Founder’s office Associate

About the Role

Women in Product India is seeking a Founder’s Office Associate – Community & Events to help build and scale one of India’s most ambitious communities for product, technology, AI, and startup leaders. This is a hands-on role working directly with the founder, owning key aspects of the community, events, premium membership, and partnerships ecosystem across India. The ideal candidate understands that great communities are built through strong relationships, consistent value, thoughtful programming, and creating reasons for people to return.

What You’ll Own

Community & Member Experience

• Build meaningful relationships with community members, leaders, speakers, mentors, and contributors.
• Drive engagement and retention across community channels and programs.
• Identify the needs of different community segments and translate these insights into programs and experiences.
• Work closely with city leads and community partners to strengthen presence across India.
• Identify and nurture highly engaged members into speakers, mentors, volunteers, city leaders, and other community roles.
• Track community engagement, feedback, retention, and program performance.

Events & Programming

• Create and manage the annual community and events calendar.
• Run existing formats, continuously improving their quality, participation, and retention.
• Introduce new formats based on community needs, including leadership roundtables, workshops, founder sessions, networking experiences, and larger gatherings.
• Work with speakers, venues, partners, and internal teams to execute events from idea to completion.
• Coordinate programming across different WIP India cities, maintaining consistency in experience and quality.
• Gather post-event insights to improve future programming.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Previous experience building, leading, or managing a community.
• Experience organizing events, programs, meetups, conferences, or community experiences.
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal.
• Comfortable building relationships with diverse individuals, from early-career members to founders and senior executives.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills with a proven ability to follow through.
• Highly organized, capable of managing multiple programs, cities, and timelines simultaneously.
• Strong bias toward execution; proactively moving initiatives forward.
• Understanding of how to balance community value with business outcomes.
• Curiosity about product, technology, startups, and AI.
• Enjoy experimenting with new formats and questioning traditional approaches.

You will have the opportunity to shape the future of WIP India, including formats, experiences, partnerships, and how we serve an ambitious community across India.