Senior Business Manager

Senior Manager - Commerce Platform

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.About us 
Welcome to Meesho, where every story begins with a spark of inspiration and a dash of entrepreneurial spirit. We're not just a platform; we're your partner in turning dreams into realities.
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Our Mission
Democratising internet commerce for everyone — Meesho (Meri Shop) started with a single idea in mind: to be an e-commerce destination for Indian consumers and to enable small businesses to succeed online.
We provide our sellers with benefits such as zero commission and affordable shipping solutions in the market. Today, sellers nationwide are growing their businesses by tapping into Meesho’s large and diverse customer base, state-of-the-art tech infrastructure, and pan-India logistics network through trusted third-party partners.
Affordable, relatable merchandise that mirrors local markets has helped us connect with internet users and serve customers across urban, semi-urban, and rural India. Our unique business model and continuous innovation have established us as a part of India’s e-commerce ecosystem.
Culture and Total Rewards
Our focus is on cultivating a dynamic workplace characterized by high impact and performance excellence. We prioritize a people-centric culture, dedicated to hiring and developing exceptional talent.
Total rewards at Meesho comprise a comprehensive set of elements — monetary, non-monetary, tangible, and intangible. Our 9 guiding principles, or "Mantras," are the backbone of how we operate, influencing everything from recognition and evaluation to growth discussions. Daily rituals and processes like “Problem First Mindset,” “Listen or Die,” our Internal Mobility Program, Talent Reviews, and Continuous Performance Management embody these principles.
We offer competitive compensation — both cash and equity-based — tailored to job roles, individual experience, and skill, along with employee-centric benefits and a supportive work environment. Our holistic wellness program, MeeCare, includes benefits across physical, mental, financial, and social wellness. This includes extensive medical insurance for employees and their families, wellness initiatives like telehealth, wellness events, and fitness-related perks.
To support work-life balance, we offer generous leave policies, parental support, retirement benefits, and learning and development assistance. Through personalized recognition, gratitude for stretched work, and engaging activities, we promote employee delight at the workplace. Additional benefits such as salary advance support, relocation assistance, and flexible benefit plans further enrich the Meesho experience.
Know more about Meesho here : https://www.meesho.io/

Experience Level

Senior Level