Founder's Office - Operations

Annapoorna; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Annapoorna in Gurugram, India is seeking a founder execution partner to turn ideas into plans and operationalize them on the ground. You will manage pilot kitchen launches, vendor coordination, sourcing, and hiring support, building repeatable systems as you go.

You will own dashboards, SOPs, and weekly reviews to measure performance, and you will push back when needed to keep projects on track. This role requires high ownership and fast decision making.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of work experience in startups or fast-paced environments.
• Strong academic record from a top engineering or business school (MBA) or equivalent.
• Clear, crisp writing and speaking.
• Based in Gurugram or ready to relocate; role is on-site.

Responsibilities

• Turn founder discussions into clear plans with owners and dates and follow through.
• Run the day-to-day kitchen launch: vendors, sourcing, hiring support.
• Build SOPs, dashboards and weekly reviews to track pilot metrics.
• Handle on-ground problems and make decisions with incomplete information.
• Take projects off founders' plates to allow focus on strategy and fundraising.

Skills

Hungry

Smart

Ownership

Quick thinking

Education

MBA or equivalent

Engineering background

Tools

Excel

Job description

An urban Indian eats about 90 meals a month. About 80 of them are everyday meals: dal, sabzi, and roti. Food delivery apps serve almost none of these. Most homes still depend on a part-time cook who has about an hour per home, so food gets cooked whenever she has a slot and is eaten cold or reheated.

We make three promises to the people who eat with us:

• Food made fresh and served hot, the way your mother would serve it at home.


• A kitchen you can trust as much as your own.


• The nutrition you need, from your daily meals. Every plate includes calories and macros.

We deliver this through Live Kitchens. Each one is 3,000 to 4,000 sq ft and serves the homes and offices within about 2 km, so food reaches people hot within 10 minutes. Our own software, the Kitchen OS, runs the kitchen: what to cook, how much, and when.

We are well capitalized to build this - we have raised $3.7 million in our angel+seed round from top VCs and founders in India, including founders of Blinkit, Cred, Tata 1mg, Chaayos, TBO.com, CoinSwitch, PocketFM, the ex-CTO of Zomato and Blinkit, and more.

THE ROLE

You'll work directly with the founders as their execution partner: you'll turn ideas into plans, plans into work on the ground, and messy problems into systems that run without you. This is a 0→1 role. If you need structure handed to you, this isn't for you. If you enjoy building structure while running, this could be the most important role of your career so far.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

• Founder's execution arm: Turn founder discussions into clear plans with owners and dates, and follow through until they're done.


• Pilot operations: Run the day-to-day work of the kitchen launch: vendors, daily sourcing, ingredient testing, hiring support and partners.


• Systems and numbers: Build the SOPs, dashboards and weekly reviews that show how the pilot is doing: repeat customers, waste, cost per meal and rush-hour performance.


• On-ground problem solving: Handle what breaks: a vendor who doesn't deliver, a cook who doesn't show up, a dish that runs out at 8 pm. Make decisions with incomplete information.


• Founder leverage: Take whole projects off the founders' plate so they can focus on strategy, hiring, and fundraising. Push back when you disagree.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Must-haves

• Hungry: You want a hard, high-stakes role and you'll put in the hours to win. During launch that can mean a 6 am start in the kitchen, and you'll want to be there.


• Smart: You think in numbers and structure. You can work out whether ₹20 a ladle covers our costs, or why dinner waste jumped on Tuesday.


• High ownership: Nobody will hand you a task list. You find what's broken, fix it and own the result, good or bad.


• Quick on your feet: Two cooks don't turn up at 11 am, and lunch starts at 12:30. You stay calm, decide fast, and sort it out.

Also

• 1–3 years of work experience. Startup experience is a strong plus.


• A strong academic record from a top engineering or business school (MBA), or similar.


• Clear, crisp writing and speaking.


• Based in Gurugram or ready to move. This role is on-site.

PAY AND EQUITY

We pay competitive salaries along with meaningful equity, so everyone who helps build Annapoorna shares in what it becomes. You grow with the company, and your stake grows with your impact. This role is for someone who values ownership over comfort and wants to grow into a long-term operating leader as the company scales.

OUR BELIEFS

• Nourishment is the point; taste is how it wins. We engineer wellbeing people crave, every single day.


• Great craft should multiply. We encode expertise into systems, so our best day in the kitchen becomes every customer’s every day.


• Consistency is a joy, not a chore. The 10,000th meal should taste like the first.


• Every role is a mandate. You own outcomes, co-create the how, and shape important decisions from week one.


• Low ego, high conviction. We argue hard, decide boldly, and put the mission above ourselves.


• The first people here shape the culture. We are deliberately building a company with a soul, and you’ll be part of how it’s formed.