Startup Research Analyst (Tech)

Location

Mumbai | India

Job description

Summary 

• You will be reporting to the Vice President at JioGenNext.
• Your role involves secondary and primary research on the startup and venture ecosystem.
• The role involves extensive search capabilities in public and private databases as well as primary research capabilities in terms of interviews with startups of interest.
• The role requires an understanding of different industry verticals such as energy, materials, retail, digital services and telecom. You need to have the ability to deep dive into specific cases under evaluation to understand the product / technology, business models, traction metrics, market opportunity, financial projections and team details.
• Further you should be able to provide analysis and present startup credentials in MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.
• You should also have the ability to verbally present credentials of a startup to JioGenNext team and further other important stakeholders in the organization.
• This is a very hands-on role and requires an inclination towards analysis, synthesis and packaging of information to make it easily and quickly understandable to relevant audiences in order to take a decision. 

Responsibilities 

• Primary research – interviews and discussions with founders of startup companies. 
• Secondary research – search in public and private databases like Tracxn, Crunchbase, etc. Additionally, the ability to conduct structured surveys amongst founders of startup companies and compiling such surveys into structured reports for internal stakeholders. 
• Should have a broad understanding of markets and technology areas within energy, materials, retail, digital services and telecom. 
• Should be able to deep dive on individual startup companies and put together information memos that carry an analysis of the following minimum information i) Team ii) Business Model iii) Metrics iv) Market opportunity (top-down and bottom-up) v) GTM strategy vi) Marketing/Sales vii) Financial Projections viii) Scale-up strategy ix) Customer case studies, etc. 
• Should be comfortable in the use of MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel to present startup company information. 
• Should be comfortable in the use of English to present startup company credentials to JioGenNext team and internal stakeholders. 
• Needs to be curiosity driven, show humility towards continuous learning and adapting and take full ownership of work. 
• Should be comfortable working in a large company i.e. able to follow large company processes while still adapting to a nimble, open and flexible startup work culture within the JioGenNext team. 

Education & Experience 

• B.E. (any discipline) OR MBA (Top Tier Management Institutions of India/Abroad) 

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: (2-3 years) 

• Prepared research reports, information memos and providing detailed analysis on companies and markets.
• Scouted for startups across multiple domains,
• Explored new technologies and studied market readiness.

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