Founder's Office - Strategy & AI

Dezerv

Reports to: Sandeep Jethwani, Co-Founder | Bengaluru - On-site | Experience: 2-4 years The Mandate

You will work directly with Sandeep on strategy and AI owning problems end-to-end yourself, not coordinating them across a team. This role requires you to think and talk in Dezerv's actual business language: AUM growth and mix, RM productivity and book size, product economics across PMS/AIF, client acquisition cost versus lifetime value, and where Dezerv sits competitively against private banks, boutique PMS providers, and self-directed platforms.

What You'll Own

Strategy

- Market sizing, competitive analysis, and new segment/initiative scoping worked through independently, from a blank page to a clear, defensible recommendation
- Models, decks, and dashboards for board and investor and providing key business insights in conversations

AI

- Internal AI tools that improve how business teams work, from prototype through to real adoption
- The institutional-memory systems the business already relies on for portfolio review and rebalancing
- Identifying where AI can meaningfully cut manual effort across RM/ops workflows and building the fix directly, not writing a spec for someone else to build

You Know Who You Are

- You can hold a real conversation about how a wealth management business makes money AUM, fee models, PMS vs. AIF vs. mutual fund distribution economics




- You go to the data first you're not comfortable with a hypothesis you can't test or a number you can't defend
- You have real, hands-on AI-building experience something you've actually shipped
- You move across altitude easily - building a model or debugging a workflow in the morning, presenting a sharp recommendation in the afternoon

What We're Looking For

- 2-4 years of experience, with a clear, specific example of a problem you owned end-to-end
- Strong quantitative and analytical ability comfortable building a financial model, not just narrating one someone else built
- Genuine hands-on AI-building experience a real tool, workflow, or prototype you've shipped
- A personal interest in markets and investing is a real plus
- Comfort operating with minimal structure you can turn an ambiguous problem into a plan yourself
- Startup or high-ambiguity environment experience preferred, fintech or wealth-tech familiarity is a solid plus

Why This Role Matters

This is a rare seat directly next to a founder, with real exposure to how strategic and AI decisions actually get made at Dezerv not through a deck reviewed by committee, but through work you do and ship yourself. For someone early in their career who wants outsized ownership, and to build genuinely AI-native habits inside a business that's betting on AI as a core operating advantage, this is a hard role to match elsewhere.

📌 Founder's Office - Strategy & AI (Bengaluru)
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📍 Bengaluru