Strategy Lead

Job description

**About Noise** Noise was built on a simple belief: India can build world-class consumer tech. Today, we are India’s #1 smartwatch brand, #2 in TWS audio, with 40M+ users – and now backed by Bose as a strategic investor. The next phase is sharper: building a globally relevant, AI-native company where every function compounds leverage, not headcount. **Why this role exists** The Founder’s Office is not a support function. It is founder bandwidth, multiplied. The founders have more high-stakes questions than hours – this role takes the ones that are too ambiguous, too cross-cutting, or too important to hand off, and turns them into clarity and motion. This is a founder-partner role. You will sit where the biggest decisions get made: - What we bet on next - How we get there - What we choose not to do If your instinct is to wait for instructions, this won’t work. If your instinct is to take the ambiguous problem and come back with a plan, read on. **What Success Looks Like** Not meetings attended. Not decks produced. Better decisions, made faster – and founders freed to do only what founders can. Leverage, not activity. **What Will You Own** - Founder Leverage Take the problems the founders can’t yet delegate – ambiguous, unowned, high-stakes – and turn them into owned outcomes. Give the founders back their scarcest resource: attention. - Strategic Bets Drive the hardest cross-functional questions from problem to decision to execution. New markets, new categories, partnerships– the bets that shape the next five years. - Zero-to-One Stand up for what doesn’t exist yet. When there’s no team, no playbook, and no clear owner, you are the owner – until it’s real enough to hand off. - Company Clarity Turn founder intent into company direction. Make sure the whole company knows what matters most right now, and why – and that the top priorities never get lost in the noise. - Decision Quality Bring truth to the table. Cut through opinion with data, sharp framing, and honest options. Make it easy for the founders to make the right call, fast. - Cross-Functional Force Move across GTM, Product, Design, Tech, and Ops without needing a title to do it. Earn trust fast, align people who don’t report to you, and make the important things happen. **Who You Are** - A first-principles thinker – energised, not paralysed, by ambiguity - AI-native in how you think and work - Equally sharp at 30,000 feet and in the detail - High-agency – you take the problem, not just the task - Low-ego – you make founders and teams better without needing the credit - A magnet for trust – people give you the hard problems because you come back with answers - 6–8 years across high-growth startups, product/tech, consulting, or a founder’s office – with real ownership of ambiguous, high-stakes work **What Won’t Work** - Waiting to be told what to do - Being a note-taker or a meeting scheduler - Incremental thinking - Comfort with “good enough” **Why this is a career-defining role** You don’t often get to sit at the centre of a company at this moment – with founder access, a real mandate, and global ambition – and build the judgment that only comes from being where the biggest calls get made. This is one of those times. **Job location:** Gurugram