Inc42 is India s #1 startup media intelligence platform that informs, educates and empowers startup business leaders through its incisive reporting, insightful reports, curated Events Conferences communities, and industry-leading executive courses programs.

Since launching in January 2015 and having risen to become the authoritative voice on India s startup economy, weve moved markets, gotten the early scoop on billions of dollars of transactions, and told you whats happening deep inside some of the fastest-growing startups industries alike.

Our stories have been followed by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, TechCrunch, and other major outlets hundreds of times. We also track over 10,000+ startups and provide market research and intelligence through our in-depth research reports, and we organise some of the most sought-after conferences and Events for startup business leaders across India.

The Inc42 Impact

- Inc42 stories reach over 50 Mn+ people monthly
- Published more than 55,000 stories
- Successfully conducted 125+ events
- Launched 100+ research reports
- Receives 500+ startup applications monthly
- Worked with 350+ brands

Griffin is a private, invitation-only club that unites India s top tech founders through curated experiences, strategic learning, and peer-driven growth. Designed for India s unicorn and soonicorn founders - building at scale, Griffin offers a trusted space where founders don t just network-they forge deep, meaningful relationships, share unfiltered insights, and collaborate to shape India s next chapter of innovation.

From intimate salons and high-trust retreats to access to capital and exclusive opportunities, Griffin offers a curated path to clarity, collaboration, and personal growth. More than a community, it s the inner circle powering the next wave of industry-shaping leaders.

Job Overview

- At Griffin, communication is not content creation - it is trust-building at the highest level.
- As the Communication Lead, Griffin Club, you will own the voice, narrative, and communication engine of one of India s most exclusive founder collectives. This role sits at the intersection of brand, founder relationships, government engagement, member communication, event communication, and institutional storytelling.
- You will work closely with the Founder s Office and Griffin leadership to ensure that every message going out of Griffin - whether to a unicorn founder, a minister s office, a public-market leader, a global institution, a member, a partner, or an internal team - feels sharp, thoughtful, premium, and worthy of the Griffin room.
- This is not a conventional communications role. You are not just writing posts, invites, emails, or updates. You are helping shape how India s most consequential founders are spoken to, how Griffin is perceived, and how high-trust relationships are built through language, nuance, discretion, and speed.
- This role is built for someone with exceptional writing ability, strong judgment, high ownership, and a deep bias for action.

Your Impact In This Role

- Shape Griffin s Voice: Define and maintain the communication tone for Griffin across founder outreach, member updates, event invites, government notes, institutional communication, and brand narratives.
- Work With India s Top Founders: Write and manage communication for a private room of unicorn, soonicorn, IPO-bound, and listed company founders.
- Drive High-Stakes Outreach: Support communication with founders, investors, government offices, embassies, public-market leaders, institutions, and strategic partners.
- Build Founder-First Narratives: Translate Griffin s work into crisp, sharp, emotionally intelligent communication that feels premium, private, and high-signal.
- Power Griffin Events Experiences: Own communication before, during, and after Griffin Salons, Retreats, IPO Dialogues, international delegations, private dinners, and institutional engagements.
- Create Speed With Quality: Build systems, templates, message banks, briefing notes, follow-ups, and communication processes that help Griffin move faster without losing nuance.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Griffin Brand Communication

- Own Griffin s written voice across all key external and internal touchpoints.
- Build and maintain Griffin s communication principles, tone guidelines, messaging banks, and standard templates.
- Draft sharp and premium communication for Griffin announcements, member introductions, founder stories, event positioning, post-event notes, and institutional narratives.
- Ensure all Griffin communication feels discreet, founder-first, high-trust, and never mass-market or sales-led.
- Work closely with the design and events teams to ensure that visual communication and written communication feel aligned.
- Support website copy, brochure copy, event collateral, invite text, membership communication, and presentation narratives.

2. Founder Outreach Prospect Communication

- Draft founder outreach messages, warm introductions, follow-ups, membership notes, and invite communication.




- Personalise communication for high-value founders depending on their company stage, sector, public profile, and relationship context.
- Support communication for new member onboarding, application follow-ups, renewal conversations, and membership value communication.
- Create crisp founder briefs and context notes before important calls or meetings.
- Ensure founder-facing communication is thoughtful, respectful, direct, and never generic.
- Maintain a bank of high-quality outreach formats for different founder segments - listed founders, IPO-bound founders, unicorn founders, exited founders, global founders, and ecosystem leaders.

3. Member Communication

- Own regular member-facing communication across WhatsApp, email, event invites, updates, reminders, thank-you notes, and post-event follow-ups.
- Draft new member introductions for the Griffin WhatsApp group in a sharp, credible, and premium format.
- Write birthday notes, milestone notes, congratulatory messages, founder achievements, IPO updates, funding updates, and other member moments.
- Ensure every member touchpoint feels personal, considered, and aligned with the stature of the room.
- Work with the team to maintain updated member profiles, founder context, communication history, and relationship notes.
- Support renewal communication by helping articulate value delivered to members over the year.

4. Event Communication

- Own communication for Griffin Retreats, Salons, IPO Dialogues, private dinners, institutional rooms, international delegations, and closed-door founder gatherings.
- Draft event save-the-dates, invitations, agenda notes, speaker invites, moderator briefs, attendee notes, reminders, and post-event thank-you messages.
- Create high-quality communication for speakers, founders, partners, government offices, institutional guests, and internal teams.
- Work closely with the events and operations teams to ensure communication is timely, accurate, and aligned with event flow.
- Prepare pre-event briefing notes for founders, moderators, speakers, and VIP guests.
- Capture post-event highlights and convert them into founder-safe summaries, internal notes, and premium archival material.

