Management Trainee - Founder's Office (Innovation & Product Strategy)

Job description: Management Trainee – Founder's Office (Innovation & Product Strategy)Company: Deconstruct (Baypure Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd.)Location: Bangalore, India (on-site)Department: Founder's OfficeExperience: 0–2 years (relevant internships count)Role overviewWe are looking for a Management Trainee to join the Founder's Office and work on innovation and product strategy. You will help answer what Deconstruct should build next and why: finding opportunities in consumer and market data, testing them with research, building the business case, and driving priority initiatives across teams until they ship.This is a strategy and execution role. You will work closely with the founders and with Brand, R&D, NPD, Supply Chain, Finance and Regulatory teams.Key responsibilitiesInnovation & product strategy: Identify white spaces across categories, formats, price points and channels. Turn them into clear product opportunities and inputs for the product roadmap.Consumer research: Plan and run consumer research: surveys, interviews, review mining on marketplaces, and social listening. Convert findings into sharp, usable insights.Data analysis & insighting: Analyse sales, marketplace, search-trend and competitor data..Market & competitor intelligence: Track the D2C beauty landscape, global trends and competitor launches. Flag what matters and what it means for Deconstruct.Project management: Own founder-priority initiatives end to end. Set timelines, align cross-functional teams, track progress and remove blockers until decisions are made and projects go live.Founder-ready communication: Prepare crisp decks, memos and review notes that help the founders make decisions. Special projects: Take on other strategic projects from the Founder's Office as priorities evolve.Qualifications & skillsEducationUndergraduate or postgraduate degree from a Tier 1 or Tier 2 institute in business, commerce or technology (e.g. MBA/PGDM, BBA, B.Com, B.Tech/BE).Core skillsFirst-principles thinking (non-negotiable): Breaks problems down to their fundamentals, questions assumptions, and builds answers from the ground up rather than copying what was done before.Problem solving: Structures ambiguous problems, finds root causes and lands on practical solutions.Basic data analysis & insighting: Comfortable with Excel/Google Sheets; can move from numbers to a clear 'so what'. SQL or BI tools are a plus.Consumer research: Can design and run research and read consumer signals with judgement and discretion.Project management: Plans work, manages timelines and keeps multiple stakeholders moving.Soft skillsHigh ownership: Treats outcomes as their own and follows through without being chased.Bias for action: Moves fast, tests quickly and prefers progress over perfect plans.Cross-functional collaboration: Works well with cross-functional teams and is able to collaborate with and influencer stakeholders across the org through clarity and trust.Interest in the category: Genuine curiosity about skincare, beauty and D2C consumer brands.