Founder’s Office Executive – Strategy & Special Projects

Akrisso; Gurgaon; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Akrisso Innovations Private Limited in Gurgaon invites applications for a Founder’s Office Executive – Strategy & Special Projects. This is a hands-on role bridging research, strategy, and execution, not a typical EA position.

You will move between topics, learn quickly, and produce clear recommendations, while coordinating across teams and tracking priorities from discussion to execution. We value independent thinking, curiosity, strong writing, and the ability to ask the right questions even

Qualifications

• Research, critical thinking, and business reasoning required.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Structured problem-solving with basic numerical analysis.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new topics.
• Independent thinking with strong professional judgement.

Responsibilities

• Research industries, companies, markets and emerging opportunities.
• Break down unfamiliar or ambiguous business problems.
• Analyze information and identify what actually matters.
• Turn research into clear recommendations and decision notes.
• Support strategic and cross-functional initiatives.
• Track important priorities from discussion to execution.
• Prepare presentations, briefs and business documents.
• Evaluate opportunities with commercial and logical thinking.
• Coordinate across teams where execution requires it.
• Challenge assumptions when evidence suggests a better direction.
• Take ownership of important work that does not fit neatly inside one department.

Skills

Research industries

Break down problems

Analyze information

Recommendations notes

Strategic initiatives

Track priorities

Presentations & briefs

Evaluate opportunities

Cross-functional coordination

Challenge assumptions

Ownership of work

Job description

For people who are difficult to put in one box.

Position: Founder’s Office Executive – Strategy & Special Projects
Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Experience: Exceptional Freshers / Early-Career Professionals
Employment Type: Full-Time | Onsite

About The Company

Akrisso Innovations Private Limited is an AI technology company built around a simple belief: AI is only as powerful as the human mind directing it. We look for people who know their craft deeply, think logically, question the obvious and use AI as a tool to extend their ability, not replace it. If you rely on AI to think, create or code for you, Akrisso may not be the right place. We are looking for people with the judgement, curiosity and skill to shape AI, control it and use it to create work that would not be possible otherwise.

About This Role

This is not an Executive Assistant role.

It is for someone who can move between research, strategy, business reasoning, problem solving and execution without losing depth.

You may encounter a subject you know nothing about in the morning and be expected to understand it well enough to form a useful point of view by the end of the day.

That does not mean producing a quick summary.

It means knowing what to question, what to ignore, what matters, what is missing and what should happen next.

We are looking for someone who is naturally curious, logically strong and uncomfortable with shallow answers.

The problems may change.

The standard of thinking should not.

Responsibilities:

What You’ll Do

• Research industries, companies, markets and emerging opportunities.
• Break down unfamiliar or ambiguous business problems.
• Analyse information and identify what actually matters.
• Turn research into clear recommendations and decision notes.
• Support strategic and cross-functional initiatives.
• Track important priorities from discussion to execution.
• Prepare presentations, briefs and business documents.
• Evaluate opportunities with commercial and logical thinking.
• Coordinate across teams where execution requires it.
• Challenge assumptions when evidence suggests a better direction.
• Take ownership of important work that does not fit neatly inside one department.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Research industries, companies, markets and emerging opportunities.
• Break down unfamiliar or ambiguous business problems.
• Analyse information and identify what actually matters.
• Turn research into clear recommendations and decision notes.
• Support strategic and cross-functional initiatives.
• Track important priorities from discussion to execution.
• Prepare presentations, briefs and business documents.
• Evaluate opportunities with commercial and logical thinking.
• Coordinate across teams where execution requires it.
• Challenge assumptions when evidence suggests a better direction.
• Take ownership of important work that does not fit neatly inside one department.

Your Craft

You should be strong at:

• Research
• Critical thinking
• Business reasoning
• Writing
• Communication
• Structured problem-solving
• Basic numerical analysis
• Prioritisation
• Execution
• Professional judgement

You do not need to know every subject before you begin.

You do need to know how to learn one properly.

What We Notice

We notice people who:

• Ask questions other people do not think to ask.
• Can read ten sources and quickly identify which two deserve attention.
• Naturally separate facts, assumptions and opinions.
• Can explain a complicated idea simply without making it simplistic.
• Go deeper when something does not make sense.
• Have strong opinions but are willing to change them when evidence changes.
• Can connect ideas across business, technology, psychology, culture or other fields.
• Notice opportunities, contradictions and weak logic.
• Are equally comfortable thinking and doing.
• Have taught themselves things simply because they became curious.
• Do not need a title or department to take ownership of a problem.

What We Mean by Independent Thinking

We are not looking for someone who agrees with the founders.

We are looking for someone who can think.

If you believe an idea is weak, you should be able to say why.

If you believe there is a better approach, you should be able to build the argument.

And if the evidence proves you wrong, you should be comfortable changing your position.

That combination matters here:

independence without ego.

AI & Your Craft

AI can summarise 50 pages.

It cannot tell you which three sentences matter most.

AI can produce a strategy.

It cannot decide whether the assumptions behind it are sensible.

AI can create a polished presentation.

It cannot replace judgement.

We expect you to use AI extensively to research faster, compare more information and remove repetitive work.

But the final thinking must still be yours.

If AI disappeared tomorrow, you should still be able to:

read, analyse, question, write, reason and decide.

You Might Fit Unusually Well If

• You frequently fall into research rabbit holes.
• You enjoy subjects outside your formal education.
• You can become useful in an unfamiliar topic very quickly.
• You are usually the person people ask to “figure this out.”
• You are more interested in understanding why something works than memorising what happened.
• You enjoy problems without obvious answers.
• You notice inconsistencies other people ignore.
• Routine work bores you faster than difficult work.
• You can move from a messy question to a clear course of action.

You Might Not Enjoy This Role If

• You need predictable tasks every day.
• You prefer instructions to ambiguity.
• You rely on summaries instead of reading source material.
• You enjoy presenting information more than thinking about it.
• You are uncomfortable disagreeing respectfully.
• You avoid numbers or analytical work.
• You use AI to produce conclusions you have not personally examined.
• You expect someone else to define every next step.

One More Thing

A prestigious degree will not rescue weak thinking here.

Neither will an impressive designation.

If you are early in your career but unusually curious, analytically strong and capable of learning faster than the people around you, we would rather meet you than someone with five years of experience and five years of repeated thinking.

Provide expert guidance on developing an AI strategy

Full time

For people who are difficult to put in one box.

If the model gives you an answer, your next question should be: why?

We need developers who can code before AI enters the room.