New Ventures & Strategic Initiative

About Ownly

At OWNLY (Backed by Rapido) we’re on a mission to make food delivery simple, fair, and exactly what you ordered and nothing extra. Our team is built of problem-solvers, innovators, and doers, all working to make OWNLY the most trusted way to get your food without hidden charges or inflated prices and we’re just getting started. We connect customers to their favourite restaurants through our reliable delivery network, while helping restaurant partners keep more of what they earn. As we grow, our focus remains the same: fair pricing, honest service, and a platform that respects everyone involved in the journey from kitchen to doorstep.

About the Role:

Own a portfolio of new ventures, growth programs and strategic initiatives across Ownly. Responsible for identifying opportunities, building business cases, launching pilots, driving cross-functional execution and determining whether initiatives should scale into meaningful business lines or be discontinued. Success is defined by building sustainable growth engines and durable competitive advantages.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Own new ventures from ideation through launch, validation, and scale.
• Identify new business opportunities and evaluate market potential.
• Develop business cases, financial models, and go-to-market strategies.
• Lead pilot programs and validate business hypotheses through experiments.
• Drive cross-functional execution with Product, Marketing, Business, and Operations teams.
• Define success metrics, monitor performance, and optimize initiatives using data.
• Influence product roadmap and prioritization to support business goals.
• Design scalable operating models and processes for new ventures.
• Plan and execute city or market rollouts for successful initiatives.
• Take end-to-end ownership of business outcomes, including revenue and growth.
• Make data-driven decisions to scale successful ventures or discontinue underperforming initiatives.
• Build sustainable growth engines that create long-term competitive advantage.

Must Have:

• Strong ownership mindset with end-to-end accountability.
• Entrepreneurial thinking and venture-building experience.
• Excellent execution and project management skills.
• Strong commercial acumen and business judgment.
• Ability to identify and evaluate new business opportunities.
• Experience building business cases and growth strategies.
• Structured problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Good understanding of unit economics and business metrics.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
• Product thinking with the ability to influence product decisions.
• Data-driven experimentation and decision-making mindset.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Resourcefulness and ability to thrive in ambiguous environments.
• Scalability mindset with experience building repeatable processes.
• Willingness to make difficult decisions, including shutting down unsuccessful initiatives.
• Experience in startup, new business, strategic initiatives, or 0→1 business-building environments.