Strategy & Operations Associate

Ahmedabad, Gujarat | Full-time, On-site | Monday to Saturday

About the Role

Work directly with the Founder & CEO across product, customers, research, and operations. Take on real responsibility from your first week and see every piece of work through to a verified result. This is an early-career role, for recent graduates and professionals with up to 3 years of experience.

About SVECTOR

SVECTOR builds intelligence infrastructure and enterprise AI systems for institutions across multiple industries, spanning enterprise AI, healthcare, industrial intelligence, talent intelligence, and financial intelligence. Engineering, product, research, customers, and business execution sit close together, and this role sits in the middle of all of it.

Key Responsibilities

Product and Customer Work

• Use our products and understand how customers actually work.
• Test whether agreed workflows work in practice.
• Join customer discovery, demonstrations, and pilots, and follow each through to an agreed result.
• Turn customer feedback into clear requirements with acceptance criteria for Product and Engineering.
• Explain APIs, data flows, and technical constraints in plain business terms.

Research and Analysis

• Investigate unfamiliar companies, markets, competitors, and technologies from original sources.
• Separate verified facts, estimates, assumptions, and your own interpretation.
• Brief the Founder & CEO on findings, their implications, and recommended actions.

Execution and Follow-Through

• Carry assigned initiatives from an agreed objective to a verified result.
• Identify roadblocks, secure missing inputs, and attempt practical fixes before escalating.
• Maintain clear records of tasks, owners, deadlines, and open issues.
• Raise risks early, supported by facts and recommendations.

Communication and Company Operations

• Prepare briefs, customer follow-ups, internal notes, and meeting records requiring minimal revision.
• Support selected hiring processes: candidate research, interview preparation, and onboarding.
• Handle company, customer, and personnel information with strict discretion.
• Understand the approval lines for pricing, contracts, offers, and company commitments, which always require Founder & CEO approval.

What a Typical Month Can Look Like

• Test a product workflow, reproduce an issue, and document it for Engineering action.
• Build a profile of a prospective customer for an important meeting.
• Coordinate a customer pilot, managing inputs, participants, setup, follow-up, and handover.
• Research a technology or competitor and brief the Founder & CEO.
• Assist in evaluating candidates for another role.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Comfortable with technology: understand, or be keen to quickly learn, how software, APIs, and data flow between systems.
• Regular, responsible user of AI tools who checks output and can explain the work without the tool.

Qualifications

• A recent graduate, or someone with up to 4 years of experience (internships, startups, research, and serious projects all count).
• A bachelor's degree. Computer Science, IT, engineering, AI, or data backgrounds are preferred, but other degrees are welcome if technical understanding can be demonstrated.
• Clear in written and spoken English.
• A fast, careful thinker who learns unfamiliar subjects quickly and checks the facts.
• Someone who has finished something difficult (e.g., a project, internship, venture, research) and can explain exactly what they did.
• Dependable, honest about problems and mistakes, and committed to seeing work through.

You do not need to match every point. We care about evidence of ability and drive more than any particular title, college, or tool.

Your First 90 Days

• Days 1 to 30: Learn the products and workflows, join customer and team discussions, and complete a first assignment.
• Days 31 to 60: Own a defined objective such as a pilot, implementation task, or research project.
• Days 61 to 90: Carry an initiative to a verified result and complete the handover.

What This Role Is Not

• A personal assistant or errands role.
• A scheduling or administrative role.
• A narrow specialist role.
• A senior or leadership position.
• A remote or hybrid role.

Working Arrangement

• Full-time and on-site in Ahmedabad.
• Working days: Monday to Saturday.
• Important customer, product, or company matters may occasionally require a response outside normal hours.