Associate Director |

Program Manager | Build Sprint (AI Products)

Location: Bangalore, India (Hybrid — core programme online, team and partner buildathons in person)

Company: GrowthX

About GrowthX

GrowthX is a private community that helps professionals grow their careers in an AI-first world.

Over 5,000 vetted professionals from companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Lovable, Sarvam AI, ElevenLabs, Meta AI, Jio, HUL, ITC, and Coca-Cola rely on GrowthX to grow their careers.

About the Role

As the Program Manager for Build Sprint, you won't just run it. You'll own Build Sprint as a product: fill it, teach it, improve it, and be accountable for whether people actually ship.

We're looking for someone who can build AI-native products, teach others to build them, and turn a four-week programme into measurable outcomes.

What Is Build Sprint?

Build Sprint is four weeks of live, hands-on learning where participants build an AI-native product — a product that couldn't exist without AI — learn to sell it, and work towards an AI certification.

The cohort includes product managers, marketers, designers, founders, and engineers. Some have never opened a terminal. Others sell inference for a living.

There are no classes in the traditional sense. People build first, get stuck, and we teach into the moment they get stuck.

Build Sprint runs four times a year. Today, our founder teaches most sessions, alongside guest experts. We're looking for someone who can teach it just as well, eventually better, and own the programme end to end.

How the Year Works

During cohorts (4 weeks):

Run the entire cohort, including live sessions, community engagement, and weekend activities. You'll have the flexibility to take time back between cohorts.

Between cohorts (approximately 2 months):

Improve what didn't work in the previous cohort, refine the curriculum, brief guest experts, run partner buildathons, and publish an outcome report.

The core programme is online. Team collaboration and partner buildathons happen in person in Bangalore.

What This Role Is Not

• Not a traditional programme management role. Operations matter, but if you'd rather manage calendars than teach, this isn't the role.
• Not a content creator role. Reach is nice, but whether builders actually ship is what matters.

What You'll Own

1. Teach Live

Teach participants how to take an idea, build a working AI-native product, and sell it.

This includes idea validation and scoping, agentic coding, frontend and backend development, memory and harnesses, design taste, positioning, identifying a specific buyer, selling through social channels, and creating launch videos.

You should be comfortable opening Claude Code or Codex in front of 100 people and building something live without hiding behind a presentation.

2. Scope Product Ideas Live

Participants will arrive with vague, ambitious ideas.

Your job is to turn those ideas into something shippable: one user, one problem, and one clearly defined scope.

You should be able to challenge a weak AI wrapper without discouraging the person building it.

3. Own the Curriculum

Start with the outcome each session must produce, then design the chapters, exercises, and examples needed to achieve it.

Use evidence from live questions, community discussions, AI tutor conversations, submissions, and participant drop-offs to continuously improve the learning experience.

4. Own Programme Outcomes

After every cohort, you should be able to answer:

• How many participants shipped a working product?
• How many acquired real users?
• How many made their first sale?
• How many completed the programme?
• How many earned their certification?
• What were the CSAT and refund rates?
• How many returned for another GrowthX programme?

You'll own the outcome report after every cohort and the improvements that follow.

5. Own the Certification

Define what participants must build and demonstrate to earn the Build Sprint certification.

Establish clear evaluation criteria, assess submissions, and maintain a meaningful standard.

A certificate that everyone receives isn't worth much.

6. Raise the Bar for Guest Sessions

Brief guest experts around a measurable learning outcome, not just a topic.

Every 60-minute session should leave participants capable of doing something they couldn't do before.

Attend sessions, evaluate effectiveness, and continuously improve the experience.

7. Maintain Product Consistency

Ensure the handbook, AI tutor knowledge, leaderboard, and live curriculum remain aligned across every cohort.

The learning experience should be cohesive, accurate, and continuously improving.

8. Build and Lead Your Team

Hire and lead one Learning Experience Associate who will support programme execution, participant experience, and ongoing improvements.

You Might Be Right for This Role If

• You've built and shipped AI products that real people actively use.
• You can build live using Claude Code or Codex without relying on a script.
• You've taught people before, and they've wanted to learn from you again.
• You can turn an ambiguous product idea into something useful and shippable.
• You can give direct, constructive feedback without discouraging builders.
• You've sold something before and understand how to attract and convert an audience.
• You enjoy combining product thinking, technical execution, teaching, and ownership.

How to Apply

Apply with these three things:

1. Something you've built

Share an AI product you've built that real people use. Tell us what it does and how many people use it.

2. Something you've taught (optional)

Share a link to an unedited recording of yourself teaching something live.

Don't have one? Record yourself teaching a concept for 10 minutes.

3. A product-scoping exercise (under 200 words)

A builder comes to you and says:

"I want to build an AI CRM for legal counsels."

What questions would you ask first, and what's the first version you'd let them ship?

We're looking for how you think, scope, and prioritise — not a perfect answer.