Founder's Office

Weekday (YC W21); Bengaluru; Remote; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Weekday is an AI-native recruiting platform backed by Y Combinator and venture investors. This internal role offers close collaboration with the CEO and Cofounders on some of the most important problems at the company, spanning product, growth, operations and strategy.

There isn’t a fixed lane for this role; you will work hands-on to move ideas from rough hypothesis to tested actions, fix underperforming areas, and drive growth.

Qualifications

• You’re good at figuring things out with vague problems.
• You’ll do the work yourself including talking to customers or building scripts.
• You have good business judgement about what matters.
• You’re comfortable with data and technology.
• You communicate clearly and own your tasks.
• You take ownership and follow through.
• You care about details and notice things others miss.
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Take ideas from hypothesis to testable actions.
• Investigate underperforming parts of the business and fix root causes.
• Drive growth for existing products through customer talks and experiments.
• Research new markets, products, partnerships, or opportunities.
• Build processes or internal tools where none exist.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to turn problems into changes.
• Own projects that cross teams and avoid falling between cracks.
• Help founders make decisions by rapid fact gathering.

Skills

Problem solving

Hands-on work

Business judgement

Data fluency

Clear communication

Ownership

Attention to detail

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

This is an internal role at Weekday. Not a role by a client.

• Role type: Full time
• Location: Remote
• Working with: CEO and Cofounder

Weekday is an AI-native recruiting platform. We are backed by Y Combinator and Venture Highway (now General Catalyst). We have built the largest white collar talent database in India and have built tools to run outbound recruiting campaigns to them.

About The Role

You’ll work closely with the founders on some of the most important problems at the company.

There isn’t a fixed lane for this role. What you work on will depend on what the company needs at the time. That could mean figuring out why a product isn’t growing, launching a new product or market, improving an internal process, working with customers, researching a new opportunity, or taking on a project that simply doesn’t have an obvious owner yet.

This is a hands‑on role. We’re not looking for someone whose job ends at analysing a problem and making a recommendation. You should be comfortable getting into the details and doing the work yourself.

As the company grows, the problems you work on will change. We expect the role to change with them.

What you’ll work on

Depending on the week, you might:

• Take a new idea from a rough hypothesis to something we can actually test
• Dig into a part of the business that isn’t working well, understand why, and fix it
• Work on growth for an existing product, including talking to customers, improving positioning, running experiments, or helping close important deals
• Research a new market, product, partnership, or business opportunity and decide whether it is worth pursuing
• Build a process or internal tool where none exists today
• Work with product and engineering to turn customer or business problems into product changes
• Take ownership of projects that cut across teams and would otherwise fall between the cracks
• Help the founders make decisions by getting to the underlying facts quickly

Some projects will last a few days. Others may become something you own for months.

What we’re looking for

• You’re good at figuring things out. You can take a vaguely defined problem, ask the right questions, and get to a useful answer without needing a detailed brief
• You’re comfortable doing the work yourself. If something requires talking to customers, going through data, writing copy, building a spreadsheet, or putting together a quick script, you’ll do it
• You have good business judgement. You can distinguish between something that is interesting and something that actually matters
• You’re comfortable with numbers and technology. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you should be able to work with data and use technology to make yourself more effective
• You communicate clearly. You can write well, explain what you’ve learned, and say when something isn’t working
• You take ownership. Once you take something on, the founders shouldn’t have to keep checking whether it is moving
• You care about details. A lot of this job involves noticing things other people miss and following through on them
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity. Priorities will change and you won’t always have a playbook to follow

We care less about whether you’ve had a “Founder’s Office” title before. You could come from startups, consulting, product, growth, operations, investing, or something else entirely. What matters is whether you can learn quickly and get useful things done.

What you get

You’ll work directly with the founders and get exposure to most parts of the company.

You’ll see how decisions get made, work on problems before they have dedicated teams around them, and have a lot of room to take ownership. If something you start becomes important enough, there’s a good chance you’ll continue to own it.

This role is a good fit for someone who eventually wants to build a company, run a business or product line, or become a generalist operator at an early-stage company.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.