Associate, Founder's Office -Strategy & Investor Relations

Company Description The Associate, Founder's Office (Strategy & Investor Relations) will work directly with the CEO across the full capital raising cycle, investor relations and board operations, corporate strategy, and the positioning of the company to investors, partners and the wider market. Direct CEO, board and investor exposure; a clear path to a strategy or business-line leadership role. Makers Hive is the company that invented KalArm, India's first fully functional bionic hand, designed and manufactured in India. The company is entering its scale chapter, with a portfolio spanning bionic prosthetics, assistive devices and dexterous robotics across Indian and international markets, and is preparing its Series A capital raise.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Series A: capital raising Support the CEO through the full fundraising cycle: business plan, financial model and investor collateral; investor targeting and outreach sequencing; meeting preparation, notes and follow-up; and the running record of every conversation from first contact through to term sheet and closing.

Data room ownership: Build, structure and own the data room end to end across the corporate, financial, commercial, technical, regulatory and legal workstreams; enforce version control and access management; audit the full set for internal consistency so that no two documents disagree.

Due diligence management: Act as the single point of coordination for the entire diligence process: log and route every question, work with finance, legal, engineering and regulatory to prepare responses, maintain the diligence tracker, and close every item within agreed turnaround times.

Investor outreach and pipeline: Research and build the target investor list; qualify funds by thesis, stage, cheque size and portfolio fit; prepare outreach material and map warm introduction pathways; maintain pipeline discipline so that no conversation goes cold and no follow-up is missed.

Investor relations and stakeholder management: Maintain the investor CRM and relationship record; issue investor updates on a fixed monthly cadence; manage the communication rhythm with existing investors, board members and advisors; prepare the CEO ahead of every investor and board interaction. Board operations: Prepare board packs, pre-reads, minutes and resolutions; track action items to closure; maintain the record of commitments made to the board and to investors.

Corporate strategy and reporting: uild the analysis behind pricing, margin, market-entry and portfolio decisions; prepare option papers for the CEO and the board; consolidate revenue, pipeline and margin actuals against plan and flag variances with their causes.

Positioning and narrative: Own the consistency of the company narrative across investor, board, clinical and customer material; maintain the proof-point and case-study library; brief and review agency and marketing output against an agreed message framework

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES:

Build the series: Assemble and audit the complete diligence set across every workstream so that any reasonable investor question can be answered within forty-eight hours, with no inconsistency between documents.

Rebuild the operating model from first principles: Construct the plan from activity drivers rather than from targets, with every assumption documented and defensible under diligence

Build and run the investor pipeline: Establish the target list, the qualification criteria, the outreach sequence and the follow-up discipline that carries conversations from first meeting to term sheet.

Institutionalise investor reporting: Move board and investor communication to a fixed monthly and quarterly cadence with no slippage and no inconsistency between documents

Codify the company narrative: Produce a single message framework governing investor, clinical, partner and customer communication, and hold all outbound material to it

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: Background MBA, Chartered Accountant or equivalent qualification; candidates from management consulting, transaction and deal advisory, financial research, investment banking, venture capital, or an early operating role at a funded company are all relevant

Financial modelling: The ability to build a driver-based operating model independently and to defend every assumption within it.

Writing: Exceptionalwritten English. Investor-grade writing is a core requirement of this role and will be assessed.

Running a process: Demonstrated ability to run a process with multiple external parties and internal functions to a deadline, and to close action items without escalation.

Senior stakeholders: Ability to manage senior stakeholders with composure, including investors, board members and external advisors.

Discretion: High discretion and sound judgement. The role has early sight of the company's most sensitive commercial, financial and strategic information.

AI fluency: Comfortable using AI tools for research, analysis and drafting, with the judgement to check their output before it reaches an investor.

Preferred edge: Direct exposure to a fundraise, data room or due diligence process; working knowledge of cap tables, term sheets and corporate structuring; interest in medical devices, assistive technology or deeptech.

HOW TO APPLY

01.Send Your CV and a short note (under 300 words) to [HIDDEN TEXT]. Tell us one thing you noticed about Makers Hive and what you would do about it.

02.Assignment Shortlisted candidates take a short assignment.

03.Meet the founder Walk the CEO through your assignment, followed by a round of interviews. Subject line: Associate, Founder's Office - Strategy & IR. A link to something you have built or written is welcome but optional.