Founder's Office Intern

About The Social Lions

• 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

• Works closely with the founder, running the operating rhythm, supporting the growth engine, and owning initiatives end-to-end.
• 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 founders' calendar, priorities, scheduling, and follow-ups.
• Attend 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.
• Prepare founders for meetings with briefs, background, and clear agendas.
• Act as a point of follow-through between the 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.
• 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; structure findings into clear decisions.
• Act as the founders' execution arm on anything that needs to move fast.
• Content & Communication
• Support 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 own channels.
• Build case study drafts from completed client campaigns.

Qualifications & Tech Stack

• Currently pursuing or recently graduated, any stream.
• Marketing, Commerce, or an MBA is a plus.
• Exceptional written communication, sharp and clear, not templated.
• A high-ownership operator who works from loose briefs and comes back with results.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, speed, and shifting priorities.
• Strong with Google Sheets, Excel, CRMs, and AI tools for research and execution.
• 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.