Co-Founder

About the Role:

We Are Not Building Just Another Company:

• We are building a team of passionate, ambitious, slightly mad people who genuinely care about the problem we are solving.
• People who don't want to simply do a job.
• People who want to build something that matters.
• Our ambition is aggressive: ₹100 Crore Revenue in Year One.
• We don't believe that number will be achieved by one founder, one brilliant idea, or working harder than everyone else.
• We believe it will be achieved by building the right set of people, giving them ownership, and creating a team that is willing to do what most people would consider unreasonable.
• That is why we are looking for our Co-Founders.

About Placemux:

• Placemux is building an AI-powered campus-to-career and talent ecosystem designed to change how candidates, institutions, and companies connect.
• We started working on Placemux on 1st June 2026.
• 10th July 2026 – Live for Companies.
• 10th August 2026 – Candidate platform goes live.
• Post 30th August 2026 – Institutes & Colleges go live.
• ₹50+ Lakhs – Revenue already generated through our pilot.
• We have moved beyond the idea stage.
• The product is being built.
• The market is responding.
• Revenue is being generated.
• Now we are entering the stage where we need the right people to build the company at scale.

Why We Started Placemux:

• The employment ecosystem has a fundamental problem.
• A candidate's resume, degree, marks, or college name does not necessarily represent what that person is actually capable of doing.
• Companies struggle to identify the right talent.
• Students struggle to understand their employability and where they actually stand.
• Institutions struggle to consistently produce and demonstrate meaningful placement outcomes.
• We believe there has to be a better way.
• Placemux is being built around one fundamental belief: Talent should be discovered by capability, not just credentials.
• We want to connect: Candidates → Skills → Assessments → Capability → Institutions → Companies → Opportunities
• We want to make the entire journey more measurable, transparent, intelligent, and outcome-driven.

The Impact We Want to Create:

• We don't want to build another job portal.
• We want to create an ecosystem that can fundamentally change how talent is discovered and hired.

For Candidates:

• Help candidates understand their capabilities.
• Help candidates identify gaps.
• Help candidates become industry-ready.
• Help candidates access opportunities based on what they can actually do.

For Institutions:

• Help colleges move beyond conventional placement processes.
• Build a measurable, technology-driven employability ecosystem.

For Companies:

- Help companies discover the right talent based on skills, assessments, projects, performance, and potential, rather than relying only on resumes.

For the Ecosystem:

• Reduce the gap between What education produces ↔ What industry actually needs.
• Ultimately create a world where opportunity is determined more by capability than by background or credentials.

Our First-Year Ambition:

• We are not hiding behind conservative targets.
• Our target is ₹100 Crore revenue in our first year.
• Is it ambitious? Absolutely.
• Is it difficult? Extremely.
• Is it possible? We believe it is—with the right product, the right strategy, and most importantly, the right people.
• We are not looking for people who ask: "Is this target realistic?"
• We are looking for people who ask: "What would it take to make this happen?"

The Co-Founder We Are Looking For:

• We are looking for a Co-Founder who wants to build, not participate.
• Someone who can take a blank sheet, create a strategy, build a team, execute relentlessly, learn from failures, and own the outcome.
• You may come from:
• Startup / Entrepreneurship
• B2B SaaS
• EdTech
• HRTech / RecruitmentTech
• Enterprise Sales
• Business Development
• Product Management
• Strategic Partnerships
• AI / Technology
• Education
• Talent / Workforce Technology
• Your previous designation matters less than your ability to build.

We Want People Who Are:

• Hungry.
• Curious.
• Relentless.
• Fearless about taking ownership.
• Obsessed with solving problems.
• Comfortable with ambiguity.
• Fast at learning.
• Fast at executing.
• Crazy enough to chase a ₹100 Cr target.
• Passionate enough to care about the problem, not just the position.

What You Will Own:

• As a Co-Founder, you will take ownership of a significant area of Placemux.
• Depending on your strengths, this could include:

Business & Revenue:

• Build and execute revenue strategy.
• Drive company acquisition and enterprise growth.
• Build scalable sales channels.
• Develop new revenue opportunities.
• Own revenue targets and outcomes.

Growth & Partnerships:

• Build relationships with companies, colleges, universities, and strategic partners.
• Develop large-scale institutional and enterprise partnerships.
• Create scalable GTM strategies.
• Expand Placemux across markets.

Product & Strategy:

• Work with the Founder and technology team on product direction.
• Identify critical market problems.
• Drive product-market fit.
• Convert customer feedback into product opportunities.
• Build a category-defining product.

Team Building:

• Hire exceptional people.
• Build and lead teams.
• Create a high-performance culture.
• Establish accountability and measurable outcomes.
• Develop future leaders.

Fundraising & Strategic Growth:

• Participate in investor conversations.
• Support fundraising and strategic planning.
• Build relationships across the startup ecosystem.
• Help shape the company's long-term direction.

What You Get:

• This isn't simply a designation upgrade.
• You get the opportunity to build something from the ground up and own a meaningful part of what you create.
• Co-Founder position.
• Significant equity/ownership opportunity, subject to mutual agreement.
• Direct involvement in strategic decisions.
• Opportunity to build and lead your own function.
• Direct access to the Founder.
• Participation in fundraising and investor discussions.
• Opportunity to build a high-growth company from an early stage.
• The chance to create measurable impact across the education and employment ecosystem.

What We Expect From You:

• We expect ownership, not attendance.
• Take decisions.
• Take responsibility.
• Build.
• Experiment.
• Fail fast.
• Learn faster.
• Challenge assumptions.
• Solve problems without waiting for instructions.
• Build people around you.
• Think beyond your designation.
• Do whatever the business requires when the situation demands it.
• There will be no perfectly defined playbook.
• We are building the playbook while building the company.

This Is Not For Everyone:

If you are looking for:

• A predictable job.
• A fixed 9-to-5.
• A predefined responsibility list.
• Someone to tell you what to do.
• A designation without ownership.
• Comfort over growth.

Please don't apply.

But if you want to:

• Build from zero to one.
• Build something meaningful.
• Take real ownership.
• Work with an ambitious founding team.
• Build teams.
• Create a category.
• Chase an audacious ₹100 Cr first-year target.
• Potentially look back years later and say "I was there when we built it."

We want to meet you.