Founder's Office Intern

About The Social Lions

• A creative-first integrated marketing agency based in Mumbai.
• Seven years in, a lean, fast team building brands across social, performance, branding, and digital PR.
• Clients in jewellery, luxury experiences, healthcare, and fashion.

The Role

• This is not a support role; it is a seat inside the founders' operating rhythm.
• You will sit inside decisions, own work that ships, and learn how a business is run from the inside.
• Designed to grow with you: as you take ownership, the scope expands to business strategy, partnerships, and team leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Founder's Office & Operating Rhythm

• Support the founders' calendar, priorities, scheduling, and follow-ups.
• Sit in on client, internal, and business meetings.
• Capture decisions, convert them to action items, and drive them to closure.
• Own the founders' commitment and task tracker.
• Chase, update, and close loops across the team.
• Help prepare founders for meetings with briefs, background, and clear agendas.
• Act as a point of follow-through between founders and the rest of the team.

Business Development & Growth

• Own the top of the growth funnel: prospect research, targeted lead lists, and first-touch outreach.
• Identify brands actively looking for an agency or signalling marketing pain across LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.
• Run outreach and follow-up on behalf of the founders.
• Track every conversation; ensure no lead goes cold.
• Maintain the CRM and pipeline daily.
• Qualify leads and hand off warm prospects with full context.
• Support pitch decks, credentials, and proposals for new business conversations.

Operations, Systems & Accountability

• Help build and maintain trackers, SOPs, and internal systems for scaling.
• Coordinate delivery timelines across active client accounts and flag risks early.
• Prepare weekly and monthly status reports for client and internal reviews.
• Support team accountability to timelines on behalf of the founders.

Strategic Projects & New Initiatives

• Take new initiatives from idea to execution: new service lines, internal builds, experiments, and one-off bets.
• Research markets, competitors, and partnership opportunities, and structure findings into clear decisions.
• Act as the founders' execution arm for fast-moving needs.

Content & Communication

• Support the founders' personal brand and the agency's LinkedIn presence through research, drafting, and posting.
• Draft social posts, captions, and email copy for the agency's channels.
• Build case study drafts from completed client campaigns.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong with Google Sheets, Excel, CRMs, and AI tools for research and execution.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently graduated, any stream.
• Marketing, Commerce, or an MBA is a plus, not a requirement.
• Exceptional written communication: sharp and clear, not templated.
• A high-ownership operator who works from loose briefs and delivers results.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, speed, and shifting priorities.
• Bonus: Prior exposure to agencies, startups, sales, BD, or a chief of staff-style role.

What You Get

• A direct line to the founders and a real seat in how the business is run.
• An internship built to grow into a full-time offer, with a path toward business strategy, partnerships, and leadership.
• Ownership of high-impact work from day one, not a task list.
• A completion certificate and a strong reference built on real, visible work.