Creative Director

CraftMyPlate is a fast-growing food-tech startup solving how food is ordered for small to mid-sized group gatherings .

Why We're Exciting:

• 📍 Based in Hyderabad
• 🔁 High customer retention and organic growth
• 🚀 Built by IIT/BITS grads and experienced repeat founders
• 🎯 Preparing to raise fund to scale operations and tech infrastructure

We’re strong on operations, backed by real traction, and ready to raise capital to expand across cities — now looking for the right capital strategy partner to lead this next phase.

We’re seeking a high-agency, outcomes-driven professional with proven experience in startup fundraising to own and lead our current round from end to end.

You’ll work directly with the founders to:

• Build and manage the investor pipeline
• Shape and pitch our story
• Lead the entire process — from outreach and meetings to term sheet negotiation and closure

This is a high-impact, high-ownership role ideal for someone who thrives in the pace and ambiguity of early-stage startups.

💼 Key Responsibilities

• 🎯 Fundraising Strategy – Define and execute a structured approach to raise fund from angels, syndicates, micro-VCs, and seed funds
• 🗺️ Investor Pipeline – Identify and manage a list of 100+ qualified investor leads; track progress, follow-ups, and conversions
• 💬 Outreach & Narrative – Refine our positioning, craft customized messages, and drive high-conversion campaigns
• 📊 Collateral Management – Continuously improve our pitch deck, one-pager, FAQ, and maintain an investor-ready data room
• 📞 Meeting & Engagements – Set up and attend investor meetings, lead discussions, handle feedback loops, and ensure timely progress
• 📑 Term Sheet to Closure – Support in evaluating offers, managing diligence, and closing the round
• 🧠 Founders Enablement – Pass on structure, playbooks, and templates to help us internalize the fundraising process

✅ You’re a Strong Fit If You:

• 🔗 Have 2–6 years of experience in VC, IB, startup fundraising, or strategic growth ops
• 📈 Have led or supported fundraising of ₹3–10 Cr+ for an early-stage startup
• 🧠 Possess excellent storytelling, clarity, and persuasion skills
• 🤝 Bring warm connections or access to founder/investor networks
• 🛠️ Are self-driven, organized, and execute with consistency
• ❤️ Are excited by early-stage chaos, deep founder collaboration, and high ownership

📊 What You’ll Drive

• Full ownership of our Seed round
• 100+ investor touchpoints across warm and cold outreach
• Weekly pipeline momentum and conversion tracking
• A repeatable, founder-level fundraising playbook for future rounds

🌟 What’s In It For You?

• Run a mission-critical fundraise for a fast-scaling startup
• Collaborate closely with a strong founding team
• Competitive retainer + success-based payout (cash + ESOP optional)
• Potential for long-term strategic role in capital or IR as we scale

TL;DR version

Who: People passionate about planning and implementing projects & processes, while focusing on users' needs & experiences.

What: Supporting Kraftshala students with their learning journeys by creating delightful and impactful experiences.

Why: If you draw energy and satisfaction by helping people become a better version of themselves and have a knack for problem-solving, this is the role for you.

About us: Kraftshala is on a mission to help a million students launch their careers in marketing, sales, and more. We’ve already helped thousands of students launch their marketing careers in companies like Performics, Sokrati, GroupM, Nykaa, Tata Cliq, Coursera and are looking to add hundreds of thousands more in the coming decade.

Kraftshala is backed by a number of eminent investors including ex-unicorn startup founders and CXOs of global giants. 

Role Description 

As part of the Associate - Program Management profile, you will be responsible for student experience and taking them through an epic journey of growth and discovery! Your goal would be to lead and execute various activities that lead to a gold-standard experience for students. Please read below to know more about the role :

Program Management

• Take charge of the entire learning expedition, ensuring every student achieves their learning goals while enjoying a delightful learning experience.
• Be the friendly face that students turn to first, eagerly solving their questions and fostering positive relationships with them.
• Manage all aspects of Program Management, from arranging online sessions to coordinating evaluations and presentations. You'll get to interact with a diverse range of stakeholders, from senior managers and team leads to brilliant industry experts.
• Monitor each participant's progress closely, using program trackers to craft personalized support.

