Associate Director - Commerce Platform

The Commerce Platform team at Meesho drives end-to-end growth, strategy, and operational excellence across key verticals. As an Associate Director – Programs, you will be a senior leader responsible for one or more strategic charters that drive key business and customer outcomes.

What You Will Do

• Strategy & Problem Solving: Identify 10x impact opportunities across your charter and build conviction through opportunity sizing and early experiments to scale a charter into a company-level bet.
• End-to-End Ownership: Own the ideation, implementation, and delivery of key business metrics (P&L, GMV, NMV, or KRs) across the workstreams in your charter.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Tech, Design, Analytics, Marketing, Finance, and Operations to align on and deliver business objectives.
• Program Management: Build and defend a prioritization framework across immediate, medium, and long-term goals; craft KPIs and reporting/monitoring cadences that drive efficiency and operational excellence across large-scale programs.
• Data-Driven Execution & RCA: Own rigorous root-cause analyses when business-critical metrics move , distinguishing genuine signal from noise, selection effects, or measurement artifacts , and present data-backed solutions to senior leadership.
• People Leadership: Manage, coach, and grow a team of Senior Managers and Managers on select workstreams while directly driving other high-priority initiatives as an individual contributor.
• Vision & Roadmap: Understand the market landscape and customer/seller behavior to define the medium- to long-term (12–18 month+) roadmap for your charter areas.
• Represent the Business View: Represent the business perspective in cross-functional forums , pushing back on framings that don't hold up, and ensuring decisions are grounded in actual user/seller/business realities.
• Talent & Team Building: Hire, coach, and develop Senior Managers and Managers on your team; act as a talent magnet for the org, and build a psychologically safe, autonomous culture where the team can take bold bets and fail fast.
• Speed & Org-Level Unblocking: Set the org's cadence for fast, high-quality decision-making , aligning cross-functional stakeholders and dependencies (people, process, tools) so teams can move from V1 to V2/V3 quickly, without compromising quality.
• Long-Term Vision & BHAGs: Define the 2–3 year roadmap and help shape Meesho's BHAGs for your charter areas, continuously evaluating direction and course-correcting to stay aligned to long-term goals.

What You will Need

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree from a top-tier institute.
• Experience: 7–10+ years of relevant experience in Growth, Strategy & Ops, Management Consulting, or a high-growth startup/e-commerce environment.
• Analytical Aptitude: Strong "problem-first" thinking with the ability to break down complex, ambiguous problem statements into structured, actionable plans.
• 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 at scale.
• Communication: Excellent negotiation and communication skills to align multiple senior stakeholders on a long-term vision and generate buy-in.
• People Leadership: Proven ability to hire, manage, mentor, and develop teams (including Senior Managers/Managers), alongside a strong track record of hands-on individual execution.
• Adaptability: Ability to identify areas of improvement across business categories and Meesho as a whole, and to operate with high fungibility across sub-organizations.
• Growth Mindset: Demonstrated track record of building a culture of continuous learning and feedback , for yourself and your team.