Associate Director – Catalogue Automation
Amber · Pune District
- Experience7–14 yrs
- SalaryNot disclosed
- Work modeonsite
- Posted23 Sept 2026
About Amber
Amber is hiring in Pune District in real estate construction. This role looks for around 7+ years of experience.
Skills
- Catalogue operations
- AI/GenAI
- automation
- process redesign
- Inventory quality
- Data validation
- Anomaly detection
- APIs
- Web scraping
- Workflow automation
- Operations transformation
- Stakeholder management
The role
An operations manager at a marketplace company leads catalogue operations, AI/GenAI transformation, and workflow automation across global inventory and content. The role builds scalable systems, governs quality and productivity, and partners with product, engineering, and data teams.
Full job description
Associate Director – Catalogue Operations | AI & Automation
Opportunity to travel to and work with teams across the US, UK & Australia as the function scales.
Build the next generation of Catalogue Operations at Amber
At Amber, we’re transforming how students find and book accommodation. With 4,000+ properties across 10+ countries, catalogue accuracy, pricing, availability and content directly impact customer experience, conversion and revenue.We’re looking for an Associate Director – Catalogue Automation & Operations to build a high-scale, AI-first catalogue operation combining people, process, data and technology.
What You’ll OwnLead a 60+ member global Catalogue Operations team, including ~5 managers.Own catalogue accuracy, content, inventory, pricing and availability across global markets.Transform manual operations through AI, automation and intelligent workflows.Leverage AI/LLMs, APIs, web scraping, data validation, reconciliation, anomaly detection and automated monitoring.Partner with Product, Engineering and Data to take automation initiatives from concept to production.Build an exception-based operating model, enabling automation to handle repetitive work while teams focus on complex cases.Own productivity, SLAs, quality, capacity, cost and operational governance.Build data-driven visibility into accuracy, productivity, automation coverage and manual effort reduction.Drive continuous improvement and build a scalable operating model for Amber’s global growth.
What We’re Looking For7–14 years of experience in Catalogue, Content, Inventory, Marketplace, Data or Operations.Experience managing large, multi-layered teams.Proven track record in operations transformation, automation and process redesign.Strong experience partnering with Product, Engineering and Data teams.Strong understanding of catalogue/inventory quality and operational excellence.Exposure to AI/GenAI, APIs, data ingestion, web scraping or workflow automation is highly preferred.Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.A builder mindset — someone who can turn complex, high-volume operations into scalable, measurable systems.
Ideal BackgroundE-commerce | Marketplaces | D2C | Consumer Tech | Travel Tech | Food Tech | Quick Commerce | OTA
Why This Role?This is an opportunity to build, not just manage:Lead a 60+ member global functionBuild an AI-first Catalogue Operations modelOperate across 10+ countries and 4,000+ propertiesDirectly influence customer experience, conversion and revenueTransform operations through AI and automationWork closely with Product, Engineering and DataTravel and work with global teams across the US, UK & AustraliaBuild systems and processes that scale with Amber’s global growth
If you’ve scaled catalogue or marketplace operations and are excited about using AI and automation to fundamentally rethink how operations work, we’d love to hear from you.