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Founder’s Office, Strategy & Growth | IIM Bodh Gaya MBA | Product | GTM & Business Operations

About

I work directly with founders and leadership teams - on strategy, growth, partnerships, product, and operations - turning ambiguous business problems into structured, executable initiatives. At The Lascaux, I worked in the Founder's Office on merchant acquisition and partnerships - negotiating with 6+ logistics partners, structuring payment gateway and SaaS affiliate deals, and setting up a Shopify storefront to validate new offerings. At Coherent Market Insights, I worked in the CEO's Office on strategic alliances - building a barter-based partnership model across 15 global B2B events in 9 industries, driving a ~$300K pipeline, and leading a web-scraping automation initiative that cut manual research effort by 60–70%. As a founding-team Product Associate at an early-stage water-purification startup, I ran 100+ customer interviews that shifted our ICP from urban to Tier-3/rural households - work that supported a ₹2L pre-seed grant from E-Cell, BITS Hyderabad. Alongside this, I ran a QR-based grievance system for 1,500+ residents at IIM Bodh Gaya (500+ grievances, resolution time cut from ~7 days to ≤2), and raised ₹1+ lakh in sponsorships in three weeks for a 3,000+ attendee campus event with zero institutional funding. I'm an MBA graduate from IIM Bodh Gaya (2026), and I'm looking for my next high-ownership role - Founder's Office, Strategy & Growth, or Product - where I can work close to a founder or leadership team and be measured on outcomes, not tenure. Experienced in: Market Research, Customer Research, Competitive Intelligence, Stakeholder Management, Cross-functional Coordination, Process Design, MVP Scoping, ICP Definition, Merchant Acquisition, Business Development founder's office, | chief of staff support | 0-to-1 execution | growth strategy | strategic alliances | GTM strategy | B2B partnerships | product strategy | customer discovery | JTBD | MVP scoping |product-market fit research | process design | operations management | vendor coordination

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude

gemini

n8n

notion

ChatGPT

Work experience

Founder's Office - Strategy & Growth at The Lascaux, Apr 2026 - Jun 2026 · 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Negotiated with 6+ logistics partners, securing 15–20% shipping savings while preserving 25% merchant margins Structured payment gateway partnerships capping merchant fees at 2%, generating 10% lifetime referral revenue Closed SaaS affiliate partnerships with 20–50% recurring platform margins Set up and operationalized a Shopify packaging storefront, sustaining 25%+ margins against local marketplace pricing Documented GTM and Meta Ads playbooks used for merchant acquisition

Management Trainee - CEO's Office at Coherent Market Insights, Mar 2025 - Sep 2025 · 7 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Supported the CEO and leadership team in driving strategic growth initiatives through knowledge and media partnerships across the healthcare, chemical, and ICT domains. Managed the complete partnership lifecycle, including event identification, stakeholder outreach, negotiation, and execution, contributing to increased global brand visibility and lead generation. Led cross-functional collaboration across research, content, and client teams to ensure the seamless execution of CEO-level initiatives and the timely delivery of client commitments. Independently managed automation vendor engagement, aligning data-scraping tools with internal market research processes and operational requirements. Developed standard operating procedures (SOPs) and proposal frameworks that were adopted across the partnership function to improve process standardisation and efficiency. Recognised as Intern of the Month (April 2025) and awarded a Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) for the Strategy & Growth Associate role.

Product Associate - Founding Team at Stealth Startup, Oct 2024 - Mar 2025 · 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Owned zero-to-one product discovery for an early-stage water-purification startup (pre-seed funded ₹2L by E-Cell, BITS Hyderabad) Conducted 100+ JTBD interviews across urban and Tier-3/rural segments, shifting the team's ICP from Tier-1 to high-intent Tier-3 households Defined MVP trade-offs (nano-membrane filtration, gravity-based flow, modular maintenance) based on validated user constraints, not assumptions Re-tested value propositions with the same cohort, showing a ~22% increase in pilot registration intent

Sponsorship & Revenue Lead at Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya, Oct 2024 - Nov 2024 · 2 mos, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India, Secured ₹1+ lakh in sponsorships in 3 weeks by pitching conservative, ROI-based revenue models to local businesses, with zero institutional funding Designed tiered sponsorship packaging based on business segmentation, driving ₹3 lakh in on-ground revenue across 3,000+ attendees

Committee Representative – Hostel & Mess Operations at Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya, Aug 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India, Launched a QR-based grievance system for 1,500+ residents, resolving 500+ issues and cutting average resolution time from ~7 days to ≤2 days Designed a feedback dashboard aligning ingredient procurement with student demand patterns Reduced chronic meal shortages and food waste through demand-based procurement planning

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya

Bachelor's of engineering in Computer Science, Computer Science, Sandip Institute of Technology, & Research Centre