About FocusRealm

FocusRealm is a B2B SaaS platform built to solve one of Indian hospitality's most persistent operating problems: keeping standard operating procedures (SOPs) consistent and staff training effective across properties, shifts, and languages. We help hotels, resorts, and hospitality groups digitize their SOPs and deliver structured, trackable training to frontline and management staff — replacing binders, tribal knowledge, and one-off onboarding sessions with a system that scales.

We're an early-stage, founder-led, bootstrapped company building ahead of a public launch. Rather than leading with funding announcements or marquee logos, our strategy is to earn credibility the hard way — through demonstrated industry expertise, sharp content, and real relationships across the hospitality ecosystem — before we ask the market to pay attention to our product. That means the people who join us early get unusually close to how a company actually gets built, not just how it's marketed after the fact.

About the Role The Founder's Office Intern works at the centre of FocusRealm's early-stage operations — not attached to a single function, but embedded directly with the founders across strategy, research, partnerships, and execution. This is a generalist, high-trust role for someone who wants to understand how a B2B SaaS company is actually built from the inside: how decisions get made, how priorities get sequenced, and how a small team turns ambiguous problems into shipped work.

You'll move between projects rather than owning a single fixed lane — one week that might mean structuring a competitive analysis, the next it might mean drafting a partnership brief or tightening an internal process. What stays constant is the level of ownership: you'll be trusted to take a problem, work it through with minimal hand-holding, and bring back something usable.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Founder Support

- Work directly with the founders on strategic initiatives — market entry sequencing, positioning decisions,



and go-to-market planning.
- Prepare briefs, decks, and structured summaries for investor conversations, partnership discussions, and internal strategy reviews.
- Track and synthesize developments in the HR-tech, LMS, and hospitality-operations landscape that are relevant to FocusRealm's direction.

Research & Analysis

- Conduct competitive and market research to sharpen FocusRealm's positioning and identify white space.
- Build and maintain structured trackers (Excel/Sheets) for outreach, partnerships, hiring, or other pipelines as needed.
- Verify and stress-test data points and claims before they're used externally, in line with FocusRealm's verification-first approach to research.

Cross-Functional Project Ownership

- Take end-to-end ownership of discrete projects spanning marketing, PR/media outreach, and partnerships as assigned by the founders.
- Coordinate with other interns and early contributors to keep messaging and priorities consistent across workstreams.
- Flag risks, blockers, and open questions proactively — this role is built around independent judgment, not step-by-step instructions.

Operations & Process Building

- Provide day-to-day operational support to the founders — scheduling, follow-ups, and documentation of decisions.
- Draft internal memos, SOPs, and process documents that help formalize how FocusRealm operates as it scales past its earliest stage.

Who We're Looking For

Education

- A Master's degree (in progress or completed) is preferred — for example, an MBA or an equivalent postgraduate program.
- Preferred specializations: Economics, Finance, Technology, or Engineering backgrounds.



Candidates from Information Technology or Computer Engineering / Computer Science specializations are not the focus for this particular role.
- Robust academic candidates without a Master's in hand who otherwise meet the bar are welcome to apply and will be considered on merit.

Skills & Attributes

- Sharp, structured analytical thinking — comfortable turning ambiguous problems into clear frameworks and recommendations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to represent the founders' thinking clearly to external stakeholders.
- Confident with Excel/Sheets and PowerPoint/Slides for research, tracking, and presentation work.
- High ownership and self-sufficiency — this role is built for someone who can operate with minimal daily direction, not someone who needs frequent check-ins.
- Genuine interest in B2B SaaS, hospitality technology, or early-stage company building.

What You'll Gain

- Direct, hands-on mentorship from the founding team — not a rotational program, but real proximity to how the company is run.
- Meaningful ownership over strategic and operational work from day one, with visible impact on a real, pre-launch business.
- A front-row seat to early-stage company building: fundraising conversations, partnership structuring, and go-to-market strategy as they happen.
- A certificate of completion and a letter of recommendation on successful completion of the internship.
- For standout performers, the possibility of a longer-term or full-time role as FocusRealm scales.

Engagement Terms This is an unpaid internship for a fixed term of three months. We're upfront about this: in exchange for no stipend, we offer real ownership, direct founder access, and the kind of unfiltered, early-stage exposure that's hard to find in a structured internship elsewhere. This role suits someone motivated by the learning and the resume-defining experience of building something from zero — not primarily by compensation.

📌 Founder's Office Intern (Unpaid) (Mumbai)
🏢 Focus Realm
📍 Mumbai