THE COMPANY

We are building India's first dedicated institution for finance.

Not a general management school with a finance elective, but a purpose-built institution designed for the top tier of talent in banking, financial services, and investing.

The curriculum is being co-created with industry leaders, authored by practitioners, and reviewed by an academic council drawn from leading Indian and global institutions.

The institution is currently being built in Mumbai, with the inaugural cohort expected in 2027.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape an institution from the ground up while many of its defining decisions are still being made.

THE ROLE

The most important work in a founding organisation rarely sits inside a single function.

It lives in the gaps - between strategy and execution, between what the founder is focused on and what the institution needs to move forward, between a conversation that went well and an outcome that actually happened.

This role exists to close those gaps.

You will sit close to the centre of the institution's decision-making - not as an observer, but as someone who makes things move. You will carry context across everything, translate direction into action, and take ownership of the work that matters most and has no other natural owner.

The founder should be able to hand you something and not think about it again until you return with a resolution.

THE WORK

Moving the Needle

- Maintain visibility across the institution's highest priorities. Know what is moving, what is stalled, and what needs a decision. Surface the right things at the right time.

Translating Intent into Action

- Take direction from the founder and convert it into plans, workstreams, and outcomes. The gap between a decision being made and a decision being executed is where this role lives.

Senior Stakeholder Engagement

- Represent the institution in rooms that matter. Build relationships with industry leaders, academic partners, and institutional stakeholders. Follow through on every commitment made.

Building What's Missing

- Identify the processes, systems, and structures the institution needs before their absence creates a problem. Then build them.

Owning the Hard Problems

- Some challenges don't fit anywhere. They are cross-functional, sensitive, or simply too important to leave unowned. You take those.

THE PERSON

You understand the difference between being close to the work and being useful to it.

You have operated in environments where trust was earned quickly, judgment was exercised constantly, and the ability to act without being told was not just valued - it was required. You know when to move independently and when to bring something upward. You have never needed that distinction explained to you.

You are not motivated by visibility. You are motivated by outcomes. You are equally comfortable in a room with a CEO and in the weeds of an operational problem - and you know which one the moment demands.

You may have come from a founder's office, a chief of staff role, a strategy function, or a startup where your title never quite captured what you actually did. What matters is the instinct - and the evidence that it has produced results.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

- Judgment that has been tested in real situations, not just described in interviews

- A track record of owning outcomes that required working across people and functions

- The ability to hold context across multiple workstreams without losing resolution on any of them

- Communication that is precise, confident, and calibrated to the audience

- Evidence of building trust quickly with people more senior than you

- Discretion, reliability, and the instinct to know what matters

This role will not suit you if you are looking for a defined lane, a structured mandate, or a role where success is measured by the quality of your analysis rather than the quality of your outcomes.

WHY US?

Institutions that become consequential are built by people who were present at the beginning - who understood what was being attempted, believed in it, and gave it their full capability before the outcome was certain.

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