Founding Growth Operator

You are 1–3 years out of college, based in India, and want your first founding-team seat. You'll own our distribution motion end-to-end — channel execution, hands-on writing, and measurement — reporting to the founders. You'll ship, not strategize.

About Canary One

We're pre-seed funded, pre-launch, building the packaged open-model AI stack that 15–100 person Series A/B startups increasingly try to assemble themselves and get burned by. Two co-founders. India + EU-facing. Our first goal: Significant ARR milestone in 4 months from tech-forward CTOs who've outgrown the DIY router experience.

What you'll actually do

• Own the channel mix. We're running a multi-channel distribution playbook scaled to a pre-seed budget: founder-led Twitter/LinkedIn, 1–2 AI-generated launch videos, 5–10 handpicked influencer activations, one UGC pilot. You pick the vendors, brief them, hold them to weekly numbers, and kill what doesn't produce.
• Draft in founder voice. LinkedIn posts, tweets, launch video briefs, landing page copy. We refine, you ship — daily cadence, not weekly.
• Measure per-channel → ARR. Every dollar maps to the $100K beachhead. Weekly dashboard on channel spend, engagement, demo bookings, closes.
• Source and manage specialist vendors. LinkedIn Sales Nav + LinkdAPI research to find the specialist agencies and operators who fit our budget. We'll already have a shortlist; you extend it and run diligence.

What we're looking for

• 1–3 years growth or GTM at a B2B SaaS, dev tools, or AI startup — or exceptional side projects if less experience
• Portfolio of shipped distribution work — LinkedIn posts with engagement, launch videos you briefed or edited, influencer/UGC campaigns you ran, at any scale
• Fluent with LinkedIn Sales Nav and Clay-style enrichment tooling, basic SQL or Metabase
• Writes crisp copy in founder voice without heavy edits
• Fluent (or fast learner) on the AI/dev-tools Twitter and Bangalore distribution ecosystem — you know who the operators are and why they matter
• You are the person who reads the docs, not the one who asks for the walkthrough

Nice to haves

• Bangalore-based, plugged into the local distribution operator scene
• Recent time at a YC-adjacent Bangalore AI startup
• Published writing on X, Substack, or LinkedIn with real engagement
• Just moved back to India, or between roles, or currently at a stalled startup — hungry
• Opinions on which distribution channels work for infra vs consumer AI

How we work

• Remote-first India, 13:30–21:30 IST (EU business hours)
• Zoom > meeting. Ship > plan. Numbers > opinions.