Strategic Associate — Founder’s Office

Velantara is a venture platform building and developing businesses across sectors. We are looking for a Strategic Associate to work directly with the Founder across the organisation’s day-to-day priorities, ventures and execution.

Velantara has a diversified venture portfolio spanning multiple industries and sectors, with each venture developed around its own market, operating model and opportunity. This role involves working across varied business environments rather than being confined to a single industry or function.

This is a cross-functional role for someone who can research, organise, communicate, coordinate and follow through, while remaining open to learning and taking on current areas of responsibility.

Responsibilities

- Support the Founder with day-to-day priorities, projects, planning and follow-ups.

• Conduct research across businesses, markets, industries, opportunities and unfamiliar subjects.

- Prepare explicit reports, briefs, presentations, comparisons and decision-support material.
- Maintain Notion, reports, documents, trackers and internal information in an organised manner.
- Manage follow-ups independently across calls, email, meetings, messaging and other working channels.
- Source relevant information, resources, vendors, contacts and opportunities.
- Support venture development, strategy, operations, business development and ongoing organisational initiatives.
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders and ensure actions are followed through.
- Travel when required for meetings, research, sourcing, coordination or execution.
- Identify gaps, contribute ideas and suggest practical improvements to how work is carried out.

Requirements

• Robust willingness to learn and work across unfamiliar subjects and industries.

- Ability to conduct independent research and convert information into useful outputs.




- Strong organisational skills with attention to documentation, reporting and follow-through.

• Comfortable using Notion, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace and similar productivity tools, with the ability to learn new platforms quickly.

- Clear, professional communication and disciplined reporting.

• Punctual, dependable and consistent with commitments.

- Comfortable working independently while maintaining alignment with the Founder.
- Willingness to travel when required.

• Ability to exercise independent judgement , contribute ideas and approach problems constructively.

- Resourceful approach to finding information, people, tools and practical solutions.

Prior experience is useful, but demonstrated capability, learning ability and reliability are equally important.

Working with Velantara -

The role provides practical exposure to venture development and organisational execution across strategy, growth, product, operations, commercial development, research and business development.

The scope of responsibility will develop with demonstrated capability, judgement and ownership. The expectation is not simply to complete assigned tasks, but to understand the objective, take responsibility for the work and ensure it moves forward.

The Associate will report directly to the Founder and work closely on ongoing organisational priorities.

Role Details

Position: Strategic Associate — Founder’s Office

Company: Velantara

Employment Type: Full time

Work Model: Hybrid

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Reporting To: Founder, Velantara

Application

Please submit your CV or LinkedIn profile and briefly answer:

“Describe something you independently learned, researched, built or solved. What was your approach and what was the outcome?”

- We are interested in understanding how you think, learn, organise information and execute , alongside your formal experience.

📌 Strategic Associate — Founder’s Office (Hyderabad)
🏢 VELANTARA
📍 Hyderabad