Founders Office Intern

The Social Lions; Mumbai; On-site; INR 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

The Social Lions in Mumbai is seeking a proactive operator to sit in the founders operating rhythm. You will own decisions, ship work, and learn how a business runs from the inside.

Responsibilities include supporting the founders calendar, leading growth outreach, maintaining CRM, and coordinating across client accounts. A high-ownership, fast-paced environment suits applicants who thrive on ambiguity.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently graduated in any stream. Marketing, Commerce or MBA is a plus, not required.
• Strong written communication, clear and non-templated.
• High ownership operator who works from loose briefs and delivers results.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, speed, and shifting priorities.
• Proficient in Google Sheets, Excel, CRMs, and AI tools for research and execution.

Responsibilities

• Support founder's calendar, priorities, scheduling, and follow-ups so nothing slips.
• Attend client, internal, and business meetings; capture decisions and drive actions to closure.
• Own the founders commitment and task tracker; chase, update, and close loops across the team.
• Prepare briefs, background, and clear agendas for meetings with founders.
• Own top of funnel growth: prospect research, lead lists, and first-touch outreach.
• Maintain CRM and pipeline daily; qualify leads and hand off warm prospects.
• Support pitch decks, credentials, and proposals for new business conversations.
• Build trackers, SOPs, and internal systems to scale operations.
• Coordinate delivery timelines across active client accounts; flag risks early.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Written communication

Ambiguity management

Prospecting

Education

Marketing / Commerce / MBA (optional)

Tools

LinkedIn

HubSpot / CRM

Google Sheets

Excel

AI tools

Job description

Job Summary

This is not a support role. It is a seat inside the founders operating rhythm. You sit inside the decisions, own work that ships, and learn how a business is actually run from the inside.

Responsibilities

Founder s Office & Operating Rhythm

• Support the founders calendar, priorities, scheduling, and follow-ups so nothing slips.
• Sit in on client, internal, and business meetings. Capture decisions, convert them to action items, and drive them to closure.
• Own the founders commitment and task tracker. Chase, update, and close loops across the team.
• Help prepare the founders for every meeting with briefs, background, and clear agendas.
• Act as a point of follow-through between the founders and the rest of the team.

Business Development & Growth

• Own the top of the growth funnel: prospect research, targeted lead lists, and first-touch outreach.
• Identify brands actively looking for an agency or signalling marketing pain across LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.
• Run outreach and follow-up on behalf of the founders. Track every conversation. No lead goes cold.
• Maintain the CRM and pipeline daily. Qualify leads and hand off warm prospects with full context.
• Support pitch decks, credentials, and proposals for new business conversations.

Operations, Systems & Accountability

• Help build and maintain the trackers, SOPs, and internal systems the founders need to scale.
• Coordinate delivery timelines across active client accounts and flag risks early.
• Prepare weekly and monthly status reports for client and internal reviews.
• Support the team s accountability to timelines on behalf of the founders.

Strategic Projects & New Initiatives

• Take new initiatives from idea to execution: new service lines, internal builds, experiments, and one-off bets.
• Research markets, competitors, and partnership opportunities, and structure the findings into clear decisions.
• Be the founders execution arm on anything that needs to move fast.

Content & Communication

• Support the founders personal brand and the agency s LinkedIn presence through research, drafting, and posting.
• Draft social posts, captions, and email copy for the agency s own channels.
• Build case study drafts from completed client campaigns.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing or recently graduated, any stream. Marketing, Commerce, or an MBA is a plus, not a requirement.
• Exceptional written communication, sharp and clear, not templated.
• A high-ownership operator who works from loose briefs and comes back with results.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, speed, and shifting priorities.
• Strong with Google Sheets, Excel, CRMs, and AI tools for research and execution.
• Bonus: prior exposure to agencies, startups, sales, BD, or a chief of staff style role.

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