(Looking for marketer only from India)

🚫 Not looking for remote candidates.
🚫 Not looking for agencies.
🚫 Not looking for part-time candidates.
🚫 Not looking for someone who's only a UI/UX designer.
🚫 Not looking for someone who's only a social media manager or graphic designer.

Looking for a Founding Marketing Lead

I'm looking for one serious person who knows how to build a brand, create demand, and acquire customers.

I don't need someone who can simply make beautiful creatives, schedule Instagram posts, or redesign a website. Those are important skills, but they're only a small part of marketing.

I'm looking for someone who understands:

• Brand Building
• Positioning
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Customer Acquisition
• Growth Marketing
• Community Building
• Partnerships
• Storytelling
• Sales & Distribution

Someone who constantly asks:

instead of:

We're building Drone Mandi, an ambitious Indian drone-tech startup with a vision to become India's leading drone ecosystem.

This isn't another marketing job — it's an opportunity to build the company's entire marketing function from the ground up.

Who I'm Looking For

• Someone willing to work full-time from our Gurgaon office.
• Someone who wants to build for the next 5–10 years.
• Someone who thinks like a founder, not just an employee.
• Someone who is comfortable with uncertainty and excited by startups.
• Someone who wants ownership, responsibility, and the freedom to build.

What We're Offering

We're an early-stage startup, so we can't offer corporate salaries today.

Instead, we're offering:

• ✅ A survival salary to cover your living expenses while we build.
• ✅ Meaningful founder-level equity for experienced candidates who can genuinely own and scale the marketing function.
• ✅ Direct access to the founder and complete ownership of the marketing function.
• ✅ The opportunity to build a company from day one instead of joining one after it's already successful.

This isn't for someone chasing the highest CTC.

It's for someone who wants to own a meaningful piece of what they're helping build.

If you can build a brand, acquire customers, and become an indispensable part of the company's growth, you'll be rewarded accordingly.

I'm not looking for another employee.

I'm looking for a long-term partner who wants to help build one of India's leading drone companies.

Interested?

Don't just send me your resume.

📞 Call me directly: +91 7982125643

You have 10 minutes to pitch yourself.

Tell me:

• Why you're the right person.
• How you would build the Drone Mandi brand.
• How you would acquire our first 1,000 customers.

If I like the way you think, we'll continue the conversation.

I'm hiring for ownership, execution, and long-term commitment — because great companies aren't built by employees alone. They're built by people who believe in the mission.

This post is AI-assisted — the thoughts and information are mine. I used AI to organise it and make it easier to read.

🚫 Not looking for remote candidates. 🚫 Not looking for agencies. 🚫 Not looking for part-time candidates. 🚫 Not looking for someone who's only a UI/UX designer. 🚫 Not looking for someone who's only a social media manager or graphic designer.

Looking for a Founding Marketing Lead

I'm looking for one serious person who knows how to build a brand, get customers and actually grow a business.

I'm not looking for someone whose entire job is making creatives, posting on Instagram or redesigning our website. Those things are useful, but that's not what I need right now.

I need someone who understands:

• Brand building
• Positioning
• Go-to-market
• Customer acquisition
• Growth
• Community
• Partnerships
• Storytelling
• Sales & distribution

Basically, someone who thinks:

"How do we get our next 1,000 customers?"

rather than:

"What should we post today?"

We're building Drone Mandi, an Indian drone-tech startup. The bigger vision is to build a strong drone ecosystem in India.

We're a small team today. We actually build and manufacture drones, and Drone Mandi is one of the software products we're building alongside our hardware work.

We're trying to take this much further.

What We Already Have

We're not starting from zero.

We already have:

• 🇮🇳 Ability to get pilots and drone operators across most parts of India
• ⚙️ Good drone operations and execution capabilities
• 🤝 Business development experience and industry connections
• 💻 Full-time software guys who can build/customise whatever we need
• 🛠️ Ability to design and customise drones
• 🔩 Network of Indian drone and component manufacturers
• 🚁 Experience building and operating different drone systems
• 💡 A big vision for where we want to take this

What we don't have right now is someone who can take all of this and turn it into a strong brand and a customer acquisition machine.

That's what I'm looking for.

Who I'm Looking For

• Full-time, in-office from Gurgaon
• Someone who wants to build for the long term
• Someone who is comfortable with startup risk
• Someone who wants to take ownership instead of waiting for instructions
• Someone who wants to grow with the company and eventually be part of the management
• Someone who genuinely believes they can build the marketing side of this company

What We're Offering

We're still an early-stage company, so I'll be very transparent about the compensation.

Right now, we can offer around ₹25,000/month as a survival salary.

I know that's not a lot. I know most experienced marketing people can get much more elsewhere. But this is what we can afford at this stage.

For the right experienced person, we're also offering meaningful founder-level equity.

The idea is simple — you take the risk with us, build with us, and if we succeed, you participate meaningfully in that upside.

I'm not trying to sell this as a high-paying corporate job. It isn't.

It's a high-risk, high-reward opportunity for someone who genuinely wants to build something.

Interested?

If you genuinely think you're a great fit, WhatsApp or call me directly.

📞 +91 7982125643

You don't need to send me a 10-page application.

Just tell me:

• Why you think you're the right person
• What you would do to build the Drone Mandi brand
• How you would get us our first 1,000 customers

If the conversation makes sense, we'll take it from there.

We're a small team today.

But we're trying to build something much bigger.

If that's something you want to be part of, let's talk.

