Profile: Business Assistant to the Founder

About Us:Morning Star BrandCom is a communications advisory firm specializing in corporate reputation, crisis preparedness, and strategic media relations. We partner with businesses that take their reputation seriously — from legacy institutions to high-growth challengers — helping them communicate clearly, credibly, and consistently in a world of constant scrutiny.

What This Role Involves:The Business Assistant at Morning Star Brandcom is not just a coordinator but a strategic shadow to the Founder. Your primary mission is to protect the Founder’s time and mental bandwidth by eliminating chaos, streamlining communication, and ensuring that no decision or task "slips through the cracks". You will act as the bridge between the Founder’s vision and the team’s execution.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Coordination & Shadowing

- Accompany the Founder to critical physical and virtual meetings. Maintain structured notes and immediately translate outcomes into traceable tasks with clear owners and timelines.
- Ensure zero "dropped balls" by maintaining a live status tracker of all Founder instructions and cross-functional follow-ups.
- Act as the primary liaison between the Founder and PR Leads, Writers, Ops, and Finance to ensure project closures.

2. Bandwidth Protection & Communication

- Protect the Founder’s cognitive bandwidth by eliminating unnecessary inflow and managing "access hygiene".
- Triage emails and calls into priority tiers; reduce "inbox noise" by providing structured, actionable summaries rather than raw data.
- Draft high-level business correspondence and key messages on behalf of the Founder.

3. Precision Scheduling & Operations

- Manage precise scheduling and reshuffling to ensure no clashes, last-minute chaos, or surprise overruns.




- Ensure the Founder shows up fully prepared for every meeting by providing context and pre-read materials in advance.
- Coordinate with CAs, lawyers, and vendors to ensure zero slippage on licenses, paperwork, and compliance items.

4. Process Hygiene

- Ensure all company templates, trackers, and formats are standardized and updated.
- Maintain the "Founder’s Office" repository of approvals, master lists, and sensitive documentation.

5. Internal Alignment & Cross-Function Follow Through

- Coordinate with PR Leads/ Writers/Ops/ Finance on founder assigned tasks and ensure clousers.
- Maintain a live status tracker of all founder instructions and follow-ups.
- Ensure Internal teams receive Founder communication with clarity, context, and timelines.

Compulsory Requirements

- Exceptional verbal and written English with a flair for corporate diplomacy.
- Highly presentable and professional, capable of representing the Founder in high-stakes client meetings.
- A natural ability to organize chaos into structured checklists and "closed-loop" systems.
- High accountability with a commitment to acknowledging tasks within SLA hours.
- No "I forgot" or "it slipped" moments; everything must be close-looped.
- Successful reduction of Founder’s "noise" and repetitive inflow.
- Adherence to working hour SLAs, with occasional priority responses on weekends only for rare business items.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and AI tools like Claude, Canva and Sigma.
- Absolute ability to handle confidential and sensitive business information
- Proficiently presentable and professional.
- Stickler for details.

Pay: ₹20,000.00 - ₹35,000.00 per month

Perks:

- Paid sick time
- Paid time off

Work Location: In person

📌 Founder's Office (India)
🏢 Morning Star BrandCom
📍 India