5. Government, Institutional Strategic Communication

- Draft communication for government reach-outs, embassy interactions, policy stakeholders, regulators, public-market institutions, exchanges, global institutions, and strategic partners.
- Support Griffin leadership with high-stakes emails, formal letters, meeting notes, briefing documents, and thank-you communication.
- Write in a tone that is diplomatic, polished, respectful, and appropriate for senior stakeholders.
- Help position Griffin as a credible soft-power platform for India s leading technology founders.
- Maintain communication quality for institutional engagements in India and abroad.
- Ensure sensitive communication is handled with discretion, context, and maturity.

6. Content Systems, Documentation Communication Infrastructure

- Build Griffin s internal communication repository - message banks, invite templates, founder introduction formats, thank-you notes, government note formats, event copy formats, and briefing structures.
- Document communication learnings after major events and outreach campaigns.
- Maintain a communication tracker for important outreach, pending replies, follow-ups, and next steps.
- Create repeatable systems so that high-quality communication does not depend only on last-minute drafting.
- Use AI tools intelligently to improve speed, research, first drafts, summaries, and versioning - while ensuring all final communication has human judgment and Griffin-level taste.
- Bring structure to ambiguity and convert scattered context into clear, usable communication.

7. Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Work closely with the Founder s Office, events team, design team, partnerships team, finance team, and leadership team.
- Convert inputs from different stakeholders into explicit, sharp, action-ready communication.
- Push for clarity wherever needed - audience, objective, tone, timing, CTA, and follow-up.
- Ensure communication is not created in isolation but supports Griffin s broader goals across acquisition, retention, experience, access, partnerships, and brand.
- Be proactive in identifying communication gaps before they become execution gaps.

What Sets You Apart

- Exceptional Writing Ability: You can write with clarity, elegance, sharpness, and restraint. You know the difference between premium communication and verbose communication.
- Bias For Action: You do not wait endlessly for perfect inputs. You move fast, create strong first drafts, ask the right questions, and push things to closure.




- Founder-First Sensibility: You understand how to speak to senior founders without sounding transactional, salesy, casual, or overawed.
- Diplomatic Judgment: You know how to write to senior government officials, investors, institutions, and public figures with maturity and nuance.
- High Ownership: You take complete responsibility for communication outcomes - from first draft to final send-out to follow-up.
- Strategic Thinking: You do not just write words. You understand the objective behind the message, the relationship context, and the desired outcome.
- Taste Restraint: You know what not to say. You can make communication feel premium, sparse, warm, and intentional.
- Comfort With Ambiguity: You can work with incomplete context and still create structure, direction, and quality output.
- Ecosystem Fluency: You understand, or are deeply curious about, India s startup, venture capital, public markets, policy, and founder ecosystem.
- High EQ Discretion: You can handle sensitive conversations, private founder information, and high-trust relationships with maturity.
- Process Orientation: You can build templates, systems, trackers, and documentation so that communication improves over time.
- Curiosity-Led Mindset: You like understanding people, companies, sectors, public profiles, business journeys, and the context behind relationships.

Professional Traits

- 3-4 years of experience in communications, founder s office, public relations, corporate communications, policy communication, investor relations, journalism, or ecosystem-facing roles.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to write across formats - WhatsApp messages, emails, formal letters, event invites, briefing notes, speaker invites, founder introductions, post-event notes, and internal documents.
- Prior experience working with founders, CXOs, investors, government stakeholders, media houses, public institutions, premium communities, or high-trust networks is preferred.
- Strong understanding of India s startup ecosystem, founder journeys, public markets, venture capital, policy, and technology sectors is a strong advantage.
- Ability to synthesise scattered inputs into crisp, high-quality communication.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and comfort working with senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment where priorities can shift quickly.
- Strong command over tone - warm when needed, formal when needed, sharp when needed, and diplomatic when needed.
- Comfort using AI tools for drafting, research, summarisation, versioning, and communication workflows.
- High attention to detail, including names, designations, dates, context, tone, grammar, formatting, and follow-up discipline.
- Must have a strong bias for action and the ability to move things forward without repeated reminders.

What Good Looks Like

Success in this role means:

- Founder outreach goes out on time, with the right tone and context.
- Member communication feels personal, premium, and never generic.
- Griffin event communication is sharp, timely, and well-structured.
- Government and institutional communication feels mature, respectful, and credible.
- The team has ready-to-use templates, message banks, and communication systems.
- Important follow-ups do not get missed.
- Griffin s voice becomes sharper, more consistent, and more distinctive over time.
- Communication helps strengthen trust, increase founder participation, support retention, and elevate Griffin s overall brand.brand.
- Who This Role Is Not For
- This role may not be the right fit if:
- You need very detailed instructions before starting any draft.
- You write long when the situation requires sharpness.
- You struggle to understand nuance, hierarchy, or relationship context.
- You are comfortable with generic communication.
- You wait for others to chase you before moving things forward.
- You cannot handle multiple workstreams at once.
- You do not enjoy operating close to founders, senior stakeholders, and high-expectation environments.

Reporting

The role will work closely with the Founder s Office and Griffin leadership team.

Role Summary

Griffin operates in rooms where trust, timing, language, and discretion matter deeply.

The Communication Lead will help shape how India s top founders experience Griffin - before an event, during a conversation, after a meeting, at the time of renewal, and in every important moment in between.

This role is for someone who wants to build the communication engine of a serious founder institution - not by shouting louder, but by writing sharper, thinking deeper, and moving faster.

Required Skills

Speaker Engagement Client Handling Ownership and Accountability Communication community building Collaboration stakeholder management Client Relationship Management

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