Senior Manager - Commerce Platform

Job description

**About the Team** The **Commerce Platform** team at Meesho drives end-to-end growth, strategy, and operational excellence across key verticals: - **User Growth:** Scales the full lifecycle funnel—from acquisition and activation to retention—ensuring sustainable user growth and engagement across the platform. - **Marketplace:** Focuses on strengthening the seller ecosystem and improving selection quality to create a robust and reliable marketplace experience. - **Category:** Identifies high-potential segments, launches and scales new categories, and drives assortment expansion to meet evolving customer demand. - **Mall:** Builds a trusted branded destination for quality-conscious users, enhancing the platform’s premium and branded shopping experience. - **Pricing:** Ensures competitiveness and affordability, enabling the platform to deliver strong value for customers while maintaining marketplace health. - **Content Commerce:** Powers content-led discovery through creator ecosystems and inspiration-driven shopping journeys that drive engagement, trust, and conversion. Together, these verticals identify whitespace opportunities, launch and scale new initiatives, and continuously optimize the user lifecycle through data-backed decisions. Operating in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment, the team combines structured problem-solving with rapid execution to deliver meaningful impact. If you’re excited about building for **Bharat**, this role offers both strategic depth and hands-on impact. **About the Role** As a **Senior Manager**, you will function as a high-impact leader responsible for driving strategic initiatives that contribute directly to our GMV, NMV, and expansion of our user, seller, and creator base. You will own end-to-end problem-solving for critical workstreams, managing both demand and supply-side challenges while ensuring operational excellence. This role requires high fungibility, as you will navigate various sub-organizations to implement programs that make the platform more lucrative for users, partners, and creators alike. ### What you will do - **Strategy & Problem Solving:** Identify 10x impact opportunities and build conviction through opportunity sizing and early experiments to scale a charter into an impactful one. - **End-to-End Ownership:** Own the ideation, implementation, and delivery of key business metrics (P&L, GMV, or KRs) for your workstream. - **Stakeholder Management:** Collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams including Product, Tech, Design, Analytics, Marketing, and Finance to deliver on defined business objectives. - **Program Management:** Optimize processes, mitigate risks, and align cross-functional pods to drive efficiency in large-scale programs, crafting KPIs to drive operational excellence. - **Data-Driven Execution:** Deep dive into complex program details, track business-critical metrics, and present data-based arguments and solutions to senior leadership. - **Leadership & Coaching:** Manage and coach a high-performing team of associates and managers, fostering an environment of fast-track growth and excellence. - **Vision & Roadmap:** Understand the market landscape and customer behavior to decide the long-term roadmap for relevant business plans. ### What you will need - **Education:** Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from a top-tier institute. - **Experience:** At least 6+ years of Growth, Strategy & Ops experience in Management Consulting, or a high-growth startup environment. - **Analytical Aptitude:** Strong "problem-first" thinking with the ability to break down complex problem statements into actionable components. - **Executional Experience and P&L/KPI Ownership:** Demonstrated executional experience in driving initiatives end-to-end, along with ownership of business KPIs and/or P&L metrics, with accountability for measurable outcomes. - **Communication:** Excellent negotiation and communication skills to align multiple stakeholders on a long-term vision and generate buy-in. - **People Leadership:** Proven ability to motivate and lead teams while advocating for user-driven decisions. - **Adaptability:** Ability to figure out areas of improvement for various business categories and Meesho as a whole.