Process Optimization

While working with a large set of students, student experience becomes a function of the processes designed to deliver it and so, you’ll be:

• Discovering ways to improve efficiency in our daily processes in order to enhance student experience.
• Utilizing an array of tools, softwares, and platforms to automate processes in order to minimize human intervention and ensuring a flawless and effortless delivery of our programs.

Must-Have Skills

• Ability to clearly and crisply communicate ideas, both verbally and in writing
• High accountability and responsibility to ensure flawless execution on a day-to-day basis
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Excel and Powerpoint)
• Empathy and a high Emotional Quotient to actively engage with students, understand & solve their queries
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and drive results to independently manage a set of programs
• Attention to detail - Spotting issues that could cause errors and delays, and affect quality, preferably before they snowball
• A structured approach to problem-solving, that involves struggling with the problem until you are able to isolate the Why before coming to a solution

Recruitment Process

As a small team, it’s imperative that we get to know each other before taking the leap. We want to ensure you succeed in your role within our team. Each conversation with us will last about 30-60 minutes. Typically the whole process takes between 8 - 15 business days depending on your and our schedules, and will be a mix of online and in-person interactions.

• Skill Assessment Task: This will be a task that assesses you on some of the core skills you’ll need to succeed in this role.
• Technical conversations: These will be calls with our current Program Management team wherein you can expect to be evaluated on the competencies needed for the job (mentioned above).
• Culture fit conversation: This will be a conversation with one of our founders to ensure that there is a fit with the Kraftshala Kode.
• Extending an offer: If all goes well, we will extend an offer that will mention the relevant details.

Location

Delhi

More about the company

We are Kraftshala. We are an online skilling institution committed to playing the long game of building a transformative educational experience for the masses. We call this ‘Scaling with Soul’.

Scaling with Soul, to us, means we always prioritise student outcomes– specifically our Placement Rate (percentage of students placed)- over other metrics, such as number of enrolments or company valuation in the coming year.

This is, of course, easier said than done. There are painful choices to be made at every stage, from admissions to training to placements, that wouldn’t have been needed were we willing to give up on either of high quality or scale.

But in the long run, we believe that our obsession over these student outcomes will earn Kraftshala the trust of Indian students, their families, recruiters and the broader ecosystem.

That’s why we make each of our Placement Reports public, capturing how many students are placed in each batch, in what companies, at what salaries etc.

We don’t need to. None of our competitors do (though we’d be happy to be proven wrong and have more educators join us!). Simply put, we have tasted the benefits of an education model grounded in high quality paired with the transparency of student outcomes and now cannot imagine doing it any other way.

We are not the largest in terms of enrollments. Nowhere close, actually. Not yet.

However, we are proud to be one of the largest, if not the largest already, in terms of actual, verifiable placements.

And in terms of Placement Rate, the metric that matters most to us, we are the absolute best in edtech. In the last 2 years, we have placed more than 1800+ students with a Placement Rate of 94% (and improving).

This is our long game- to Scale with Soul. We invite you to join us for the play. 

Funding

Kraftshala is backed by a number of eminent investors, including:

• Phanindra Sama and Sudhakar Pasupunuri, co-founders at Redbus and early investors in unicorns like Unacademy
• Amit Kumar Agarwal, Saurabh Garg and Akhil Gupta, co-founders at Nobroker.com (the world’s largest NoBrokerage Property Site and India’s first realty startup unicorn)
• Sujayathi Ali, Co-founder at ShopUp and Voonik
• Doreswamy Nandkishore (Former Fortune 100 CEO, Head of Asia, Oceania, Africa for Nestlé S.A. and Professor, ISB)
• Pallav Jain and Sarfaraz Khimani (co-CEOs of Performics, India's largest SEO/ performance marketing agencies)

What do we value (the Kraftshala Kode)

Kraftshala is on a mission to become the largest career launchpad in the world.

