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Foresight & Strategy CouncilorOla Electric • chennai, tamil nadu, in
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Foresight & Strategy Councilor

Foresight & Strategy Councilor

Ola Electric • chennai, tamil nadu, in
4 days ago
Job description

About the job

We are looking for a ‘Foresight Councilor’; she / he will be both a ‘connector’ and a member of the ‘orchestration’ group for our Foresight Council. The role will be part of our Product Team.

Role Profile : Foresight Councilor

Purpose of the Role

  • Ensure the Foresight Council’s work is continuously fed with fresh signals, translated into actionable insights, and well-integrated into the company’s planning cycles.
  • Serve as the ‘bridge’ between internal teams and an esteemed, cross-disciplinary council.

Core Responsibilities :

1.‘Orchestrate’ the Council

  • Manage meeting cadences (bi-weekly huddles, deep dives, workshops, retreats).
  • Prepare agendas, pre-reads, and signal briefs; follow up on action items.
  • Maintain the foresight knowledge hub (signals library, foresight map updates).
  • 2.Gather Signals; Sense Insights

  • Continuously scan for signals across tech, policy, culture, and markets.
  • Tap external feeds and internal expertise (across departments) for contributions.
  • Curate and synthesize into digestible briefs for council discussions.
  • 3.Integrate & Translate

  • Liaise within Product pods, R&D, Design, Marketing to capture customer needs.
  • Translate foresight council outputs into relevant takeaways for internal teams.
  • Ensure council insights inform stage-gates, strategy reviews, and roadmaps.
  • 4.Facilitate & Steward

  • Support workshops and scenario sessions; encourage open, respectful dialogue.
  • Ensure all voices are heard, capture insights faithfully, and distill them into council outputs.
  • Uphold a culture of foresight-as-learning (sharing lessons, documenting debriefs).
  • Desired Profile :

  • First Principles Thinker – naturally questions assumptions, reasons from fundamentals.
  • Quick to Action – bias for momentum; comfortable experimenting and iterating.
  • Collaborative & Respectful – excellent listener, values diverse perspectives, builds trust with senior / external council members.
  • Smart Synthesizer – able to distill complexity into clear, actionable insights.
  • Organized Operator – strong at logistics, follow-through, and keeping cadence.
  • Storyteller – comfortable shaping narratives (signals >
  • implications >

    prompts).

  • T-Shaped – depth in one domain (e.g. strategy, research, tech, design) but broad curiosity
  • across many.

    Background & Experience :

  • Exposure to emerging technologies, trend analysis, futures thinking.
  • Comfortable in super-dynamic, high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments.
  • Everything else is up to how you impress us with your capabilities and potential.
  • Success Measures :

  • Council meetings run smoothly and are consistently productive.
  • Insights Reports and Foresight Maps delivered on time and valued by leadership.
  • Evidence of council insights shaping product / portfolio decisions.
  • Strong, trusting relationships built with council members (internal & external).
  • Planning org perceives the council as relevant, responsive, and respected.
  • If this sounds interesting to you, pitch for it. Send Waseem a short-format on why you make the best fit. Email id is waseemakram.a1@olaelectric.com.

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