Practice Head

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 8000000 - Rs 10000000 (ie INR 80-100 LPA)

Min Experience: 15+ years
Location: Hyderabad, Bengaluru, NCR
JobType: full-time

The rare person who has lived in three rooms and was at home in all of them. The engineering room, where the architecture gets argued. The product room, where the roadmap gets cut and business strategy gets formed. The client room, where the problem gets discussed and the business case gets won. Most people are fluent in one and tourists in the others. We need someone fluent in all three — who can take a product, shape it into a solution a specific enterprise will actually deploy, and own that as a practice with a P&L attached. Not a coordinator who routes between specialists. The person who is the connective tissue.

WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?

Engineer first — and never stopped thinking like one, even after the title changed. 12–18 years building software, shaping products, or architecting solutions that had to survive contact with a real enterprise. Along the way you've worn at least two of these hats for real, not in name: solution architect, product manager, practice or delivery lead. MBA optional. Earned credibility is not. Someone who is comfortable talking to customers and building relationships. 

WHERE DO WE LOOK?

We look where solutions actually get made — where a platform alone isn't enough, and someone has to bend it into something a specific customer will pay for and trust in production. Four pools matter:

• Product companies where PMs are technical to the bone. Postman, Freshworks, Druva, Whatfix, Icertis, Hasura, BrowserStack, Chargebee — places where the product manager sat inside engineering, owned the architecture trade-offs, and still had to carry the business case. Not PMs who wrote tickets and groomed backlogs. PMs who decided what got built, why, and what it was worth.

• Platform companies with serious solution-engineering cultures. Confluent, MongoDB, HashiCorp, Databricks, Snowflake, Nutanix, Elastic, Dynatrace — their solution architects and field engineers who walked into an enterprise, designed the deployment, and made the platform solve a real problem. People who spoke to engineering and the business in the same breath and lost neither.

• Telco / OSS-BSS, where every deployment is a co-build. Subex, Amdocs, TEOCO, Netcracker, Mavenir, Rakuten Symphony, Whalecloud, Sterlite — people who took a product and turned it into an operator-specific solution, inside that C-suite and that NOC. Given what ByteLens does, this is a head start, not a nice-to-have.

• Deep-tech and AI-native firms shaping solutions on top of models. Sarvam AI, Krutrim, Fractal, Mad Street Den, Observe.ai, Uniphore — people who took raw capability and engineered it into something an enterprise would actually run, govern, and rely on.

The pattern matters more than the badge: a builder who learned to think like a businessperson, or a businessperson who never lost the ability to build. Both are rare. Both are exactly what this role needs.

WHERE SHOULD WE NOT GO?

The traditional services Practice Head — the one whose "practice" is a headcount pool and a utilization target, who runs delivery on accounts someone else won, with a methodology someone else wrote. TCS, Infosys, Wipro, LTIMindtree, Accenture practice leadership where the job is staffing, not solving. Equally, skip the pure product manager who has never sat with a customer's architecture, and the pure solution architect who goes quiet the moment you ask about margin or roadmap. One-dimensional doesn't survive here. We are not hiring a specialist to manage other specialists. We are hiring the person who can hold the whole thing.

WHAT KIND OF PERSON?

Lives at the whiteboard and the boardroom. Can argue an engineer out of over-building and a CFO into a business case in the same afternoon. Restless about how things get solved — sees a product not as a finished thing but as raw material for the solution a customer actually needs. Believes the wall between "product company" and "services company" is coming down, and wants to be the one standing in the gap, building what replaces both.

Must-have skills

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning, Technical Architect

Good-to-have skills

Engineering Head