Founder's office - culture lead

This is not a job description. This is a letter.

A letter written by a frustrated founder.

A founder who is unable to solve a problem.

The problem is me. And i'm hoping to find a sharp, deep thinking, problem solving, gen Z kid to come in and save my company from myself.

Quick intro

I'm a 29yo, first generation founder who started this business 10 years ago.

I had no formal business training - just lots of whacky ideas and a pretty mad appetite for risk.

Today, we're a team of 53 folks, 100% remote - and are running the show for some of the biggest (and coolest) D2C brands of the country - Gully labs, NUUK, NOOE, The Cinnamon Kitchen - to name a few.

Our biggest problem?

Our team is too good.

Hear me out...i promise this will make sense.

The only reason why we're doing well, and are able to pull off some of the boldest marketing campaigns the country has ever seen - is because of our team.

The only reason why i have been able to attract & retain this team is because of our company culture.

It may seem like a small word. "Culture".

But culture is the operating system of a society.

It shapes how people behave, what they value, how they make decisions, how they treat others, and what they consider right or wrong.

And a company is also a mini-society.

When you put 5, 50 or 500 people in one place:

• They need norms
• They need values
• They need a shared way to behave
• They need a shared way to work together
• They need a shared understanding of what’s rewarded and what’s punished

If society needs culture to function, a company needs it even more.

So what i am trying to say is that - i am deeply proud of the culture we have built at Porcellia.

But this culture is under threat. We are under threat because of how fast we are growing.

I would love to slow down. prioritise culture and vibes over growth & money and other boring business stuff. But i cannot. Remember how i said my team being too good is a problem?

Well it is a problem because i cannot slow down right now. These are people who have trusted me to help them make disproportionate financial gains. And slowing down to prioritise "culture" over growth would mean that i could lose this beautiful team i have built over the past decade.

Long story short (this is where you come in)

We need to do both together. Growth without compromising on culture.

We have grown from a team of 8 people to 53 people over the last 12 months.

If growth continues at this pace (which it will), i may completely lose grip on our company culture and before that happens, i want to hire a culture lead for the org.

Right now, the business is growing much faster than the individual people in the org.

This has resulted in the quality of some recent hires being much worse than what our company is used to operating at. Because we have started hiring based on resumes and skills, as opposed to heart & soul.

TLDR

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And we have to do it while growing fast.

While maintaining the high talent density that we're known for.

I don't have the solution to this problem. But you might.

If this is a project that you can get behind, we have a position for you in our founder's office.

This role will start as an internship and convert into a full time position within 3 months.

What you need to have/be

1. be fast. Mentally, physically, emotionally, intellectually, and in any other way you can professionally imagine.
2. identify as a deep thinker with a bias towards action (very rare combination)
3. Ability to understand emotions of other people/self well but still take decisions based on logic.
4. identify as a quick-decision maker.
5. be willing to do anything and everything to help the org
6. identify as an "old soul" (needed for someone so young to do a role this mature)
7. be (very) good at sheets/ excel
8. good at canva
9. brilliant with people (are you your friend group's designated therapist?)
10. you view problems as opportunities and not obstacles

As a founder's office associate, you are the extension of the founder himself. Your age does not matter, people will listen to you. So its a lot of responsibility and maturity that you will need to demonstrate.

Who should apply?

Someone who one day wants to start their own business.

You will learn first-hand something that most founders take multi-decades to master - how to attract, upskill & retain talent, purely by leveraging culture to its fullest potential.

Think this is merely a glorified HR job posting? Would love to get on a call and prove you wrong :)

How to apply

send us an email at riteshdritelin@porcellia.com & ishmita@porcellia.com

tell us why YOU are the missing piece of the puzzle we have been looking for

Salary Transparency

Internship: 10k per month (3 months)

Full time: 5-7LPA