Job Title: Capstone Coach, India

Location: Gurgaon (India)

Employment Type: Contract (on-site in Gurgaon for 4-months)

About Tetr College of Business

Tetr College of Business is an innovative undergraduate program, designed to cultivate the next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs. With a strong focus on experiential learning, industry immersion, and a future-forward curriculum, we equip students with the skills and mindset needed to thrive in the dynamic global business landscape.

Role Overview The Capstone team works closely with student entrepreneurs as they build, test, and execute ventures in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment. This role is designed for a seasoned professional who can combine strong execution, attention to detail, and empathy to support students through the realities of building.

Term 1 places students inside India’s high-velocity consumer market for their first real venture build. Over sixteen weeks, each team designs, launches, and scales a revenue-generating consumer brand from scratch, under genuine market pressure rather than in a simulation. Demand is proven only by customer action, money changing hands, repeat orders, and conversions in a live marketplace. What a team builds here becomes the foundation it takes global in Dubai the following term.

The Capstone Coach plays a central role in helping student teams move from broad ideas to sharper strategy, stronger execution, and real-world validation. This is a hands-on role for someone who can combine startup judgment, structured mentorship, and high standards to support a portfolio of student ventures through an intensive build cycle.

What you'll do

- Coach an assigned portfolio of student venture teams from opportunity identification to prototype, validation, and final presentation.
- Run regular one-on-one and small-group office hours to support progress, challenge thinking, and unblock execution.
- Help students break down complex startup, business, and brand concepts into practical next steps.




- Guide teams in selecting meaningful industry opportunities and understanding where they can create real value.
- Push teams to validate ideas through behavioral evidence, not just stated interest, and maintain a high bar for proof of demand.
- Mentor teams on customer discovery, brand positioning, product prioritization, venture positioning, and pitch readiness.
- Track the progress of assigned teams with a clear view of milestones, blockers, revenue, and overall trajectory.
- Work closely with faculty, industry advisors, and internal program stakeholders to ensure students receive timely, coherent support.
- Facilitate occasional teaching sessions, reviews, feedback discussions, or structured working sessions during modules and studio sprints.
- Prepare students for key capstone moments, including peer reviews, Demo Day, and the Bazaars
- Maintain academic rigour of the capstone program and grade student submissions.

Who will thrive

- Has experience in startups, venture building, product, growth, strategy, consulting, or founder support.
- Is a strong coach who balances encouragement with rigor and holds teams to a high standard of thinking and execution.
- Communicates clearly and can make abstract ideas practical and actionable for student founders.
- Operates in a structured way and can track multiple teams in parallel without losing depth or context.
- Enjoys working closely with ambitious students in a fast-moving, high-touch environment.
- Brings strong business judgment and can distinguish activity from real progress.
- Has experience mentoring early-stage teams, student founders, or entrepreneurs.
- Is comfortable engaging with AI-enabled venture ideas, customer validation, and early-stage experimentation.

Why join us

- Work at the intersection of entrepreneurship, brand, and marketing in a real world setting.
- Support ambitious student founders as they build evidence-backed ventures in India.
- Collaborate with faculty, industry advisors, and a globally oriented team shaping a different model of business education.
- Play a direct role in helping students turn ideas into sharper products, stronger validation, and better venture outcome.

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