This is why Team Kraftshala is for the ambitious, the forever-learners, and most of all, for those who live to add value to others. In a world where education companies often lose sight of their core, we aim to Scale with Soul, to offer greater value to each stakeholder (including our team) everyday we get bigger. Joining Kraftshala now means becoming part of a story still in its early chapters- one you’ll help shape with your ideas, actions, and leadership.

Here are things we care for: 

• We seek a value-adding mindset in prospective team mates. Folks who demonstrate a capacity to understand their users' needs and combine it with a willingness to go the extra mile to deliver, fit right in.  
• We value problem-solving skills. We look at problems objectively, work backwards from the user, solve for root causes, and make decisions for long-term good instead of short-term gain. We don’t let processes or hierarchies get in the way of adding value.
• We believe speed matters enormously in business. We value people who move with urgency, have a bias for action, and are willing to take calculated risks in the face of uncertainty.
• We look for people with high learning agility, the truth seekers who pursue the best data, ideas, and solutions with rigour and open-mindedness, and are constantly working to become better today than yesterday.
• We admire people with ambition & courage to take on large goals. We are seeking to build a team of self-starters who demonstrate high ownership.
• We aim for consistency and reliability and expect the same from others. Predictability just makes everyone’s life a lot smoother.
• We believe people who demonstrate candour with care are the most effective: real, open and direct in communication, while still being highly empathetic. 
• We are practical optimists. Our team strongly believes in a better future and takes joy and pride in the fact that we are playing our part to make that future a reality.

The Content and Communications Manager is responsible for creating, managing, and executing content strategies to support the organization's communication and marketing goals. This role involves producing high-quality content across various platforms, managing communication channels, and ensuring consistent messaging that enhances the company's brand and engages its target audience.

Key Responsibilities:

Content Strategy:

Develop and implement a comprehensive content strategy aligned with the company's goals and target audience.

Conduct content audits to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement.

Stay up-to-date with industry trends and competitor activities to inform content strategy.

Content Creation:

Produce high-quality, engaging content for various platforms, including website, blog, social media, email, and print materials.

Collaborate with internal teams, such as marketing, product, and sales, to gather information and create relevant content.

Edit and proofread content to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency.

Communications Management:

Develop and manage the company's communication channels, including social media, newsletters, press releases, and internal communications.

Craft compelling messaging that aligns with the company's brand voice and resonates with the target audience.

Manage relationships with media contacts, influencers, and other external partners to amplify the company's reach.

SEO and Analytics:

Optimize content for search engines (SEO) to improve organic visibility and drive traffic to the company's website.

Monitor and analyze content performance using tools like Google Analytics, social media insights, and other relevant metrics.

Use data-driven insights to refine content strategies and improve engagement and conversion rates.

Project Management:

Manage content projects from conception to completion, ensuring timely deliver

A Sales Coordinator in Chennai, Tamil Nadu typically supports the sales team by handling administrative tasks, coordinating sales activities, and providing customer support.

Role & responsibilities

1. Develop and maintain native Android applications using Kotlin and Java.

2. Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services

3. Work with APIs, third-party libraries and Familiarity with MVC, MVVM.

4. Proficient in code versioning tools including GitHub and Gitlab.

5. Familiarity with push notifications,and cloud messaging.

6. Identifying potential problems and resolving application bugs.

7. Fixing application bugs before the final release.

8. Publishing application on Play Store.

9. Maintain code quality and Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

10. Collaborate with cross-functional teams for seamless integration.

11. Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Preferred candidate profile

• Minimum 3+ Years of Android Developer Experience or Created an App Before.
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin and Java.
• Experience with Jetpack Compose, Android Jetpack Components, Room, and Coroutines.
• Experience with UI/UX Designing, RESTful APIs and third-party libraries.
• Understanding of agile development methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Knowledge of Firebase Integration is an added advantage.
• Previous experience in fintech industry considered as plus point.

Perks and benefits

• Competitive Salary and Professional development opportunities and training.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative and supportive work environment.