Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Apna sits at the intersection of SaaS-style product management and marketplace economics, where value is created by improving outcomes for two distinct customer groups. Featuring a Product Head for the Job Marketplace highlights a role that deals with platform health, matching quality, and engagement loops—problems that are increasingly relevant across subscription and usage-based SaaS businesses that operate multi-sided ecosystems.
From a SaaS career standpoint, this kind of charter builds durable strengths in metric ownership, experimentation discipline, and cross-functional operating cadence. The remit spans strategy through execution, with an emphasis on turning business goals into roadmaps and measurable systems—experience that translates well to SaaS environments where retention, activation, and lifecycle performance matter as much as new feature delivery.
This role fits a senior product leader who prefers broad accountability and is comfortable balancing long-horizon bets with near-term iteration. It will appeal to professionals who enjoy coordinating product, design, analytics, and go-to-market stakeholders, and who like working in contexts where data informs prioritisation but judgement still drives trade-offs.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Company Overview:
Since 2019, Apna has connected over 60 million jobseekers with more than 250,000 enterprises and small businesses across India. Founded by Nirmit Parikh, a Stanford graduate and serial entrepreneur who recognises the challenges in early-level hiring, Apna has rapidly grown to become India’s fastest unicorn in 2021 – achieving this milestone in just 21 months.Backed by marque global investors – Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, and GSV, we’re revolutionising livelihood creation across India.
Role Summary
We are seeking a product leader to own the end-to-end charter of Apna’s Job Marketplace—driving strategy, execution, and innovation across both sides of the platform: employers and candidates. This role is accountable for marketplace health, product velocity, and unlocking scalable 0→1→N growth systems.
Location: Bengaluru (Onsite)
Function: Product & Marketplace Leadership
Reports to: CEO, Job Marketplace
Key Responsibilities:
- Marketplace Product Ownership: Define and execute product strategy across demand (employers) and supply (jobseekers) to improve matching efficiency, hiring outcomes, and engagement.
- Leadership & Org Building: Lead PMs, AD–Product, Design, and Analytics. Build a strong bench, groom successors, and scale a high-output product organisation.
- Strategy + Execution: Translate business goals into clear product roadmaps; drive velocity, prioritization, and operational rigor across teams.
- Cross-Functional Influence: Work closely with Engineering, Growth, Sales, Operations, and Leadership to deliver outcomes, not just features.
- Data-led Decisioning: Use experimentation, insights, and analytics to drive marketplace health metrics (activation, liquidity, retention, success rates).
- Customer Understanding: Build deep empathy for employers and India’s mass-market workforce to shape solutions that are simple, reliable, and scalable.
- Innovation & Scale: Identify big bets, 10x opportunities, and structural fixes that unlock exponential growth for the marketplace.
What We’re Looking For
- 10–12+ years of product leadership in large-scale consumer internet/marketplace businesses.
- Strong understanding of two-sided marketplace dynamics and growth levers.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams (PM, Design, Analytics) with clarity and accountability.
- A rare blend of strategic depth + execution excellence; able to operate at both 30,000 ft and ground level.
- Proven success in scaling products, improving funnel and engagement metrics, and shipping fast with high quality.
- Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Why This Role Matters
This leader will shape the next chapter of Apna’s Job Marketplace—unlocking scale, product innovation, and marketplace efficiency for millions of jobseekers and employers across India.
