maintaining attention to detail and momentum.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills - able to simplify complexity build buy-in and drive decisions.
• A strong builder / hustler mindset - high ownership resourceful outcome-focused and biased toward action.
• Comfort with tech-friendly tools and digital product environments; ability to work closely with tech teams and ideally basic familiarity with coding app launches or digital product deployment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

WeWork India is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our employees and members. Employment decisions are made without regard to race religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to embody our values and all aspects of employment including the decisions to hire and promote are based on merit competence performance and business needs.

Our total rewards philosophy is aimed at providing compensation that is competitive performance linked and helps us attract and retain the talent we need to drive our business forward and serve our members. As part of WeWork India our commitment to you is that youll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters collaboration flexibility and inclusion.