Principal - Strategy & Operations - Startup Studio

Principal (Sherpa) - Startup Studio (Strategy and Operations)

About build3:

We're a mission driven startup studio (read more here) that builds impact oriented startups to better the mind, body and the earth. We work with Founders as their institutional co-founder until their venture is a self sufficient organisation and ready to scale. But we are not advisors, mentors, investors, incubators or accelerators - we are all of these! We are always co-building with the Founder, creatively, conscientiously, through the power of communities.

Your mission, should you choose to accept (accountabilities):

Startup DISCOVERY :

- Create and execute sourcing strategy to build a pipeline of impact startups in the manufacturing & engineering + technology & services domain

- Reaching out to the best channels to find impact startups and supporting them to apply for our program

- Attend appropriate events to network (online/offline)

- Partner with like-minded organisations (institutions / incubators / accelerators etc)

- Implement an online strategy along with publishing experience based content

- Consider PR if relevant

- Lead implementation of in-house events (demo day ; startup social)

ESTABLISH FIT :

- Assess and finalise the most aligned impact startups to invest in and build

- Lead smooth functioning and designing operational processes like pipeline management, syncing and coordinating with team members, investors & founders

- Run market research to assess viability of startups

- Collect data and complete an internal scorecard to determine mutual fit (includes data analysis, financial modelling etc)

- Close deals and agreements, post thorough startup due diligence and associated compliances, with experts and internal team members

- Ensure collection and analysis of founder feedback leading to process improvement

- Build - Take startups from zero to one and be a 'sherpa' on their growth journey

- Be the 'sherpa' to founders, assist when asked, not be an overbearing alpha, working in the founders best interest and offering advise through examples

- Lead founder workshops in different expertise areas

- Manage and update the internal stakeholders like advisors and investors

- Manage the community of vendors and engage mentors/subject matter experts when required, in areas such as strategy, sales, marketing, finance, fundraising, process design etc.

- Document communication with the founders transparently, with the 'why' and data-driven insights

- Train new team members and support the hiring process

- Identify and implement tech tools as per the requirement

- Support in running our syndicate program to facilitate follow-on funding for startups

What you need to bring to the table (skills, character traits):

MUST HAVE :

- Experience of building startups, either your own startup(s) or as part of the founding team (product and organization building experience) and in the startup as founder/part of founding team, have raised funding and achieved profitability, and are willing to work primarily for equity/profit share.

- A structured approach to understanding a founder's needs.

- Experience in working with multiple startups (as a consultant or at an incubator/accelerator/VC) and a good understanding/access to the entrepreneurship ecosystem

- Ability to deal seamlessly with cross-functional teams and multiple organizations

- Communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally, with founders, traditional business leaders, peers, and mentors

- Design think and structure product development end-to-end

- Personality traits include being structured, organised, motivated, social, energetic, empathetic, humble, self-managers/starters, and patient to guide founders and build startups effectively.

- Overall alignment to build3 values is a must, do have a look at our not-so-long list

- Proficiency in English, knowledge of Hindi is a good to have ; the role is based out of Goa

Why should you consider us (things that make us different):

- Be around energetic, and mission oriented people

- A lot of freedom and responsibility

- Experience working with well heeled entrepreneurs and enthusiastic community members

- Work on a variety of projects

- We compensate frugally at first, but we will share generously the value we create together

Here are our values!

Our team is waiting eagerly for you to apply!