Founder's Office

We are hiring one person to run the Founder's Office at a seed-stage deep-tech startup building hardware infrastructure for the space industry. This is not a management or strategy position.

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It is a high-agency, high-execution role where you work directly with the CEO to keep the company moving fast across every non-technical front. You are the operational backbone that lets the founding team focus on building the product.

If the CEO is in a lab review, you are the person making sure the vendor shipment is tracked, the investor update draft is ready, the next hire's interview is scheduled, and the board pre-read is being assembled. You do not wait to be told. You see the gap and you fill it.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

•       AI-augmented execution: Use Claude and other AI tools daily as a force multiplier for drafting, research, data structuring, and analysis. This is not optional -- it is core to how this role operates.

•       Investor relations execution: Own the monthly update cadence. Chase inputs, pull financial data, draft updates, send individually addressed emails, track follow-ups.

•       Procurement and vendor coordination: Track POs, shipping, customs, delivery timelines across international suppliers. Escalate blockers before anyone asks.

•       Meeting prep and follow-through: Assemble pre-reads, prepare talking points, capture action items, chase every item to closure for board, partner, and media meetings.

•       Hiring pipeline: Screen resumes, coordinate interviews, run reference checks, manage offer logistics. You make the hiring process fast and friction-free.

•       Finance and compliance ops: Coordinate with the CA on GST, payroll, banking. Keep MIS current. Handle filings and regulatory paperwork.

Requirements

WHO YOU ARE

PROFILE A: OPERATOR 1–3 years in ops, consulting, or a high-growth startup. You haveshipped real work: managed vendor pipelines, run investor comms, coordinated cross-functional execution. Slow environments make you restless.	PROFILE B: BUILDER A sharp, high-energy fresh graduate with genuine enthusiasm for deep-tech. You may lack years of experience, but you have built things -- side projects, college orgs, freelance work -- and you move fast with minimal hand-holding.

Regardless of profile, you must be:

•       High-agency. You identify problems and solve them without waiting for permission or a roadmap.

•       Relentless on follow-through. Nothing falls through the cracks on your watch.

•       A strong written communicator. Investor emails, vendor follow-ups, board pre-reads -- clear and concise.

•       Comfortable with ambiguity. Processes do not exist yet. You build them.

•       Fluent with AI tools (especially Claude). You use them daily to draft, research, analyze, and move faster.

•       Genuinely interested in deep-tech, space, or hardware. No physics degree needed, but you should care

WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT

•       Not a strategy or management consulting engagement. You execute, not advise.

•       Not a personal assistant or calendar manager. You own outcomes, not schedules.

•       You are a force multiplier for the founder.