Founders Office / Chief of Staff (0 -> 1 Operator)

Adopt AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech firm in Bengaluru seeks a Chief of Staff to work closely with the CEO and drive significant initiatives. This role involves building new operational functions, establishing outbound growth strategies, and ensuring high-impact projects are executed effectively. Ideal candidates have experience in top-tier consulting or investing and possess strong execution and problem-solving skills. With opportunities to shape the company’s direction, this position offers a unique path to senior operational roles.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build functional strategies and systems from scratch.
• Experience managing high-leverage, ambiguous projects with measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build critical growth engines and drive outbound go-to-market strategies.
• Establish new company functions and ensure they are operational.
• Serve as the CEO's execution arm to ensure high-priority initiatives are delivered.

Skills

Structured problem solving

Execution

Ownership and accountability

Communication

Education

3+ years in top-tier consulting, PE, investing or strategy roles

Experience in early-stage startups

Job description

Founder's Office / Chief of Staff (0→1 Operator)

Reporting to: Deepak Anchala, Founder & CEO

Company: Adopt AI

About Adopt

Adopt is building the agentic execution layer for enterprise software — turning any application (including legacy and non-API systems) into reliable, executable actions that AI agents can use to automate real business workflows end-to-end. We work with large enterprises to modernize operations without rewriting their systems.

We’re at an inflection point and are looking for a Founder’s Office / 0→1 Operator to help us build critical company functions from scratch and scale them.

The Role

This is a high-ownership, high-impact execution role working directly with the CEO on the most important priorities across go-to-market, operations, and company building.

You will take ambiguous, high-leverage problems from 0 → 1, build the first working version, systematize it, and then help transition it to a scaled team.

This is not a strategy or program management role. This is a builder-operator role.

What You’ll Do

You will operate as a 0→1 builder inside the Founder’s Office, working directly with the CEO on the company’s highest-impact priorities. Your job is to take ambiguous, high-stakes problems, turn them into execution plans, and personally drive them to measurable outcomes.

1. Build Critical Growth Engines from Scratch

Your first mission will be to stand up and crack outbound GTM:

Design, run, and iterate on outbound experiments across:

• ICPs, buyer personas, and verticals
• Messaging, positioning, and value propositions
• Email, LinkedIn, and multi-touch sequences

Work hands-on with sales and product:

• Sit in calls
• Refine the pitch
• Sharpen the narrative based on real-world feedback
• Identify what works, double down on it, and:
• Turn it into repeatable playbooks

Build templates, processes, and systems

Make outbound a predictable, scalable channel

2. Spin Up New 0→1 Company Functions

As company priorities evolve, you will repeatedly:

Take ownership of the next most important unsolved problem, such as:

• Customer success motion
• RevOps / GTM ops
• Partnerships
• New growth channels

Go from:

• Build the function, prove it works, and hand it off to a permanent owner

3. Be the CEO’s Execution Arm

Work as an extension of the CEO:

• Drive high-priority, cross-functional initiatives
• Unblock stuck projects
• Push decisions to closure
• Create structure where none exists:
• Break work into milestones
• Track progress relentlessly

Ensure the most important things actually get done, not just discussed

4. Build the Company’s Operating Muscle

Set up:

• Weekly/monthly operating cadence
• Execution rituals

Drive:

• Follow-ups
• Accountability
• Delivery discipline

Raise the bar on speed, ownership, and quality of execution across the company

What This Role Is Not

• Not a PMO role
• Not a consulting or “advisory” role
• Not a slide-making role

This is a doer’s role.

What Success Looks Like

• Outbound becomes a predictable, scalable channel
• New functions are stood up faster and cleaner
• The company’s execution velocity materially increases
• The CEO gets significant leverage across critical initiatives

Ideal Profile

• 3+ years experience
• Background from:
• Top-tier consulting / PE / investing / strategy roles and
• Hands-on experience in early-stage startups
• Has built things, not just planned them
• Extremely strong in:
• Structured problem solving
• Execution
• Ownership and accountability
• Communication

Personality & Culture Fit

• High ownership, low ego
• Thrives in ambiguity
• Biased toward action
• Thinks in systems, executes in details
• “Give me a hard problem and get out of my way.”

Why This Role Is Special

• You’ll operate at the nerve center of the company
• You’ll work directly with a repeat founder
• You’ll help shape how the company is built
• This is a career-accelerator role into senior operating or GM paths