Founder s Office Strategy & Corporate Development

Founder's Office – Strategy & Corporate Development

Location: Bengaluru, India

Experience: 2–5 years

Function: Founder's Office | Strategy & Corporate Development

Company: RagaAI

About RagaAI

RagaAI is building the next generation of AI solutions to solve complex real-world problems using advanced AI and machine learning.

We are looking for a high-caliber Strategy & Corporate Development professional to work closely with the founders on the company's most important strategic and fundraising initiatives.

This is a high-impact Founder's Office role for someone who combines strong strategic thinking with hands-on execution and has experience working on both corporate strategy and fundraising / corporate development.

The Role

You will work directly with the founder across company strategy, fundraising, investor engagement, market intelligence, strategic partnerships, and other high-priority initiatives.

The ideal candidate is comfortable moving between an analytical strategy problem, an investor conversation, a financial model, and execution of a critical company initiative.

This is not a strategy-only role. You will be expected to take ownership and drive projects from problem definition → analysis → recommendation → execution.

Key Responsibilities

1. Corporate Strategy

• Work with the founder to define and execute RagaAI's strategic priorities.
• Analyze markets, competitors, customers, technologies, and emerging opportunities.
• Evaluate new markets, products, business models, and growth opportunities.
• Develop business cases and recommendations for strategic decisions.
• Build frameworks and analyses to support founder-level decision making.
• Track industry and competitive developments, particularly across AI and enterprise technology.

2. Fundraising & Corporate Development

• Work closely with the founder on fundraising strategy and execution across current and future financing rounds.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the investor landscape across VCs, growth investors, strategic investors, and other sources of capital.
• Identify, research, and build relationships with relevant investors.
• Prepare fundraising materials including investor presentations, company narratives, financial analyses, market sizing, and investment theses.
• Support preparation for investor meetings and help develop tailored investor messaging.
• Maintain fundraising pipeline, investor outreach, meeting status, follow-ups, and next steps.
• Conduct investor research and develop insights on investment theses, portfolio companies, and relevant market activity.
• Support financial modeling, valuation analysis, fundraising scenarios, and capital strategy.
• Coordinate diligence requests across finance, business, product, technology, and other functions.
• Support the founders through the fundraising process from investor identification and outreach through diligence and closing.
• Develop and maintain relationships with existing investors and support ongoing investor communications.

3.  Founder's Office / Strategic Initiatives

• Work directly with the founder on high-priority and often ambiguous strategic initiatives.
• Take ownership of cross-functional projects that are critical to the company's growth.
• Convert ambiguous questions into structured analyses and actionable recommendations.
• Prepare executive-level presentations, decision documents, and board/investor materials.
• Track and drive execution of strategic initiatives across the organization.
• Step into new areas as priorities evolve.

What We're Looking For

Must Have

• 2–5 years of professional experience in one or more of:
• Corporate Strategy
• Corporate Development
• Investment Banking
• Management Consulting
• Venture Capital / Private Equity
• Strategy & Business Development
• Demonstrated experience in BOTH strategy and fundraising/corporate development.
• Prior experience supporting or executing a fundraising process is highly desirable.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and structured-thinking abilities.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to create compelling, concise executive and investor materials.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with numbers.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple high-priority initiatives.
• Comfort working directly with founders and senior leadership.

Strongly Preferred

• Experience in startup fundraising / capital raising.
• Experience working with VCs, PE firms, strategic investors, or investment banks.
• Experience preparing fundraising decks, financial models, investor updates, or due-diligence materials.
• Experience in a technology, SaaS, AI/ML, or high-growth startup.
• Understanding of venture capital and the startup financing ecosystem.
• Prior experience in investment banking, management consulting, or a high-growth startup.
• The Ideal Candidate

You are someone who:

• Thinks strategically but is highly execution-oriented.
• Can build a market-sizing model in the morning and prepare for an investor meeting in the afternoon.
• Understands what makes a company compelling to investors.
• Can take a complex business and turn it into a simple, compelling narrative.
• Is comfortable with financial models, presentations, data, and executive communication.
• Enjoys working on ambiguous problems with no predefined playbook.
• Has strong commercial judgment and intellectual curiosity.
• Is comfortable operating with founders and senior executives.
• Has high ownership, urgency, and attention to detail.

What Success Looks Like

In the first 6–12 months, you will:

• Become a trusted strategic partner to the founder.
• Help develop and execute RagaAI's fundraising strategy.
• Build and manage a high-quality investor pipeline.
• Strengthen RagaAI's investor narrative, materials, and financial positioning.
• Support the founders in investor meetings and fundraising execution.
• Independently drive important strategic projects from analysis through execution.
• Identify strategic opportunities across markets, partnerships, and growth initiatives.

Why Join RagaAI

• Work directly with the founders on company-defining decisions.
• Get exposure to strategy, fundraising, investors, partnerships, and company building.
• Work at the intersection of AI, technology, and business strategy.
• High degree of ownership and autonomy.
• Opportunity to play a meaningful role in the next phase of RagaAI's growth.

If you are excited by the opportunity to work directly with the founder, shape company strategy, and help build and execute a successful fundraising process, we'd love to hear from you.