Program Manager

Job Title: Program Manager

Meraki Labs Location: Bangalore India

5 days on-site from HSR Bangalore

About Meraki Labs:

Meraki Labs is a startup incubation centre founded by Mukesh Bansal the builder behind Myntra Curefit and Nurix AI. We identify breakthrough ideas across technology health commerce education and AI and build them into companies from the ground up.

Our engineering foundation is led by Peeyush Ranjan formerly VP at Google VP of Engineering at Airbnb and CTO at Flipkart bringing world-class product and technical depth to every venture we back.

The Role:

This is a 01 builder role. This isnt a role with a defined scope. Youll be one of the earliest members of the Meraki Labs team working directly with the founders to identify validate and build our next venture before it has a name a product or a team.

That means youll do whatever the problem requires: market research one week customer interviews the next and then rolling up your sleeves to get an MVP off the ground. Youll be the person who figures things out when theres no playbook and who builds the playbook once you do. If youve been waiting for a chance to work at the very beginning of something this is it.

What Youll Actually Do:

• Spot and validate opportunities: Research markets map white spaces build hypotheses and pressure-test them with real data and real people.

• Own go-to-market from day one: Design and execute GTM strategies for products that are still being defined positioning pricing early customers the works.

• Get into the field: Talk to customers potential partners and domain experts constantly. Translate what you hear into decisions.

• Build before theres a team to build it: Write the copy set up the tools onboard the first users and find the first partners. You wont be delegating this.

• Set up how we work: As ventures take shape youll help build the operating cadence OKRs and internal systems that let us move fast without breaking things.

What Were Looking For:

3 - 6 years of experience ideally with an MBA from a strong programme paired with time in consulting startup growth or investment. Well equally consider exceptional candidates whove founded or co-founded a company and have the scar tissue to show for it even without a formal business degree.

• Youve worked close to zero: Youve been in an early-stage environment before and know what it feels like to build without a net. Or youve been at a larger place but were always the one who gravitated toward the ambiguous undefined problems.

• Technical enough to be dangerous: You dont need to code for us but youve engaged seriously with technology through a technical degree past work or genuine curiosity. You can read a system ask the right questions and build with no-code tools when you need to move fast.

• You bias toward action: Your default is to try something learn and iterate not to wait for a brief or approval.

• Youre genuinely curious: About markets about people about how things work. You read widely ask good questions and find the non-obvious angle.

This Probably Isnt for You If:

• You want a clear job description with defined deliverables this role will look different in three months than it does today.

• You like strategy but not the grind of execution youll be doing both often at the same time.

• You need a team around you to get things moving youll often be the team.

Why Meraki Labs:

• Work directly with founders whove built and scaled companies at the highest level.

• Be part of shaping what gets built next from the very first question.

• Competitive compensation with meaningful upside as ventures grow.

• A culture that runs on ownership not oversight.

The Recruiter for this role is Ritesh Kalvellu - You can connect with him for queries about the role.

Required Experience:

Manager