Founders Office Associate

Heads Up For Tails; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Heads Up For Tails in Gurugram, India invites a Founder's Office Associate to work with the leadership on high-value, cross-functional initiatives. The role is designed for someone early in their career who seeks responsibility, exposure, and the chance to shape important business problems using data and structured thinking.

You will collaborate with product, technology, and operations teams, define owners and timelines, and drive initiatives through to completion while balancing strategic

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and logical thinking.
• Comfort with data, spreadsheets and dashboards.
• High ownership and accountability.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Good prioritisation and judgement.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Ability to influence and coordinate stakeholders without authority.
• Ambition to learn through real business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own important cross-functional initiatives from problem identification to execution and closure.
• Define owners, timelines and outcomes.
• Ensure initiatives move forward without constant follow-ups.
• Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Break ambiguous problems into structured questions and workstreams.
• Develop hypotheses and identify decisions.
• Use data to identify patterns and diagnose problems.
• Translate analysis into actionable recommendations for leadership.
• Coordinate stakeholders across product, technology, operations and business.
• Drive progress even without direct authority.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data analysis

Ownership

Independent work

Prioritisation

Communication

Stakeholder management

Job description

About The Role

The Founder's Office Associate will work closely with the leadership team on high-value, cross-functional business initiatives. The role is designed for someone early in their career who is looking to take on significant responsibility and exposure. The person will work on ambiguous business problems, use data and structured thinking to find solutions, align different stakeholders, and drive initiatives through to completion.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership & Execution
• Own important cross-functional initiatives from problem identification to execution and closure.
• Define clear owners, timelines and outcomes.
• Ensure initiatives move forward without constant follow-ups.
• Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Problem Solving
• Break ambiguous business problems into structured questions and workstreams.
• Develop hypotheses and identify the right decisions to be made.
• Anticipate risks, dependencies and potential roadblocks.
• Data & Analysis
• Use data to identify patterns and diagnose business problems.
• Build analyses, business cases, trackers and decision-making documents.
• Translate analysis into actionable recommendations for leadership.
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Work with teams across product, technology, operations and business.
• Coordinate stakeholders and help unblock initiatives.
• Drive progress even when you don't have direct authority over the teams involved.

Qualifications / What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate should have:

• Strong analytical and logical thinking.
• Good understanding of data and comfort working with spreadsheets, dashboards and structured analysis.
• High ownership and accountability.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Good prioritisation and judgement.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Ability to influence and coordinate stakeholders without relying on authority.
• High ambition and a desire to learn through real business outcomes.

This Role Is Best Suited For Someone Who

• Enjoys solving complex and ambiguous problems.
• Is proactive and naturally thinks about "What needs to happen next?"
• Doesn't wait for detailed instructions before taking action.
• Is comfortable working in a fast-moving environment.
• Takes responsibility for solving problems rather than just identifying them.

Skills: data,leadership,ownership