Founder’s Office Intern – Deep Tech / Defence Tech
Gurugram,
HR,
India
Gurugram,
HR,
India
Aerial IQ India Pvt. Ltd. is looking for a high-ownership Founder’s Office Intern to work directly with the Founder & CEO.
This role is suitable for MBA, PGDM, or B.Tech + MBA candidates who want hands-on exposure to aerospace, drones, defence technology, unmanned systems, business strategy, and founder-led execution.
The intern will support execution across projects, research, business development, proposals, internal reviews, investor or partner material, dashboards, and strategic initiatives. The role requires someone structured, proactive, sharp, and comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change quickly.
This is not a routine internship. The candidate must be able to convert discussions into action items, track follow-ups, prepare clean documents, coordinate with teams, and support the Founder & CEO on high-priority work.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Founder & CEO to manage priorities, follow-ups, action trackers, and weekly execution reviews.
- Support project management across engineering, procurement, production, testing, trials, demos, proposals, compliance, and customer deliverables.
- Prepare meeting notes, decision logs, action plans, timelines, dashboards, and status updates.
- Coordinate with internal teams and external partners to ensure timely closure of action items.
- Conduct research on tethered drones, unmanned systems, ISR payloads, counter-drone systems, autonomy, AI-based surveillance, swarms, loitering systems, and global defence-tech trends.
- Support investor, banker, partner, and customer-facing presentations, company profiles, briefing notes, and strategic documents.
- Assist in market research, competitor benchmarking, opportunity mapping, and defence procurement tracking.
- Help structure new initiatives, internal processes, operating reviews, and management dashboards.
- Support proposal preparation, compliance matrices, pricing summaries, and documentation where required.
- Track key business opportunities, customer discussions, vendor dependencies, and internal milestones.
- Convert founder discussions into clear action items, owners, timelines, and follow-up trackers.
Must Have
- MBA / PGDM student or recent graduate.
- Strong interest in drones, defence technology, aerospace, robotics, unmanned systems, AI, autonomy, or national security technology.
- Excellent written communication, presentation, and research skills.
- Strong command of PowerPoint, Excel, Google Sheets, and productivity or project tracking tools.
- Ability to convert ambiguous discussions into clear action items, timelines, documents, and follow-ups.
- Highly organised, proactive, dependable, and comfortable working directly with senior leadership.
- Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail.
- Ability to coordinate across technical, business, operations, and external stakeholder teams.
- Comfortable working in a founder-led, fast-paced, high-expectation environment.
- Ability to work from office in Gurugram.
Nice to have
- B.Tech + MBA / PGDM background.
- Prior internship or experience in consulting, strategy, operations, project management, aerospace, drones, robotics, defence, manufacturing, or deep tech.
- Familiarity with defence procurement, government tenders, aerospace systems, UAVs, or emerging technologies.Strong analytical skills
- Basic understanding of UAV systems, tethered drones, ISR payloads, autonomy, surveillance technology, and defence applications.
- Experience preparing business presentations, investor material, research notes, dashboards, or management reports.
- Ability to work with tools such as Odoo, Notion, Jira, Trello, MS Project, Google Workspace, or similar project tracking platforms.
- Interest in building a longer-term career in Founder’s Office, Chief of Staff, strategy, project execution, defence technology, or aerospace business operations.
What's great in the job?
- Direct exposure to the Founder & CEO of a growing defence-tech and aerospace company.
- Hands-on experience in deep-tech business building, project execution, and strategic decision-making.
- Opportunity to work on drones, unmanned systems, ISR, autonomy, surveillance, and emerging aerospace technologies.
- Exposure to real business problems, customer opportunities, investor material, internal reviews, and high-impact initiatives.
- Work closely with Engineering, Production, Procurement, Quality, Business Development, and leadership teams.
- Suitable for candidates who want to grow into a Founder’s Office, Chief of Staff, strategy, operations, or deep-tech project execution role.
- Potential opportunity for a longer-term role based on performance.
Our Product
Who should apply
- This role is ideal for someone who is sharp, structured, curious, and execution-oriented.
- The right candidate should be comfortable making presentations, tracking projects, researching new technology, coordinating with teams, and converting founder discussions into clear action points.
- Candidates looking only for a routine internship or a pure strategy/PPT role may not be the right fit.
Application Process
Interested candidates may share their CV along with a short cover note explaining why they are interested in drones, defence technology, aerospace, or deep-tech execution.