Edup Connect
Website:
edupconnect.com
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About the Role
Edup Connect is looking for an Associate, Founder’s Office, to work directly with the Founder & CEO on strategic priorities, new business initiatives, partnerships, business analysis, and cross-functional projects.
This is a high-ownership role designed for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous business problems and can move comfortably between research, strategy, analysis, and execution.
This is not an Executive Assistant or administrative role. The Associate will be expected to understand business problems, structure them, conduct the required analysis, recommend solutions, and help drive execution.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Special Projects
- Work directly with the Founder on strategic and high-priority business initiatives.
- Research and evaluate new markets, geographies, products, services, and business opportunities.
- Conduct market sizing, competitor analysis, feasibility studies, and opportunity assessments.
- Convert early-stage ideas into structured business cases, recommendations, and execution plans.
- Lead or coordinate special projects that do not sit within a single business function.
Business Analysis & Decision Support
- Analyze sales, revenue, operational, customer, and program performance data.
- Build reports, dashboards, forecasts, and basic financial models.
- Identify trends, bottlenecks, risks, and opportunities from business data.
- Prepare concise decision briefs and recommendations for the Founder.
- Track important business metrics and strategic priorities.
New Initiatives & Business Development
- Identify and research potential business opportunities, partnerships, institutions, and markets.
- Evaluate the commercial viability and strategic relevance of opportunities.
- Support the development of business cases, proposals, partnership models, and go-to-market plans.
- Assist in taking promising opportunities from research to pilot and execution.
Partnerships
- Research potential domestic and international partners.
- Prepare background research and briefs ahead of important meetings.
- Support partnership proposals, presentations, negotiations, and follow-ups.
- Coordinate internally to ensure agreed partnership initiatives move toward execution.
Cross-functional Execution
- Work across sales, marketing, operations, finance, and other teams on founder-led priorities.
- Establish timelines, ownership, deliverables, and measurable outcomes for projects.
- Follow through on initiatives and identify execution bottlenecks.
- Ensure important projects move from discussion to implementation.
What We’re Looking For
Core Skills
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving ability.
- Excellent research and information synthesis skills.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets.
- Ability to work with data and build basic financial and business models.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Ability to create clear presentations, reports, and decision documents.
- Good commercial understanding of revenue, costs, margins, customers, and business growth.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently.
Experience & Qualifications
- 1–3 years of professional experience.
- Experience in startups, consulting, strategy, business operations, business development, research, venture capital, or similar roles is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, management, or another relevant discipline.
- MBA is not mandatory.
- Startup experience is advantageous but not required.
We place greater emphasis on problem-solving ability, ownership, commercial thinking, and execution than on pedigree or academic credentials.
What You’ll Gain
- Direct exposure to the founder & CEO and key business decisions.
- Experience across strategy, business development, partnerships, operations, and growth.
- Opportunity to work on new businesses and initiatives from an early stage.
- High ownership and visibility across the organization.
- Rapid learning across multiple business functions.
- Opportunity to take on larger strategic and leadership responsibilities as the company grows.
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