Founder & Business head [12 / 10 / 2025]

We are seeking to hire a Business Leader (Designation - Founder & Business Head) to lead one of the Investee companies.

The Investee co is a company with a game-changing Autonomous Commercial Floor Surface Robot Cleaner designed to revolutionize In-house maintenance, using the latest AI technology. This innovation turns traditional cleaning methods into a fully autonomous system, optimizing manual labour while ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness and safety. This will empower building owners and facility managers with a more efficient, reliable, and safe way to maintain their properties.

The primary mission of the Founder & Business Head will be to build Asset valuation of the company. To do this, the Founder & Business Head is expected to lead drive the key aspects of the business – Strategy, Product, Funding, GTM, Finance, Client Experience & People. A Founder & Business Head plays a vital role in the inception and growth the Investee Company. Here are the core responsibilities that define this role :

• Strategic Planning : Develop the company’s vision, mission, and long-term strategies & align Internal stake holders with the same.
• Product / Tech Roadmap Development : Lay out the mid & long-term road map for product / technology across different markets & use-case applications, basis business potential.
• Fundraising : Engage with potential investors, pitch the business idea, and secure necessary funding.
• Go-To-Market : Evolve a strong GTM strategy to meet the Top line objectives of the company.
• Client Experience : Evolve a world-class product & service experience to the Clients, with SLAs & SOPs and User Interfaces and Tools to deliver a cutting-edge performance.
• Team Building : Recruit, hire, and manage a team that aligns with the company’s culture and objectives.
• Operational Oversight : Oversee daily operations to ensure the business runs smoothly and efficiently.
• Industry Networking : Build relationships with industry partners, mentors, and other stakeholders.
• Strong Governance - Establish efficient business practices & processes to ensure strong governance and compliance.

Required Skills and Qualifications

1. Essential Skills

2. Preferred Qualifications

=10 years of minimum experience in industry (Preferably Robotics / Industrial automation)

3. Personal Attributes

Work Location : Bangalore (first preference), Mumbai, Delhi-NCR.

Ps note – Candidate based out of Mumbai & Delhi-NCR will be required to spend frequent On-site time in Bangalore till Commercial Launch (a travel-meeting cadence will be put in place for Non-Bangalore based candidate).

FIR (Founder in Residence) Program

FIR program comprises of 3 phases as below -

a) Fitment phase – Period of 3 months Probationary period focused on cultural fitment, business alignment & strategic orientation

b) Sprint phase – Period of 6 months Immersion period with key priorities being – Successful commercial launch, Funding & building team.

c) Build phase Will involve Pan-India expansion of the foot print & also in select key global markets and Funding acceleration towards Series stage.

What is in it for the Founder & Business head?

A rare & unique opportunity to independently build and lead a potential firm in Robotics Ai with a Global outreach. In doing so, the candidate can look towards establishing him / her as the “Global face of the company”.

Nature of remuneration will be largely “entrepreneurial” and directly proportional to the Business performance and valuation growth. Candidate will own Significant Equity share, Performance Linked Incentives, in addition to a base fixed stipend.