Website:
etyservices.com
Job details:
Founder's Office Intern → PPO
Location: Gandhinagar - On site
Employment Type: Internship → Pre-Placement Offer (PPO)
Internship Stipend: ₹10,000 – ₹15,000 per month
Post-Internship: PPO based on performance, capability, and organizational fit
About the Role
We are looking for a smart, highly driven, and intellectually curious individual to join the Founder's Office.
This is not a conventional internship where you will be assigned a fixed set of repetitive tasks. You will work closely with the Founder's Office and get exposure to business operations, people management, technology, internal processes, strategic initiatives, client/deal management, and decision-making.
The role requires someone who can think independently, understand problems deeply, figure things out, and take ownership.
We are looking for someone who doesn't wait for instructions at every step.
If you see a problem, you should be able to understand it, research it, propose a solution, and drive it toward execution.
You will essentially act as an extension of the Founder's Office and will be involved in making sure that things across the organization move in the right direction.
What You Will Work On
1. Founder's Office Operations
- Manage and coordinate meetings, calls, reviews, and discussions.
- Maintain meeting calendars, agendas, follow-ups, and action items.
- Coordinate with employees, leadership, clients, partners, and external stakeholders.
- Ensure important tasks and commitments are followed through.
- Prepare notes, summaries, reports, and follow-up trackers.
- Assist the Founder's Office in day-to-day execution and coordination.
2. Employee & Internal Coordination
- Coordinate with different teams and understand their ongoing work.
- Track deliverables, deadlines, dependencies, and pending activities.
- Follow up with employees and ensure commitments are being executed.
- Identify bottlenecks and escalate important issues appropriately.
- Help improve accountability and operational discipline across teams.
- Understand how different departments interact with each other.
3. Business & Process Management
- Study existing company processes and identify gaps or inefficiencies.
- Suggest improvements in workflows, communication, documentation, and execution.
- Help design and implement internal processes and SOPs.
- Identify repetitive/manual processes that can be optimized or automated.
- Understand the business logic behind processes, rather than simply following them.
- Take ownership of process-improvement initiatives from idea to implementation.
4. Deals, Clients & Business Development Support
- Assist in managing ongoing business discussions and deals.
- Track proposals, quotations, negotiations, commitments, and follow-ups.
- Coordinate between internal teams and clients/stakeholders.
- Maintain deal-related documentation and status.
- Research potential opportunities, markets, competitors, and businesses.
- Support the Founder's Office in evaluating business opportunities.
5. Research & R&D
A major part of this role will involve Research & Development.
You should be comfortable with:
- Finding information independently.
- Researching technologies, companies, products, markets, and competitors.
- Understanding new tools and technologies.
- Comparing different solutions and identifying their advantages/disadvantages.
- Converting research into practical recommendations.
- Going deep into a topic instead of relying on surface-level information.
"I don't know" is acceptable.
"I don't know, but I'll figure it out" is the mindset we are looking for.
6. Technology & Product Understanding
You do not necessarily need to be a hardcore developer, but you should have a strong understanding of technology and how modern software businesses work.
You should have a basic understanding of:
- Websites and web applications
- Mobile applications
- APIs
- Databases
- Cloud infrastructure
- AI / Generative AI
- Automation
- SaaS products
- Software development lifecycle
- Basic system architecture
- Emerging technologies and current tech trends
You should be able to have a meaningful conversation with developers and understand what they are building, why they are building it, how it works, and what the business impact is.
What We Are Looking For
🧠 Logical & Analytical Thinking
You should be able to break a large problem into smaller components, understand dependencies, identify root causes, and arrive at practical solutions.
🚀 Self-Starter
We are not looking for someone who needs a task list every morning.
You should be able to identify:
"This needs to be done."
and then take the initiative to get it done.
🔍 Curious & Research-Oriented
You should naturally ask:
- Why does this work this way?
- Can this be done better?
- What are others doing?
- Is there a better technology?
- Can this process be automated?
- What happens if this fails?
- What are we missing?
🎯 Ownership Mindset
If you take responsibility for something, you should own it from understanding → planning → execution → follow-up → closure.
We value people who say:
"I'll take care of it."
and actually do.
💡 Business Understanding
You should be able to understand the relationship between:
People → Process → Technology → Cost → Revenue → Customer → Business Outcome
You should not look at tasks in isolation. You should understand why the task exists and what impact it has on the organization.
⚡ Smart & Self-Propelled
We are looking for someone with strong intellectual ability, common sense, and the ability to operate independently.
You should be comfortable working in situations where:
- There is no predefined process.
- The problem is ambiguous.
- Information is incomplete.
- You need to talk to multiple people.
- You need to research something yourself.
- You need to make a recommendation.
Ideal Candidate
This role may be particularly suitable for someone from backgrounds such as:
- B.Tech / B.E.
- BBA / MBA
- BCA / MCA
- Computer Science / IT
- Engineering
- Business & Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Any other relevant background
However, your degree matters less than your ability to think.
We would rather hire a highly curious person with strong problem-solving ability than someone with an impressive resume but little initiative.
Skills We Value
Must Have:
- Strong communication skills
- Excellent organizational ability
- Logical and analytical thinking
- Strong research skills
- Good business understanding
- Proactive mindset
- Ownership mentality
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Good documentation and follow-up skills
- Basic understanding of technology
- Strong curiosity about businesses and technology
Good to Have:
- Startup experience
- Product management exposure
- Project management experience
- Technical background
- Understanding of SaaS / technology businesses
- AI / automation knowledge
- Business research experience
- Experience with tools such as Notion, Google Workspace, Slack, project-management tools, CRM, AI tools, etc.
What You Will Learn
This role provides exposure to the complete operating cycle of a company.
You will get an opportunity to understand:
- How companies actually operate
- How founders make decisions
- How teams are managed
- How projects are executed
- How clients and deals are handled
- How internal processes are designed
- How technology supports business
- How products are built
- How problems are identified and solved
- How business opportunities are evaluated
- How strategy is converted into execution
You will work closely with the Founder's Office, which means your learning curve can be significantly higher than that of a conventional internship.
Internship → PPO Structure
This position follows a performance-based Internship → PPO model.
Internship
Duration: As mutually agreed
Stipend: ₹10,000 – ₹15,000/month
During the internship, you will be evaluated on:
- Ownership
- Intelligence and problem-solving
- Speed of learning
- Initiative
- Communication
- Execution ability
- Reliability
- Business understanding
- Ability to work independently
- Contribution to the organization
PPO
Based on your performance during the internship, you may receive a Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) for a full-time role.
The post-internship role, compensation, responsibilities, and designation will be determined based on:
Performance + Capability + Ownership + Organizational Fit
Who Should NOT Apply?
This role is not suitable for someone who:
- Needs constant instructions.
- Only wants to complete assigned tasks.
- Is uncomfortable taking responsibility.
- Doesn't like researching things independently.
- Avoids difficult or ambiguous problems.
- Doesn't care about how the business works.
- Is unwilling to learn technology.
- Says "that's not my job" when something needs to be solved.
- Needs someone else to identify both the problem and the solution.
Who Should Apply?
If you are the kind of person who:
sees a problem → investigates it → understands it → figures out a solution → takes ownership → gets it executed,
then this role could be an excellent fit.
We are looking for someone who wants to learn how a company works from the inside, work closely with leadership, solve real problems, and grow into a high-responsibility business/technology role.
The mindset we are looking for:
Don't wait for the next task. Find the next problem worth solving.Don't just report a problem. Come with a solution.Don't just complete work. Own the outcome.
If that sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
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