Founders’ Staff / Startup BizOps

Founders Staff Coreworks

Bengaluru / San Francisco Bay Area (Hybrid) | Full-time | Equity + Competitive Pay

Coreworks is building an AI-native way to turn raw company data spreadsheets, systems, and messy inputs into finished outputs: models, reports, and decks that people actually use.

We believe the way teams build models, reports, and decks is about to change fundamentally and were early in defining that category.

This role is Founders Staff.

Not Chief of Staff. Not Associate. Not internal ops.

Its a founder-caliber generalist role for someone who wants to help build Coreworks itself.

Youll work directly with the founders on the highest-leverage problems across product, growth, strategy, and operations with real ownership and decision-making responsibility.

What Youll Do

• Partner directly with the founders on company-defining initiatives
• Own end-to-end outcomes from problem framing to execution
• Shape our go-to-market motion: positioning, ICPs, pricing, early distribution
• Drive cross-functional projects across product, growth, analytics, and ops
• Turn ambiguity into structure and execute independently
• Analyze customer workflows and usage to inform product and GTM decisions
• Build dashboards, narratives, and internal playbooks that founders actually use

What Success Looks Like (First 90180 Days)

• Own and ship 23 high-impact initiatives that materially move the company
• Help launch an early GTM or customer workflow motion
• Build at least one core operating or growth dashboard
• Take full ownership of one critical company initiative end-to-end

Who You Are

• High-agency generalist with strong analytical and business instincts
• Background in consulting, VC, early-stage startups, or as a founder
• MBA or equivalent experience (judgment > pedigree)
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration
• Founder mentality: ownership, speed, accountability
• Clear, structured communicator
• Genuinely excited about AI products and real-world workflows

Strong Plus

• Ex-consulting (McKinsey, Bain, BCG) with startup curiosity
• Ex-VC / growth equity looking to build, not evaluate
• Former founder or early startup operator
• Experience with GTM, analytics, or financial modeling
• Familiarity with spreadsheet-heavy workflows

What This Role Is and Isnt

• Youll sit in founder discussions with full context
• Youll be trusted to make decisions independently
• This is not a scheduling, admin, or internal communications role

Why This Role at Coreworks

• Help shape the company at a foundational stage
• Work close to real decisions, not side projects
• See how AI products are actually built and scaled
• Meaningful equity tied directly to impact
• A path to owning a major function or becoming a long-term founder-level operator

If you like fast feedback, direct conversations, and high ownership, youll thrive here.

Apply with a short note on why Coreworks and the hardest thing youve built or achieved (not academics) end-to-end. What made it hard, and what would you do differently?