Founder's Office Intern

The Adda Labs; Mumbai; On-site; INR 167,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

TAL is seeking an Intern for the Founder's Office in Mumbai. You will directly support the founders with outreach, research, deck preparation, and coordination, gaining a front-row seat to how a startup is built.

You will own projects end-to-end, from initiation to completion, including market research and client interactions. This role emphasizes reliability and the ability to handle multiple tasks—from discovery calls to live meetings—while contributing to live execution tasks and

Qualifications

• Clear written and verbal communication to represent TAL externally.
• Ability to turn rough briefs into clean, structured presentations.
• Strong research skills to find, synthesize and present findings clearly.
• Comfort switching between strategic thinking and hands-on execution in one day.

Responsibilities

• Lead generation and outreach end-to-end with clear targets and cadences.
• Research markets, competitors, and prospects to provide actionable insights.
• Create decks, dashboards, and meeting notes for founders to walk into rooms with confidence.
• Coordinate cross-team tasks, timelines, and follow-ups to closure.
• Provide on-ground support for client meetings, market visits, and shoots.

Skills

Written communication

Presentation skills

Research ability

Execution discipline

Tools

Google Workspace

ClickUp

Canva

ChatGPT/Claude

Google Sheets

PowerPoint/Slides

Job description

Careers/Founder's Office

Founder's OfficeInternship MumbaiDirect-to-Interview

Founder's Office Intern

The founders' execution partner — outreach, research, decks, and coordination, owned end to end. A front-row seat to how a company gets built.

Who We Are

TAL is a three-founder startup. We're young, we move fast, and we hold ourselves and our team to a high bar. You get real ownership here — not just tasks to check off.

Why This Role Exists

At this stage, founder bandwidth is the single biggest bottleneck to growth. Outreach, research, decks, follow-ups, coordination, client meetings, shoots — all of it competes for the same 24 hours.

This role is a direct extension of the founding team — at the desk and on the ground. You take complete ownership of projects from initiation to completion: research and decks one day, a client meeting or market visit the next. You sit close to decisions. You see how a startup actually operates. In exchange, we need you to be completely reliable.

What bandwidth you free up

• Outreach, research, decks, discovery-call prep, coordination, and on-ground support — you own it end to end, so founders stay focused on what only they can do.

What a good week looks like

• Lead generation activity with clear targets. Trackers and systems current without prompting. Research and decks delivered meeting-ready. Every open thread followed up until it closes.

What You'll Own

• Outreach and lead generation — LinkedIn, cold email, DMs — with clear targets and cadences, managed end to end
• Research the founders can act on — markets, competitors, prospects — synthesized, not just collected
• Decks, dashboards, and meeting notes that founders walk into any room with
• Coordination across teams — tasks, timelines, and follow-ups tracked until they close
• Ground support when the work calls for it — client meetings, market visits, shoots

What You Must Have

Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication — your emails and messages will represent TAL externally
• Ability to build clean, structured, visually coherent presentations from a rough brief
• Research ability — find things, synthesize them, present clearly without being told where to look
• Comfort switching between strategic work and hands-on execution within the same day

Values

• You do what you say you'll do. No follow-up required — it's just how you operate.
• When something breaks, you own it before anyone asks — fix first, explain after
• You see what needs doing and you do it. Initiative isn't something you turn on when prompted.
• You communicate before anyone has to wonder. If you're blocked, stuck, or off-track — you say so.

Tools you should know

Google WorkspaceFlockClickUpCanvaChatGPT / ClaudeGoogle SheetsPowerPoint / Slides

What Ownership Looks Like Here

You're self-directed: when you hit a blocker, you solve it or flag it immediately rather than letting it sit. When something goes wrong, you own it before anyone has to ask. You have a track record of doing things independently, even if that track record is from college projects, freelance work, or something you built on your own.

Nice to Have

Startup, consulting, or founder's office experience — even freelance or at a small scale. You've done real outreach — cold email, LinkedIn prospecting — and you understand what works. You've built something independently that other people actually used.

What will make you stand out

• Startup, consulting, or founder's office experience — even freelance or at a small scale
• Six months to a year in marketing, agency, or business development work — internships and freelance count
• You've done real outreach — cold email, LinkedIn prospecting — and you understand what works
• You've built something independently: a system, a tracker, a workflow, or a project others actually used

An Honest Note on Fit

What we take seriously

• Owning mistakes immediately — no denial, no deflection
• Correcting first, explaining later — the fix comes before the justification
• Due diligence on everything before it leaves your hands
• Immediate communication when something breaks — no disappearing

Worth reflecting on before you apply

• You do your best work with clear task lists and defined hours
• Self-directing when the next step isn't specified doesn't come naturally to you
• Taking ownership when things break isn't your default
• The credential matters more to you than the contribution

If the reflection points above feel familiar, take a moment before applying. We'd rather you self-select than both of us find out the hard way.

90-Day Goals

TAL's first set of clients actively in the pipeline — with your outreach contributing directly. A documented knowledge base of ideas, systems, and research the team actually uses. A lead-generation workflow that runs without daily founder involvement.

Why It's Worth It

You work directly with three founders from day one — mentorship here is the seating arrangement, not a programme. The internship is built to convert: do it well, and you're the obvious first hire as TAL scales. Stipend and structure are discussed openly at the first conversation — no surprises. There are no corporate layers between you and the work that matters.

Quick Facts

DepartmentFounder's Office

TypeInternship

LocationMumbai

PipelineDirect-to-Interview

Hiring Process

1Application

2Founder Interview

3Live Execution Task

The live task will test communication clarity, your ability to build something coherent under time pressure, research speed, and how you handle ambiguity when there is no clear instruction to follow.