Corporate Strategy Manager

About Us

Curlec is a full-stack payments solution that makes it easy for businesses of all sizes to collect payments, automate payouts and take control of their cash flow.

Today, Curlec is part of the Razorpay group - India’s leading Payments and Banking Platform for businesses. The company serves over 10 million businesses and is backed by some of the world's marquee investors that include Sequoia Capital India, Tiger Global, Lone Pine Capital and TCV, and was part of the prestigious Silicon Valley tech accelerator, Y Combinator.

Curlec is seeking a Corporate Strategy Associate to work directly with the CEO and its leadership team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the CEO and learn how to build a business and bring it to life. For anyone wanting to start their own company someday, this is a great opportunity to be involved in setting something up and learning on the front line
• Contribute to operational and logistical matters – helping sort out day-to-day challenges
• Proficient in transforming business data into actionable insights through systematic and defined analysis methodologies
• Strategy development, including project scoping, hypotheses development, financial and business modelling, strategic options identification, consensus building, and implementation. Projects will include defining and tracking annual company-wide objectives and key results (OKRs), helping with financials, and building business cases for strategic initiatives
• Evaluate the performance of current business operations and identify, own & solve for challenges to help achieve OKRs
• Develop analytical frameworks to support the company in new markets and products, drive analysis that could lead to innovative projects, and boost the company’s expansion
• Coordinate internal stakeholders (Product, Sales, Marketing, Tech) and ensure alignment with the company’s vision and goals
• Facilitate and coordinate leadership meetings, ensuring that key decisions and action items are documented, communicated and addressed
• Creating literature for internal (decks for founders, CXOs) as well as external consumption (events, pitches)
• This is not a typical 9-5 role, so don’t apply if you’re expecting one!

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of work experience in a fast-paced environment (Consulting / Investment Banking / Startup)
• Extremely driven strategic thinker with strong business acumen - we are growing fast and want someone who wants to take their career to the next level with us
• Adept analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make logical, data-driven decisions
• Effective stakeholder management across functions & hierarchies, with exceptional communication skills
• Comfortable with using tools such as PowerPoint/Google Slides, Excel/Google Sheets or other data analysis tools
• Iterative and quick learner – we are a fast growing company in an extremely fluid industry. We like to test, break, learn and scale
• Being able to balance attention to detail with swift execution - we need to do things quickly, and we need to do them well. Balancing those can be challenging, and this should be a strength
• Self-starter attitude - the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective in this role
• Excellent program management skills - you bring impressive know-how (and the understanding that there’s always more to learn)

Benefits :

• Competitive salary
• Work with the company’s leadership team and have regular direct interaction with the senior leadership of Curlec and Razorpay
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to join an award winning startup that is now part of the Razorpay group, one of the fastest growing fintech companies in the world
• Grow with us. Working in the intersection of Fintech and SaaS, you will have the opportunities to grow in this thriving sector