Program Manager, IPs & Events

• The programme, end to end: for each IP you hold, the annual date, the edition scope, the T-minus plan from ninety days out, the dependency map across content, marketing, design, operations, account management and speakers, and the go-live sequence for the website, the agenda and the room.
• The tracker that everyone works from: one live view per IP with stage, owner and due date. You keep it true. When something slips, you know three weeks before delivery does, and you say so.
• The cost sheet: vendor, venue, production and travel economics for each edition, built early, updated as decisions land, reconciled after. You will make the model-level cost calls with the founders (six hundred people or four hundred, dinner or lunch, how many VIP tiers) and hold the envelope once it is set.
• The convening: a weekly cadence per live IP that brings five teams into one room and leaves with named owners and dates. You will be the neck below the founders that every cross-team question goes to first.
• Quality control, ensured not done: you do not write the agenda or design the deck. You make sure the people who do have what they need, on time, and that the founder review happens once and early rather than five times and late.
• The retro: what shipped, what slipped, what we fix next edition, written within a week of the room closing.

• You have run programmes to a date with many moving parts: a launch calendar, an accelerator cohort, a live-events bet inside a consumer company, a chief-of-staff seat where you owned the operating rhythm. Something with real dependencies, real vendors and a day it had to be done.
• You are precise about operations and honest about slippage: you keep the tracker true even when the truth is uncomfortable, and you escalate early rather than heroically late.
• You convene without authority: you have made senior people from other teams show up, commit and deliver without being their manager.
• You are good with a cost sheet: you have built one, owned one, and been held to one.
• You build systems as you go: templates, checklists, the T-minus that gets reused. You would rather fix the process than run the same fire drill twice.
• You use AI as a working tool, for first drafts, research, summaries and versioning, and you know where it stops and judgment starts.
• You have taste for rooms: you understand why a smaller, better room beats a bigger one, and you have an opinion about it.

• Ownership of named IPs that Indias founders, investors and operators already plan their year around.
• A visible ladder: Program Manager to Senior Program Manager to the portfolio seat, with the criteria written down.
• A small team, decisions in the room, direct access to the founders and to the people who build the rooms.
• Compensation aligned to experience, plus meaningful ESOPs.
• Delhi-based, in-person. Travel for editions.

Required Skills