Senior Category Manager

About Virohan

Founded in 2018, by Kunaal Dudeja, Nalin Saluja and Archit Jayaswal, Virohan is an education-to-industry partner, shaping the future of healthcare education. It enables India's top universities to deliver best-in-class undergraduate programs such as Optometry, MLT, Hospital Administration, OTT, MRIT, and more. Combining cutting-edge technology, learner-centric innovations, and strong industry partnerships, Virohan equips students with skills that go beyond degrees, preparing them for meaningful careers in healthcare. By 2030, Virohan aims to impact a million aspiring healthcare professionals and collaborate with over 100 universities across India to transform education and strengthen healthcare. We are backed by Blume Ventures, Rebright Partners (Japan), Elea Foundation and Artha Impact (Switzerland), Yunus Social Business (Germany), AngelList, and Keiretsu Forum, among others. Virohan operates at the intersection of education and Healthcare—two industries that have entered a new phase of rapid growth post-pandemic. The time to make your mark in this space is now! We’re looking for entrepreneurs to join us in building the next unicorn.

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About the Role We are looking for a Senior Category Manager to build and drive the long-term Candidate Success strategy at Virohan. This is not only an execution role—it’s a strategy + operating model role: someone who can define what “great student success” looks like at scale, architect the levers that drive it (retention, engagement, learning outcomes), and create the systems, processes, and cross-functional alignment needed to sustain performance over multiple years.

The role is ideal for someone who has worked as a Category Manager / Program Manager / Growth Manager / Strategy & Ops / Consulting and is excited to: • Identify the biggest strategic bottlenecks in the student lifecycle • Design scalable interventions • Institutionalize playbooks that become “how we run Candidate Success” at Virohan You will operate across the full lifecycle: • Diagnose systemic problems • Pilot and validate solutions • Scale and institutionalize them into repeatable engines of student outcomes

What You’ll Own 1. Define the Candidate Success Strategy & North Star Metrics • Build a multi-year view of what student success means across programs, centres, and cohorts • Define and track North Star and leading indicators across: retention, engagement, attendance, academic progression, and completion • Create dashboards and strategic frameworks to monitor the health of the funnel and predict drop-offs early • Lead structured root-cause analysis to translate broad challenges into solvable strategic problem statements 2. Build the Candidate Success Growth Engine (Experimentation → Scale) • Identify and prioritize the highest-leverage initiatives based on impact, urgency, ROI, and scalability • Design interventions to improve student behaviour, support, delivery quality, and learning outcomes • Own pilots end-to-end: hypothesis → design → rollout → measurement → iteration → recommendation • Establish decision frameworks for what gets scaled and what gets stopped—ensuring focus on long-term value 3. Institutionalize Successful Solutions into Operating Systems • Convert winning pilots into standard operating mechanisms: SOPs, playbooks, workflows, training, and governance • Drive cross-functional rollout with Operations, Academics, Product, and Centre teams—ensuring adoption at scale • Build adherence metrics and monitoring systems to ensure consistency across centres and cohorts • Partner with Product/Tech to embed success levers into systems—so outcomes don’t depend on heroics, but on design You are the right fit if: • You have 4–8 years experience in Strategy & Ops / Growth / Category / Program Management / Consulting • You’ve owned outcomes for a vertical/program with clear KPIs and recurring delivery cycles • You are strong at using data to diagnose problems and create structured, strategic problem decomposition • You’ve built interventions, run pilots, and scaled programs across teams and geographies • You communicate clearly, influence without authority, and can drive alignment across multiple stakeholders • You enjoy creating long-term systems while delivering short-term measurable impact What’s in it for you: • Opportunity to shape the long-term Candidate Success blueprint for Virohan as we scale across India • High visibility role working on company-defining metrics: retention, engagement, learning, and completion • A chance to build the “Candidate Success operating system” that becomes a core strategic moat for Virohan • Strong growth runway into larger strategic leadership roles (Candidate Success Strategy, Central Programs, Business Strategy, Strategy & Ops leadership) • Competitive compensation, ownership, and a culture driven by problem-solving and continuous improvement.