Founder's Office Intern - Operations & Execution

WaterScience; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 335,000 - 558,000; Part time

Job summary

WaterScience, a Bengaluru-based brand in shower and tap filters, invites an internship-to-full-time candidate to join Founder's Office. This six-month internship offers exposure to priority projects and a route to a full-time role for strong performers.

You will drive program management across all teams, set milestones, track owners, build trackers and MIS dashboards, analyze data and report weekly progress to the Founder, while visiting factory, warehouses and retail outlets as needed.

Qualifications

• Strong ownership and ability to drive tasks to completion.
• Exposure to project management tools and processes.
• Excellent Excel or Google Sheets skills with clear written communication.
• Comfort coordinating with senior stakeholders and across teams.
• Willingness to visit factory, warehouses and retail outlets.

Responsibilities

• Run program management across all teams: set milestones, track owners, remove blockers and report progress weekly to the Founder.
• Drive cross-functional projects such as factory build, retail rollouts, logistics improvements, customer service operations, and ERP-related initiatives.
• Build trackers, SOPs and MIS dashboards to give leadership a clear status view.
• Analyse operational data and recommend fixes.
• Handle high-priority ad hoc tasks requiring speed and good judgement.

Skills

Project management

Excel / Sheets

Cross-functional collaboration

Written communication

Visit to factory

Tools

ERP systems

Project management tools

Job description

Duration: 6 months, with a path to a full-time role

Stipend: Rs 30,000 to 50,000 per month, depending on role and experience

Reports to: Founder & CEO

Openings: 1

Eligibility: Open to all, except pre-final-year students

About WaterScience:

WaterScience is India's No. 1 brand in shower and tap filters. We are a bootstrapped, profitable Bengaluru company with a 10-year track record and a team of 150+ people. We sell across Amazon, our own website, quick commerce and offline retail, and we are now building water softeners, whole-house systems, a customer app, experience retail outlets and a new factory.

The Founder's Office works directly with the Founder & CEO on the company's highest-priority projects. This is an internship-to-full-time path: strong performers will be offered a full-time role.

About the role:

This is the role that makes everything happen. You are who gets things done. Responsibilities include running program management across all teams, making sure priority projects move on schedule, and giving leadership clear visibility on progress.

What you will do

• Run program management across all teams: set milestones, track owners, remove blockers and report progress to the Founder every week
• Drive cross-functional projects such as the new factory build, retail outlet rollouts, warehouse and logistics improvements, customer service operations, finance operations and Odoo processes, and packaging projects
• Build trackers, SOPs and MIS dashboards that give leadership a clear view of status
• Analyse operational data and recommend fixes
• Handle high-priority ad hoc tasks that need speed and good judgment

Must have:

• Strong ownership and follow-through: you finish what you start
• Exposure to Project Management tools
• Excellent Excel or Google Sheets skills and clear written communication
• Comfort following up with senior people and working across teams
• Willingness to visit the factory, warehouses and retail outlets

Good to have:

• Internship or project experience in operations, consulting or a startup
• Exposure to ERP systems or process mapping

How we will evaluate you:

Expect a case exercise on a real operational problem and a conversation about how you drive work to completion.