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Founder’s Associate

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Noida, Sector-3 (Work from Office)
1-2 Years experience
Full-Time · Permanent
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Founder’s Associate — Office of the Founder, Signisys

Help the founder of Signisys run the company. You’ll work on whatever matters most that week — closing a deal, prepping the board, hiring a senior leader, or untangling a problem nobody else has time to look at. If you want a fast, messy, unreasonably good education in how a company actually gets built, this is the seat for it.

About the Role

  • You’re the person the founder leans on when something important needs to move and there isn’t an obvious owner yet.
  • Your week sits somewhere between strategy, operations, and execution — usually all three before lunch.
  • No two weeks look the same. One week it’s a competitive teardown before a pitch; the next, an interview loop, an investor update, or a customer escalation.
  • You’ll be in most of the important rooms, and after a while you’ll be expected to lead a few of them.
  • This is a launchpad role, not a permanent one. Most people in this seat move into functional leadership within two years, or leave with our support to start something of their own.

What You’ll Do

  • Work as the founder’s right hand on whatever needs the most attention that week — research, deal work, a tricky email thread, a fire that needs putting out.
  • Own special projects end-to-end. Take a vague prompt like “should we look at the SMB segment?” and come back in two to six weeks with a plan, a pilot, or a recommendation worth acting on.
  • Run the operating cadence — weekly leadership reviews, monthly all-hands, quarterly OKR planning. You own the agendas, the pre-reads, and the follow-through.
  • Build the board and investor materials — board decks, investor updates, the data room, diligence requests. Sit in on calls and own the follow-ups.
  • Help close senior hires. Source leadership candidates, run scheduling for the important loops, draft offers, and project-manage onboarding for new leaders.
  • Protect the founder’s attention. Triage the inbox, hold the calendar, decide what the founder needs to see today and what can wait. It’s judgement work, not admin.
  • Jump into customer and partner work. Join key sales calls, draft proposals, follow up on the accounts the founder is personally driving.
  • Stand up new functions. If we don’t have a competitive intel motion, a partnerships pipeline, or a BizOps practice yet, prototype it, run it for a quarter, and then either keep it or hire the person who should.

What You Bring

Must-Haves

  • 2–5 years somewhere demanding — strategy consulting, investment banking, VC or PE, an early-stage startup, or a company you started yourself.
  • Structured thinking when the problem is fuzzy. A one-line prompt becomes a clear plan, a real recommendation, and the numbers to defend it.
  • Writing you’d put your name on — a board memo, an investor update, a customer email, a Slack message, each in the right register.
  • Bias to action. You’d rather ship a rough v1 today than a perfect one in two weeks.
  • Discretion. You’ll be close to compensation conversations, fundraising, and personnel issues, and you handle them the way the founder would.
  • Comfort with a spreadsheet and a slide deck in the same day. Model a unit-economics scenario in the morning, walk the founder through it in the afternoon.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Time at a seed-to-Series-B startup.
  • Familiarity with Signisys’s space — helpful, not required.
  • Light technical chops — SQL, basic data work, or no-code tools like Zapier, Airtable, or Retool.
  • An MBA, CA, or equivalent — nice, but not required.

Why Join Us

What you’ll get

  • Direct access to the founder, with weekly 1:1s and the context behind every major decision.
  • A real path into a leadership role at Signisys, or with our backing, into something you start yourself.
  • Cash, meaningful equity, and a learning budget you’ll actually spend.
  • Small team. Low politics. Your work is visible from week one.

What to expect

  • Long weeks around fundraises, board meetings, and big launches. That’s the job, not a phase.
  • Constant context-switching. Some days you’ll touch eight different things.
  • Glamorous work and unglamorous work, often in the same hour. Both matter.
  • Travel when needed — offsites, investor meetings, important customers.

Growth & Career Path

  • Months 0–3: Ramp and earn trust. Shadow the founder, take over the operating cadence, ship a few small wins.
  • Months 4–12: Own real surface area. Lead one or two strategic projects a quarter, and own at least one company-wide motion — OKRs, board ops, or fundraising support.
  • Months 12–24: Decide what’s next, together with the founder — a functional leadership role at Signisys, a Chief of Staff seat as we scale, or our backing to go start your own thing.

Location & Working Style

Based out of Signisys’s primary office, in person by default with room for focused work-from-home days. You’ll be in the room with the founder — that proximity is part of the point of the role.

How to Apply

Send us a one-page note and your CV. The note matters more than the CV — tell us about a hard problem you actually owned: what you did, what worked, what you’d do differently. We reply within a week.