Strategy & Operations Associate

Our mission is to make a world where everyone has access to delivery. Where goods move as freely as information moves today.

This is possible. Today the cost of moving on a scooter is ₹2/km. That’s the cost of moving a 150kg mass from point A to B. We’re bringing that mass down to less than 5kgs, concurrently bringing the cost down to 10 paise/km. This is how we make deliveries a reality. This is how we create a world where we’re doing billions of deliveries per day.

The tech is not there. The current cost of drone delivery is ₹100/km. We need to completely redefine the way things are done here. We’re building the world’s most efficient aircraft from the ground-up, and scaling that up to beyond anything the aerospace sector has ever seen. This cannot be an iterative process. We have to tear down all conventions and build everything up from scratch.

To do this, we need nothing less than the best engineers. The ones who care about building something fundamentally different, who are deeply curious about understanding the fundamentals of everything they’re working on, who are dreamers that believe in the impossible.

Operations run Airbound's fleet and makes sure every flight is safe, on time and cost-effective. At our stage it is a strategic pillar, not a support function: it drives growth and shapes what we build. The team owns launch-site selection and setup, flight planning, fleet utilisation and client onboarding. We monitor weather, collate flight data and mine historical patterns for predictive analytics, and we write the SOPs that keep the network safe. We also own the big-ticket problems, such as cost optimization and pricing strategy. Operations is the glue that holds Airbound together. We work with engineering to turn growth ambitions into a detailed operations roadmap that directly informs product design and engineering priorities. We decide with data, not instinct. We form hypotheses, then prove or disprove them with flight logs, delivery times and cost metrics. We are process-obsessed and biased toward fast execution, always asking how we can deliver better, faster and cheaper.

The Strategy & Operations Associate works directly with the Chief of Staff and the Head of Operations on high-impact projects across the Ops team. A core part of the role is building operational and financial models that project costs under different scenarios and inform how we price our delivery services. The role is full-time and on-site (no remote work), with substantial room to grow within the company.

Familiarity with SQL, Python or Tableau

Experience coordinating cross-functional projects

Work location: Hoskote, Bangalore (Headquarters) #LI-AR1

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