Associate, Founder's Office -Strategy & Investor Relations

Makers Hive Innovations; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Makers Hive Innovations, maker of KalArm, seeks a strategic Associate, Founder's Office, to work directly with the CEO through the full fundraising cycle, investor relations, and corporate strategy.

You will manage data rooms, coordinate due diligence, and build the investor narrative while coordinating with finance, legal, and engineering teams. This role offers exposure to senior stakeholders and board interactions.

Qualifications

• Background MBA, Chartered Accountant or equivalent qualification; candidates from consulting, deal advisory, investment banking, VC, or early operating roles are relevant.
• The ability to build a driver-based operating model independently and defend every assumption.

Responsibilities

• Support the CEO through the full fundraising cycle: business plan, financial model and investor collateral; investor targeting and outreach sequencing; meeting prep and follow-up.
• Build, structure and own the data room end to end across corporate, financial, commercial, technical, regulatory and legal workstreams; enforce version control and access management; audit for internal consistency.
• Act as single point of coordination for due diligence: log and route questions, coordinate with finance/legal/engineering/regulatory to prepare responses, maintain the diligence tracker, close items on time.
• Research and build target investor list; qualify funds by thesis, stage, cheque size and portfolio fit; prepare outreach material and map warm introductions.
• Maintain investor CRM and relationship records; issue investor updates monthly; manage communication with investors, board members and advisors; prepare CEO ahead of investor/board interactions.
• Prepare board packs, pre-reads, minutes and resolutions; track actions to closure; maintain commitments record with board and investors.
• Build analysis behind pricing, margin, market-entry and portfolio decisions; prepare option papers for CEO and board; consolidate revenue, pipeline and margin actuals against plan.

Skills

Financial modelling

Investor relations

Writing

Running a process

Senior stakeholders

AI fluency

Strategy & narrative

Education

MBA or CA

Tools

Data room platforms

Job description

Company Description

The Associate, Founder's Office (Strategy & Investor Relations) will work directly with the CEO across the full capital raising cycle, investor relations and board operations, corporate strategy, and the positioning of the company to investors, partners and the wider market. Direct CEO, board and investor exposure; a clear path to a strategy or business-line leadership role. Makers Hive is the company that invented KalArm, India's first fully functional bionic hand, designed and manufactured in India. The company is entering its scale chapter, with a portfolio spanning bionic prosthetics, assistive devices and dexterous robotics across Indian and international markets, and is preparing its Series A capital raise.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Series A

capital raising Support the CEO through the full fundraising cycle: business plan, financial model and investor collateral; investor targeting and outreach sequencing; meeting preparation, notes and follow-up; and the running record of every conversation from first contact through to term sheet and closing.

Data room ownership

Build, structure and own the data room end to end across the corporate, financial, commercial, technical, regulatory and legal workstreams; enforce version control and access management; audit the full set for internal consistency so that no two documents disagree.

Due diligence management

Act as the single point of coordination for the entire diligence process: log and route every question, work with finance, legal, engineering and regulatory to prepare responses, maintain the diligence tracker, and close every item within agreed turnaround times.

Investor outreach and pipeline

Research and build the target investor list; qualify funds by thesis, stage, cheque size and portfolio fit; prepare outreach material and map warm introduction pathways; maintain pipeline discipline so that no conversation goes cold and no follow-up is missed.

Investor relations and stakeholder management

Maintain the investor CRM and relationship record; issue investor updates on a fixed monthly cadence; manage the communication rhythm with existing investors, board members and advisors; prepare the CEO ahead of every investor and board interaction.

Board operations

Prepare board packs, pre-reads, minutes and resolutions; track action items to closure; maintain the record of commitments made to the board and to investors.

Corporate strategy and reporting

uild the analysis behind pricing, margin, market-entry and portfolio decisions; prepare option papers for the CEO and the board; consolidate revenue, pipeline and margin actuals against plan and flag variances with their causes.

Positioning and narrative

Own the consistency of the company narrative across investor, board, clinical and customer material; maintain the proof-point and case-study library; brief and review agency and marketing output against an agreed message framework

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

Build the series

Assemble and audit the complete diligence set across every workstream so that any reasonable investor question can be answered within forty-eight hours, with no inconsistency between documents.

Rebuild the operating model from first principles

Construct the plan from activity drivers rather than from targets, with every assumption documented and defensible under diligence

Build and run the investor pipeline

Establish the target list, the qualification criteria, the outreach sequence and the follow-up discipline that carries conversations from first meeting to term sheet.

Institutionalise investor reporting

Move board and investor communication to a fixed monthly and quarterly cadence with no slippage and no inconsistency between documents

Codify the company narrative

Produce a single message framework governing investor, clinical, partner and customer communication, and hold all outbound material to it

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Background

Background MBA, Chartered Accountant or equivalent qualification; candidates from management consulting, transaction and deal advisory, financial research, investment banking, venture capital, or an early operating role at a funded company are all relevant

Financial modelling

The ability to build a driver-based operating model independently and to defend every assumption within it.

Writing

Exceptionalwritten English. Investor-grade writing is a core requirement of this role and will be assessed.

Running a process

Demonstrated ability to run a process with multiple external parties and internal functions to a deadline, and to close action items without escalation.

Senior stakeholders

Ability to manage senior stakeholders with composure, including investors, board members and external advisors.

Discretion

High discretion and sound judgement. The role has early sight of the company's most sensitive commercial, financial and strategic information.

AI fluency

Comfortable using AI tools for research, analysis and drafting, with the judgement to check their output before it reaches an investor.

Preferred edge

Direct exposure to a fundraise, data room or due diligence process; working knowledge of cap tables, term sheets and corporate structuring; interest in medical devices, assistive technology or deeptech.