Founders Office Intern - Strategic Growth Projects

About the role

You will work directly with the founders of India's first tech-enabled MEP contractor on the strategic bets that compound into the next phase of growth.

Nirmaan is scaling from ₹33 Cr to a targeted ₹150 Cr in revenue over the next two years — across 20+ cities, with a product (the Nirmaan Stack) that already runs 70+ live projects. The company is at the stage where the right strategic initiatives — new city launches, new service lines, large account expansions, operating-model shifts — define the trajectory.

This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role reporting directly to the Founder team. You will own 2–3 strategic projects at any time, from framing the problem to shipping the outcome. The job is to turn a founder's 'we should do X' into a shipped, measured result — complete with the operational handoff that makes it stick.

What you'll do

• Own strategic initiatives end-to-end. New-city launches, service-line expansions, large-account growth plans, operating-model shifts, partnership structures. Each initiative lands with you from problem definition to post-launch metrics.
• Build the business case. Market sizing, financial modeling, scenario analysis, risk assessment. Translate a founder's hypothesis into a defensible plan with numbers behind every claim.
• Run cross-functional execution. Pull in Sales, Projects, Procurement, Tech when needed; coordinate; unblock. Weekly stakeholder alignment and progress reporting to Founders.
• Design and track the metrics. Define the leading indicators that tell you a project is working — before the lagging ones catch up.
• Translate learnings into playbooks. Every initiative that works becomes a repeatable process documented for the next city, the next service line, the next account.
• Represent the Founder's Office externally — in client meetings, partner conversations, and inside the leadership rhythm.

Required

• 0 to 1 years of experience at one or more of: management consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Kearney, EY-Parthenon, Oliver Wyman), investment banking, corporate strategy, or founder/early-employee at a high-growth startup
• Tier 1 engineering college graduate (B.Tech / B.E.)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; comfortable building models and defending numbers
• Bias for action and comfort with ambiguity — you have shipped real outcomes, not just slide decks
• Ability to move fast across functions and surface the right questions in high-pressure moments
• Honest, evidence-first communication — you say 'I don't know' when you don't, and come back with the answer
• Can work 50–60 hours, 6 days a week during intense phases

Nice to have

• MBA (optional, not required — track record matters more)
• Prior exposure to real estate, construction, infrastructure, or industrial B2B
• Direct experience launching a product, service, or geography from zero to meaningful traction
• Familiarity with modern ops stacks (CRM, BI, data tools) and comfort reading SQL or dashboards without hand-holding

Not a fit

• You want a pure strategy / slide-making role. This is strategy + execution, with execution weighted heavier.
• You've only done 1–2 year rotations without owning any outcome through to shipped
• You want a 9–5 structured role. Early-stage reality is messier.

Why join

• Direct access to the founding team — IIT-IIM pedigreed, 10–15 years of operating experience from Flipspaces, Lodha, Kalpataru
• Fast-track to leadership. High performers from the Founder's Office move into function-head roles as new cities and service lines mature.
• Real impact in a $17B industry — you'll help build the first scaled, tech-enabled MEP player in India
• A real product behind the business — the Nirmaan Stack is live in production, not aspirational

About Nirmaan

Nirmaan (Stratos Infra Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) is India's first tech-enabled MEP execution platform. Revenue grew from ₹18.3 Cr to ₹33 Cr in a year, with a ₹25 Cr+ confirmed order book and 74% repeat orders from 30+ unique customers. Clients include Decathlon, Siemens, Grant Thornton, Cushman & Wakefield, Hexaware, and 30+ others. We operate across 20+ cities. Our mission is to rebuild India's $17B MEP industry around software.