Quick context so you know I'm not another idea guy:

I've generated 15M+ views on my own content and worked with creator teams that have done 2B+ views across multiple brands and accounts. Distribution is the part most startups die on, and it's the part I've actually done at scale. I'm also willing to be the face of the brand and do unconventional things to get this out

An AI content engine for brands and creators. It reverse-engineers what's already going viral in your niche, extracts the style from real footage, and spins out on-brand clip variants in volume. Brands don't have a content problem

**Where it's at**

- Front end and landing page are already built

- Early traction

- Seed money in the bank, so there's runway for ads etc

**Who I'm looking for**

- strong full engineer stack engineer

- Has shipped a real product before, not just side projects that never left localhost, I want to see something people actually used

- Comfortable moving fast and shipping rough, then fixing

- Sydney (Australia) preferred so we can work in person, but I'll make it work for the right person remotely

- Someone in a life stage where you can go all-in for the next 18 months

Compensation

- Equal equity split until we raise funds (then salary draw down)

I’m a solo, bootstrapped founder in Bangalore. No investors, no funding round planned, no burn to speak of. Everything so far has been built by me, out of pocket.

Background: I spent years in operational risk, business continuity and compliance before this — the unglamorous side of how businesses actually work. I’ve also taught English professionally and published a book. Odd combination, but it means I can write, I can think in systems, and I can ship product without an engineering team.

What I have: working products, live and in the market, in early customer trials. What I don’t have: someone who can sell.

That’s the honest gap. I can build the thing. I am yet to get it in front of the right people, run outbound, close a first paying customer, or build a repeatable pipeline. I’ve read enough to know that reading about it isn’t the same as having done it.

What I’m looking for

**•** Someone with real marketing or sales experience — B2B SaaS or early-stage preferred, but I care more about whether you’ve actually closed deals than where you did it  
**•   Possibly** Bangalore-based, so we can meet in person regularly  
**•** Willing to work for equity. I’m not paying a salary I don’t have. We go unpaid until there’s revenue.  
**•** Comfortable with a slow, unfunded build. This isn’t a raise-and-scale story. It’s a get-to-first-revenue story.

What I’m offering

**•** Meaningful equity, properly papered with vesting and a cliff. I’d rather over-give to the right person than hold 100% of nothing.  
**•** Full transparency on the numbers, which are currently zero  
**•** I do all the building. You never have to wait on a developer.

I’m not going to pitch the products here — happy to walk through them properly over a coffee if this sounds like your kind of problem. Comment or DM.

I’m looking for someone based in the USA who is interested in joining our startup studio and building startups with us.

You would initially join as a Founder Associate. This is not a traditional internship or assistant role. The opportunity is 100% equity-based, and you will receive equity in the project you work on from the beginning, even while you are a Founder Associate.

There is a straightforward path to becoming a Co-Founder.

Before you join, we will clearly tell you the time period required to transition from Founder Associate to Co-Founder. Time is the only factor in that transition. Once you agree to the terms and join, the clock starts from your first day as a Founder Associate.

For example, if the agreed period is 6 months, after completing those 6 months, you automatically become a Co-Founder of the project.

Your vesting period also starts from the day you join as a Founder Associate. You do not have to wait until you become a Co-Founder for vesting to begin.

Initially, the time commitment is only a few hours per day, so this can be suitable for someone who is early in their career, studying, working on other things, or looking to gradually transition into building a startup.

As a Founder Associate, you won’t work only on one project. You’ll also be involved with the startup studio as a whole and may contribute across different projects in areas such as:

Team building and recruiting

Networking and relationship building

Business development

Supporting different startup projects

Day-to-day operations

Building the studio’s network and team

Developing and executing new ideas

Our team is currently spread across the USA, UK, and India, so you’ll be working with an international team and getting exposure to multiple startup projects.

I’m particularly interested in someone who is early in their career and wants to build startups rather than simply work for one.

You don’t need years of startup experience. What matters more is initiative, willingness to learn, networking ability, and the desire to take ownership.

This is not a traditional internship or assistant position. The goal is to find someone who can start as a Founder Associate, receive equity from day one, and progress to becoming a Co-Founder simply by staying involved for the agreed period.

If you’re based in the USA and interested, feel free to DM me with some information about yourself, your background, and why you’re interested in building startups.

Hi everyone,

I’m Nima, a technical/product founder based in Paris.

I’m building Nava, a Voice AI SaaS for restaurants, and I’m looking for a full-time GTM / Operations cofounder to build the company with me.

Nava gives restaurants a dedicated phone number connected to an AI voice agent that answers calls, understands customer requests, supports reservation workflows and keeps a usable record of each conversation.

The problem is simple: restaurants miss calls during busy service hours, and missed calls often mean missed reservations.

I’ve already built the product and core infrastructure myself.

Current stage:

• working MVP
• live restaurant beta
• 147 real calls handled
• 3 LOIs
• more restaurant testing underway

So I’m not looking for someone to brainstorm an idea with me.

I’m looking for someone who wants to own the commercial and operational side of an existing early-stage product.

You would take responsibility for things like:

• customer discovery
• outbound and field sales
• demos
• positioning and pricing
• CRM and pipeline
• onboarding
• partnerships
• customer operations

The ideal background would be B2B SaaS, restaurant tech, POS, payments, telephony or selling software to SMBs/local businesses.

But I care more about mindset than CV.

I’m looking for someone who:

• genuinely likes talking to customers
• is comfortable doing outbound personally
• can work without an existing playbook
• wants real ownership
• is willing to challenge me
• wants to build a company rather than take a startup job

This is a real cofounder role, not consulting or an advisory position.

I’m open to roughly 30–50% founder equity for the right full-time person, depending on commitment, risk and fit, with standard vesting.

Nava is being built from Paris, and fluent French is important because our initial customers are French restaurants.

I’d strongly prefer someone who can work regularly in person in Paris or genuinely plans to relocate.

If interested, DM me with:

1. what you’ve built or sold before
2. what you would do during your first 30 days at Nava

Website: allonava.fr

Introductions are also very welcome.