Associate, Founder's Office (Business Development and Operations)

Labellerr AI; Mohali; On-site; INR 450,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Labellerr AI is seeking an Associate for the Founder's Office in Mohali to manage the founder's inbox, calendar and meeting follow-ups. You will accompany the founder to customer meetings, partner visits and events, handling travel bookings and logistics.

This role is non-technical, requiring proactive communication, discreet handling of confidential information, and the ability to coordinate across time zones while supporting basic HR and administrative tasks.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years in sales, business development, events, startup operations or a founder's office
• Actionable thinker who decides next steps and moves work forward
• Outgoing and comfortable writing to and calling strangers
• Fast and proactive communicator who closes the loop on threads
• Willing to travel about 3–5 days a month, mostly in India, with costs covered
• Discreet with confidential information

Responsibilities

• Triage the founder's inbox and prioritise emails from partners, customers, hiring and events
• Prepare for and join meetings with customers and partners with briefs, notes and next steps
• Schedule and confirm calls across time zones and protect the founder's calendar
• Travel with the founder to meetings and events and handle bookings and logistics
• Track promises made in meetings and follow up until resolution
• Share approved documents and data with named customers under NDA and log shares
• Procure company needs within a defined budget (gifts, devices, supplies)
• Coordinate with accounts on invoices and payments for quick approvals
• Assist with basic HR tasks: acknowledge applicants, schedule interviews and maintain a tracker
• Manage event, award and programme applications and deadlines
• Keep company records and compliance deadlines with legal/finance teams
• Identify repetitive manual work for automation (no coding required)

Skills

Sales experience

Executive support

Communication

Travel readiness

Job description

Labellerr AI is hiring an Associate for the Founder's Office.

IMPORTANT: Applying on LinkedIn alone does not complete your application. After you apply, email [e-mail] with your CV and the details listed under "How to apply" below, within 48 hours. Applications without this email will not be reviewed.

You will work side by side with the founder: running the inbox, calendar and follow-up, and going with him to customer meetings, partner visits and events. This is not a desk-only role. It is not a technical role. If you are an engineer or ML candidate and still want to do the Founder's Office role, we welcome your application, case by case.

What you will do

• Triage the founder's inbox: sort partner, customer, hiring and event emails, answer what you can from standard replies, and bring him the few that need him
• Prepare for and join meetings with customers and partners: a brief before, notes and next steps within hours after
• Schedule and confirm calls, including across time zones, and protect the founder's calendar
• Travel with the founder to meetings, partner visits and events, and handle bookings and logistics
• Track every promise made in a meeting until it is a yes, a no or a clear next step
• Share approved documents, samples and data with named customers and partners when the founder asks, under an NDA and with each share logged
• Buy what the company needs, such as gifts, devices and supplies, within a defined budget
• Coordinate with the accounts team on invoices, payment status and records, so the founder can approve payments quickly
• Help with basic HR work: acknowledge applicants, schedule interviews, keep one tracker, and push hiring forward
• Handle event, award and programme applications and their deadlines
• Keep company records and compliance deadlines on track with our legal and finance teams
• Spot repetitive manual work and flag it for automation (you do not need to build it)

Who this is for

• 1 to 3 years in sales, business development, events, startup operations or a founder's office. Strong candidates from other backgrounds are welcome
• An actionable thinker: you see what needs doing, decide the next step and move it forward
• Outgoing, and comfortable writing to and calling strangers
• Fast: you act first and report back briefly
• You close the loop on every thread
• Excited to travel about [3 to 5] days a month, mostly in India, with costs paid
• Discreet with confidential information

How we work

• Urgent items: reply in 30 minutes and finish the same day, even if it runs past office hours. This is not routine, and extra hours or weekend travel are balanced with time off
• In-office in Mohali, at Innovation Mission Punjab

What this role is not

• Not a personal assistant: no personal errands or personal purchases
• Not a sales-quota role: you prepare, follow up and warm up leads, and the founder closes
• Signing, payments, the payment cycle, pricing and exclusivity deals always stay with the founder
• Not a full HR function: you help with basic HR until we hire HR

Pay and growth

• Fixed ₹[4.5 to 6] LPA, plus outcome-linked pay of up to ₹[1 to 2] LPA, paid quarterly on outcomes agreed up front, plus ESOP. Examples of outcomes: qualified meetings booked, event leads turned into conversations, hires closed on time, applications submitted. You are welcome to propose outcomes you want to be paid more for. There is a track toward Chief of Staff.

How we hire

• We share a document guide with you for next steps and once you provide some min required information over the email, then whatsapp by founder for a then a 25-minute telephonic or google meet call, a short test of about three hours, an in-person round of 75 to 90 minutes in Mohali, then references and a decision. Please state your expected pay in your first reply.

About Labellerr AI

• Labellerr AI is a training-data platform for AI teams, with automated annotation, quality checks and data pipelines for images and video. Customers include [Stanford University, Coupang, Volvo]. We are listed on Siemens' Xcelerator Marketplace and have been featured by CNN, The Guardian, DW News and The Indian Express.
• www.labellerr.com
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