ClearTax - Strategy & Operations Lead - IIM/ISB/XLRI/FMS/MDI

Strategy & Operations Lead (Top Institutes Only)

About ClearTax:

ClearTax (cleartax.com) is a leading fintech startup in India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Max Levchin, Founders Fund, Sequoia, SAIF Partners, Naval Ravikant, Neeraj Arora, and Scott Banister. We are well funded with a runway for the next 4 years. In 2014, ClearTax became the first India focused startup funded by prestigious Silicon Valley investor, Y Combinator.

Our mission: To Simplify the financial lives of individuals and businesses in India with software.

Today, ClearTax is used by over a million Indian tax payers, 10,000+ CA firms and 20,000 Businesses. We are the largest platform in India in this space.

What's next-

We are building many more use cases beyond taxes.

- We are helping Individuals save more on Taxes and create more wealth and prosperity for them.

- We are helping businesses getting started, and providing them with financial software so that business owners can focus on just running their business and not on paperwork.

Position: Strategy & Operations Lead

The role involves defining the strategy for how ClearTax goes to market for its new initiatives. These include the CA services marketplace and GST (Goods and Services Tax).

- We are looking for an extremely ambitious person who wants to build a world class organisation from the grounds up.

- Developing the operational strategy, defining key initiatives and leading the program management.

- Ownership of P&L.

- Hiring people to operationalise the plan. Scaling up the operations.

- Bringing in cost efficiency as we scale.

- Work in a cross-functional environment, working across Product, Engineering, Sales and Marketing teams.

- Setting up KPIs for various business streams, building cadence to monitor progress.

Come shape the future of financial software for millions of Indians.

Why is this a great opportunity for you-

- Massive Impact: Change the way how India does taxes. No joke. ClearTax is the market leader and our product shapes how millions of Indians experience taxes.

- Large Ambition: We are looking to build an empire together. Finance is going to be eaten by software and technology. We are here first.

- Great People: You'll be surrounded by some of the smartest, nicest, ambitious people. You- ll get to work hard with zero bureaucracy.

- Fantastic role: You get to be in the driver's seat. Drive the product, marketing, sales and business functions. You get to own the outcome.

- Huge challenge: We believe in small teams. We believe in building businesses with minimal capital. This is not easy. It requires ingenuity, patience and deep hustle.

Desired Qualities

You should apply if you are ambitious and want to change how Indian finances work. We love to work with founders who want to come join our mission. We have no bias about your background.

- Strong familiarity with consumer internet space

- Excellent communication and persuasion skills

- Tenacity and sense of urgency; the ability make things happen quickly; roll up sleeves and do whatever is necessary to meet team goals

- Strong bias for action; the ability to juggle multiple priorities and excel in a lean work environment

- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; strong bias towards data-based decision making, and comfort with financial and operational analysis