Employer description & source details
As Founder's Associate, you'll work alongside our founders - Manu Chopra (Chief Executive Officer), Safiya Husain (Chief Impact Officer) and Vivek Seshadri (Chief Technology Officer) - and report to the Chief of Staff. You'll be the person who keeps the highest-stakes work moving: meetings prepped, events run, research done, decks ready. Your work will span day-to-day support for the founders, fundraising, storytelling and operations, and the scope will change as Karya does. If you want a front-row seat to how a mission-driven organisation actually runs, and you like saying yes to hard, varied problems, you'll do well here. Support the fundraising team: Carry out strategic donor research and mapping, and lead donor reporting by coordinating with project teams to put together donor-ready documents. Support other internal fundraising initiatives as needed. Partner with the storytelling and social media team: Draft professional collateral, follow up on open threads, and work with the Design and Storytelling team wherever required. You should be comfortable making basic edits in Figma, Canva or Claude Design, exporting assets, and publishing content independently. Support the Customer Success function: Prepare pre-reads for client meetings, draft outreach emails and updates, and support the CEO in mapping potential clients to help Karya reach its 2030 vision. Build operational rigour: Lead a cross-team effort to build documentation, SOPs and clear internal systems at Karya, enabling transparency, efficient handholding, and clear roles and responsibilities. Build the tools and systems needed to champion this. Own the CEO's calendar and stakeholder scheduling, protecting his time for what matters most. Build pre-reads and briefing notes ahead of key meetings, especially throu
Extracted skills: figma, sales, customer success, operations