Founder’s Office Associate (Future Founder Track)

July 20, 2026

Title: Founder’s Office Associate (Future Founder Track)Location: Delhi (primarily on-site; high face-time with Founder)Type: Full-time (open to starting as a 3–6-month internship with a path to full-time)Compensation: ₹6–10 LPA, depending on experience and fit. About the roleThis is a future-founder track role for someone with 1–3 years of experience who wants to start their own venture in the next 2–3 years and is obsessed with bringing structure, data and execution discipline into messy, fast-moving environments. You’ll sit at the intersection of multiple functions, ensuring that action items are tracked, information flows through the right channels, and important details don’t get diluted or lost. You will work directly with the Founders across different verticals (finance visibility, legal, customer onboarding/retention, and other priority initiatives), with a front-row seat to decisions and trade-offs that often never leave the room. This is not a safe, well-defined corporate path. The role will be ambiguous, high-ownership and often uncomfortable. If you need stability, clear boundaries and detailed SOPs for everything, this won’t be a fit. If you want to see the real, unfiltered side of building a business, it will be worth it. What you’ll do 1. Structure, data and executionOwn the central action-item and deadline tracker for the Founder: capture commitments from different discussions (across business, finance, legal, customers) and ensure they are assigned, visible and closed on time. Design and maintain simple, robust data flows so key information (finance, legal, customer, ops) moves through the right internal channels without distortion or drop-offs. Build and improve dashboards, trackers and views that give the Founder and core team clear visibility on what is pending, what’s at risk, and what has been completed. Regularly review open items, flag risks early, and escalate bottlenecks so nothing important “falls between the cracks.” 2. Finance & legal (internal visibility, not heavy coordination) Maintain internal visibility on finance-related data: key inflows/outflows, outstanding payments, and simple MIS-style summaries that help the Founder see the financial picture quickly. Work with internal finance resources/tools to ensure numbers and documents are organised, accessible, and reflected correctly in dashboards and trackers. For legal, interact with external advocates when needed and use the latest AI tools to organise, summarise and classify agreements, notices and other documents. Help build basic systems around contracts (versions, statuses, obligations) so legal information is searchable, structured and always up to date. Finance and legal are important parts of the job, but not the entire job – your core responsibility is structure, visibility and execution across the board. 3. AI-first, workflow automation Use AI tools by default: drafting, summarising, structuring data, building reports, and designing workflows should be AI-augmented rather than fully manual. Identify repetitive processes (in onboarding, reporting, documentation, internal communication) and redesign them with human + AI leverage – starting with one department or flow at a time. Experiment with different tools (copilots, AI note-takers, automation platforms) and standardise those that materially improve speed, accuracy and visibility. Who this is forYou intend to start your own venture in the next ~2–3 years and want to see the unfiltered reality of how a founder thinks, decides and operates. 1–3 years of experience in high-ownership roles in startups, consulting, ops, finance, legal, or data-heavy roles. You’re naturally structured: you enjoy turning chaos into clean lists, systems, dashboards and playbooks. You already live in the AI world – you’ve used AI tools to automate or speed up your own work, not just to “try prompts.” Strong comfort with spreadsheets and basic analysis; you’re okay with tables, metrics and tracking. High discretion and maturity with sensitive information, and deep respect for confidentiality. You’re comfortable with ambiguity, changing priorities and learning on the fly; you’d rather build the path than follow one. Nice to have (not mandatory): Prior exposure to legal (contracts, compliance, documentation) or finance (accounting, FP&A, MIS). Experience working closely with founders or senior leaders in small, fast-moving teams. What you’ll get A front-row seat to critical decision-making that often doesn’t leave the room – including the trade-offs, fears and constraints that actually keep a founder up at night. Deep practice in building structured, data-backed systems – and then automating them with AI – inside a live business. A strong foundation to start your own venture, with clarity on how to keep information flowing, decisions tracked, and execution tight. This is a future-founder track. If we’ve seen you operate and believe in what you go on to build, it’s very likely we’ll be among your first backers — maybe even writing that first cheque. How to apply Send your CV and a short note on darpan@xportel.com cc career@xportel.com (Subject - Founder’s Office Associate) A workflow or project you’ve structured or automated using AI (even a small one). Why you want a future-founder track role instead of a conventional job. Optionally, share a Loom/video or a simple doc walkthrough of something you’ve built (a dashboard, tracker, automation, or system you’re proud of).