About Us:

We are a fast-growing D2C brand creating safe, premium, and fun kitchenware for kids and families BPA-free stainless steel bento boxes, tiffin boxes, sippers, and plates thoughtfully designed for Indian homes.

Why This Role Exists

We are building one of India's most loved kids' kitchenware brands from the ground up. As we scale, we need someone who doesn't just support the founder - someone who thinks like a founder, acts like a founder, and owns outcomes like a founder.

This is not a Chief of Staff who manages calendars and prepares decks. This is a Mini Founder - someone who picks up entire functions, runs them independently, and reports back with results. You will anticipate what needs to happen next and make it happen before being asked.

If you are a sharp, ambitious operator with an analytical mind and an entrepreneurial hunger - this is the role that will define your career.

The Role in One Line:

- You are the founder's second self owning ops, data, strategy, investor relations, growth experiments, and everything in between.

What You Will Own?

1. Operations The Engine

- Co-own the entire ops function supply chain, vendor management, inventory, fulfilment, Amazon

- Track every operational metric RTO, CPO, fill rate, inventory turns, vendor SLAs

- Flag operational problems before they become crises

- Build SOPs, playbooks, and dashboards that make ops run on autopilot

- Own vendor performance reviews data, scorecards, corrective actions

- Drive execution on open ops items independently without hand-holding

2. Data & Analytics - The Brain

- Own the entire business dashboard revenue, margins, CAC, LTV, RTO, inventory, COGS

- Build financial models, unit economics frameworks, and scenario analyses from scratch

- Translate raw data into sharp insights and founder-ready recommendations

- Build weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reports

- Identify P&L leakages, cost optimization opportunities, and revenue gaps using data

- Own demand forecasting models - predict what will sell, when, and how much

- Build competitive intelligence - track what competitors are doing on pricing, products, channels

3. Investor Relations - The Face

- Own investor reporting end to end monthly MIS, board decks, investor updates

- Build and maintain the data room financials, metrics, cap table, legal documents

- Prepare pitch materials, business plans, and financial models for fundraising rounds

- Track investor relationships communication cadence, follow-ups, relationship management

- Monitor key metrics and translate them into compelling investor narratives

- Support due diligence processes data, documents, and analysis

- Attend investor meetings with or on behalf of the founder

4. Strategy & Growth - The Compass

- Own Annual Operating Plan - target setting, resource allocation, milestone tracking

- Identify new growth levers - new channels, new geographies, new product categories

- Build business cases for every strategic decision - new 3PL, new warehouse, new market

- Run competitive and market research - consumer trends, category dynamics, white spaces

- Track industry news, D2C trends, and competitive moves - brief founders weekly

- Evaluate new partnerships, vendor relationships, and channel opportunities

- Own post-mortem analysis on every major initiative - what worked, what didn't, why

5. Cross-Functional Glue - The Connector

- Run weekly business reviews - prep, facilitate, document, and follow through

- Ensure every decision made in founder meetings is executed on time with accountability

- Work across marketing, ops, finance, and customer experience to drive alignment

- Own hiring support JDs, screening criteria, interview coordination for key roles

- Build org structure recommendations as the company scales

- Manage special projects that don't fit anywhere else

6. Research & Intelligence The Scout

- Own consumer research what are customers saying, what do they want next

- Build category research market sizing, channel analysis, pricing benchmarks

- Track D2C brand playbooks how did Mamaearth, boAt, Wow Skin Science scale

- Research new markets, new product opportunities, and new distribution channels

- Provide weekly founder briefing 3 things happening in the market worth knowing

Who We Are Looking For

- 2-6 years of experience across consulting, PE/VC, investment banking, founder's office, or strategy roles at a startup

- Strong analytical and financial modelling skills Excel/Sheets is non-negotiable, SQL is a strong plus

- Has worked closely with founders or CXO-level leaders

- Entrepreneurial mindset has either built something, or desperately wants to

- Sharp written and verbal communication investor decks, vendor calls, founder briefs all need to be excellent

- Comfortable owning 10 things simultaneously without dropping any

- High attention to detail investor materials and financial models must be perfect

- Proactive to the extreme identifies the problem, builds the solution, presents the recommendation

- Startup-first mindset excited by chaos, not paralysed by it

- Genuinely curious reads widely, thinks deeply, connects dots others miss