Growth Associate

                         Growth Associate About NxtWave  

NxtWave was founded by Rahul Attuluri (Ex-Amazon, IIIT Hyderabad), Sashank Reddy (IIT Bombay), and Anupam Pedarla (IIT Kharagpur). In February 2023, NxtWave raised ₹275 crore, led by Greater Pacific Capital, a leading international private equity firm. The startup is also backed by Orios Ventures, Better Capital, and marquee angels, including the founders of some of India’s unicorns.

NxtWave is one of India’s fastest-growing Ed-Tech startups, revolutionising the 21st-century job market by transforming youth into highly skilled tech professionals irrespective of their educational background with its CCBP 4.0 programs.

As an official partner for NSDC under the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Government of India, and recognized by NASSCOM, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, and Startup India, NxtWave has earned a reputation for excellence. The startup has received accolades such as ‘The Greatest Brand in Education’ in a research-based listing by URS Media, a leading international media house. NxtWave has also been honoured with the "Startup Spotlight Award 2023" by T-Hub on its 8th Foundation Day.

Recently, NxtWave’s founders, Anupam Pedarla and Sashank Gujjula, were honoured in the 2024 Forbes India 30 Under 30 for their exceptional contribution to transforming the tech education landscape in India.

The edtech brand eliminates the entry barrier to learning tech skills by offering vernacular content and interactive learning. Learning in one’s mother tongue helps achieve higher comprehension, deeper attention, longer retention, and greater outcomes.

Presently, NxtWave has paid subscribers from 647+ districts across India. In just 2.5 years, CCBP 4.0 learners have been hired by 2000companies, including Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Goldman Sachs, Oracle, Deloitte, and more.

Know more about NxtWave:

• Next wave of opportunities with 1700+ companies:Link

• 33M funding news:Link

• YouTube Channel:Link

At NxtWave, As a Growth Associate, you will own and operate NxtWave’s growth across a portfolio of Tier-1 & Tier-2 campuses. You are responsible for driving acquisition, activation, and student success stories across multiple colleges.

You will design and execute scalable growth strategies across your campuses, including on-ground activations, ambassador programs, referral loops, and digital campaigns  to consistently drive new student acquisition and ensure strong onboarding into NxtWave’s ecosystem. You will track campus-wise metrics such as sign-ups, active learners, engagement, and success stories.

You will build, train, and manage student leadership teams across campuses, ensuring each campus has strong local execution while you maintain centralized visibility and control over performance. Your role is to make NxtWave the default career platform across every campus you manage.

You will also act as the growth and feedback engine between students and the central NxtWave team, aggregating insights from multiple campuses, identifying patterns, and helping shape product, pricing, and go-to-market decisions at a national level.

If you know how to get things done on campus, and want to run a multi-campus growth business while impacting thousands of students, this role is built for you.

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive student acquisition and onboarding at scale across assigned campuses, owning total students onboarded and % penetration

• Design, execute, and iterate growth experiments to improve reach, conversion, and onboarding velocity on campuses

• Build, manage, and mentor campus ambassador teams to consistently execute high-quality events, branding videos, and student-led UGC

• Own end-to-end execution of campus initiatives to ensure smooth operations and strong NxtWave brand presence

• Drive onboarding-to-activation conversion by guiding students based on defined career tracks and engagement guidelines

• Act as a trusted mentor and ecosystem guide for students to improve consistency, engagement, and retention

• Work closely with central teams to share learnings, scale successful growth playbooks, and continuously improve campus outcomes

Who We’re Looking For:

• Passionate about student careers and their growth

• Proactive, high-ownership, go-getter mindset

• Experience in Growth / Business Development / Sales / Campus Programs

• Comfortable running experiments and working on-ground

• Strong at influencing, mentoring, and leading student teams

• Outcome-driven, not task-driven

• Strong communication and reporting skills

• Work Location: Hyderabad

• Job Type:  Full time

• Working Days: 6 days a week