Junior GTM Associate - Sales, Marketing & Partnerships

Role: Junior GTM Associate - Sales, Marketing & Partnerships

Company: StepsAI

Location: Hyderabad, In-office

Type: Full-time

Openings: 7

Experience: Fresh graduates / 0–1 year

Salary: Paid, based on skills and potential

StepsAI is building AI agents for businesses across websites, Shopify stores, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and other customer-facing channels.

Our agents help businesses answer customer questions instantly, recommend products, capture leads, track orders, book meetings, automate workflows, and increase conversions.

We are building for a world where every business will have AI agents working across sales, support, marketing, and operations.

Now we are hiring 7 Founder’s Office Associates to support our sales, marketing, partnerships, affiliate, and growth teams.

This is a high-ownership role for fresh graduates who want to learn how a startup grows from the inside.

You will work closely with the founders and support different growth functions at StepsAI — including partner programs, affiliate programs, outbound email, lead generation, research, content, sales support, marketing campaigns, and customer follow-ups.

This is not a passive fresher role.

This is not a role where you wait for instructions all day.

This is a role for people who are hungry, curious, fast, organized, and willing to learn by doing.

If you want to understand how sales, marketing, growth, AI, and startup execution work in real life, this role is for you.

You may support multiple teams and projects, including:

You will help build lists of potential customers and partners.

This may include:

• Finding companies that can use StepsAI
• Researching Shopify brands, agencies, clinics, SaaS companies, service businesses, and local businesses
• Finding decision-makers
• Collecting websites, LinkedIn profiles, emails, and company details
• Organizing lead data in spreadsheets or CRM tools
• Identifying companies with strong fit for StepsAI

You will support our outbound growth team.

This may include:

• Researching companies before outreach
• Personalizing cold emails
• Finding customer pain points from websites
• Creating first lines and email personalization
• Supporting follow-up sequences
• Tracking replies
• Updating CRM records
• Helping improve campaign data quality

You will support the StepsAI partner program for agencies, resellers, and white-label partners.

This may include:

• Finding web development, Shopify, marketing, SEO, and automation agencies
• Researching agency services and clients
• Preparing partner outreach lists
• Supporting partner onboarding
• Organizing partner assets
• Tracking partner conversations
• Helping the Partner Manager with follow-ups and research

You will support our affiliate program.

This may include:

• Finding AI creators, SaaS creators, YouTubers, newsletter owners, consultants, and community owners
• Researching their audience and fit
• Preparing outreach lists
• Supporting affiliate onboarding
• Tracking affiliate activity
• Helping create campaign ideas and content assets

You will help the sales team stay organized and move faster.

This may include:

• Preparing company research before demos
• Taking notes from sales calls
• Updating CRM stages
• Tracking follow-ups
• Organizing customer information
• Helping prepare proposals or demo notes
• Re-engaging warm prospects
• Tracking reasons why prospects convert or drop off

You will support marketing campaigns and content research.

This may include:

• Researching competitors
• Studying AI trends
• Finding customer pain points
• Collecting examples from websites, social media, Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, and communities
• Helping create content ideas
• Supporting blog, social media, and campaign research
• Turning founder ideas into structured notes or briefs

You will help the team run fast growth experiments.

This may include:

• Testing new target segments
• Building small lead lists
• Researching new channels
• Tracking experiment results
• Collecting feedback
• Creating simple reports
• Helping the team understand what is working and what is not

We are looking for fresh graduates who are:

• Hungry to learn
• Curious about startups, AI, sales, and marketing
• Fast with research
• Good at using Google, LinkedIn, spreadsheets, and AI tools
• Strong in written communication
• Organized and detail-oriented
• Comfortable doing repetitive work with high quality
• Willing to take ownership
• Not afraid to ask questions
• Not dependent on constant hand-holding
• Excited to work in a fast-moving startup environment

You do not need years of experience.

But you do need energy, discipline, curiosity, and the ability to learn fast.

• Good written English
• Strong internet research skills
• Comfort with Google Sheets or Excel
• Ability to use LinkedIn for research
• Ability to organize data clearly
• Ability to follow processes and improve them
• Willingness to learn sales, marketing, and AI tools
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work from office in Hyderabad

• Experience with internships, college clubs, sales, marketing, events, content, or startup projects
• Basic understanding of AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini
• Basic understanding of LinkedIn, email, social media, or digital marketing
• Familiarity with tools like Notion, Airtable, HubSpot, Apollo, Clay, Canva, or Google Workspace
• Interest in startups, SaaS, AI, business development, or growth marketing

You will get hands-on exposure to:

• How startups acquire customers
• How cold email campaigns are built
• How partner programs work
• How affiliate programs are built
• How sales pipelines are managed
• How marketing campaigns are researched
• How AI tools are used in business workflows
• How founders think about growth
• How to work across sales, marketing, product, and customer success

This role can become a launchpad into future roles such as:

• Growth Associate
• Sales Development Representative
• Partner Associate
• Affiliate Associate
• Marketing Associate
• Customer Success Associate
• Founder’s Office Generalist
• GTM Associate

• You understand StepsAI, our product, and our target customers
• You learn our sales and marketing workflows
• You build clean lead lists
• You support outbound, partner, affiliate, or sales tasks
• You use AI tools and spreadsheets effectively
• You show consistency, speed, and attention to detail

• You own small workflows independently
• You improve the quality of research and data
• You help the team generate more outreach, conversations, and follow-ups
• You support multiple growth experiments
• You become faster and sharper in execution

• You are trusted with important GTM workflows
• You contribute to sales, marketing, partner, or affiliate outcomes
• You identify improvements in processes
• You become a strong supporting system for senior hires and founders
• You start developing into a specialized role based on your strengths

This role is for fresh graduates who want to build their career in startups, AI, sales, marketing, or business growth.

You should apply if you are ambitious, curious, hard-working, organized, and excited to learn by doing.

This is not a role for someone who wants slow work, fixed instructions, or a comfortable corporate training program.

This is a startup role. You will learn fast, work fast, and grow fast.

Because you will get to work close to the founders and learn how a startup is built from the ground up.

You will not be stuck doing one narrow task forever. You will get exposure to sales, marketing, partnerships, affiliate growth, content, customer research, and AI tools.

If you are early in your career and want to become a strong business, sales, or marketing operator, this is a high-growth place to start.