Unived is a bootstrapped, founder-led precision nutrition company that
has been making evidence-led supplements since 2010. We are small,
deliberate, and uninterested in growing into something we no longer
recognise. We are looking for people who want to be part of building
this for the long term.
More: Our Story · Values & Principles · Business Overview
Someone who reads our website, reads our values, reads our Founder's Letters — and finds themselves nodding. Someone with a real point of view about what they could contribute to Unived that we have not thought of. Someone who is not asking for a job title but is offering capability. Someone whose career thinking is in decades, not in promotion cycles.
For this Open Position specifically, what matters is not how old you are or how much experience is on your CV. What matters is what you have actually done with it.
We are open to two kinds of people.
The first is someone with real experience behind them — who has built things, failed at things, learned from both, and now has a sharpened skill in a specific domain. Financial accounting, food technology, brand communication, customer retention, supply chain, sourcing, operations — and more. Someone who has done the work to master their craft and is now looking for somewhere meaningful to apply it.
The second is someone young, with much less behind them, but who has gone deep enough into a single subject — research, formulation, writing, design, athletics, software, anything — that the depth itself is the qualification. Someone whose drive is internal. Someone who has backed themselves on something and produced.
What both have in common is more important than what makes them different. They are people who lead — in the work, not in the title. They have a track record of stepping up when others didn't. They have done the unglamorous thing because it needed doing. They show up with a worldview and an offer, not with a CV and a request.
This Open Position is not for someone who is between jobs. It is not for someone who just needs a role. It is not for a fresher building a first résumé. It is for someone who is good at what they do, who knows it, and who has chosen to bring that to Unived because they believe in what we are building. We are looking for the captain of the team, at whatever stage of their career they are in.
For most jobs, this is where the responsibilities go. A list of what you'll do, who you'll report to, what's on your plate by week six.
For the Open Position, there is no such list — because the role does not get defined until you propose it. The thing we are advertising is the openness, not a job.
How it actually works.
You write to us with what you can do. Not a CV. An offer — what you have mastered, what you have built or backed yourself on, and where in the business you think it could matter. Be specific. "I have spent ten years inside food technology and I see three things in your range I would change. Here is how I would change them" is the kind of offer that gets read carefully. "I have wide skills and would like to learn more about your industry" is not.
If your offer interests us, we will write back and ask to meet. The meeting is a conversation, not an interview — we want to understand the substance behind what you wrote. We will tell you honestly what we are working on, what is broken, and where we think your capability could land. You will tell us honestly whether the work is something you want to put your years into.
If there is a fit, we shape a role around it. It might be a leadership seat we did not know we needed until we met you, or an execution-focused front-line role where your craft does the work directly. We are looking for people who want to put a decade into something, not 18 months.
Sometimes the right way to start is smaller — a defined project, or a short engagement to test the relationship. If that is what makes sense as an entry point, we are open to it. But the conversation always starts with where the long-term seat could be, not with the project itself. We are looking for partners, not contractors.
What we will not do.
We will not fit you into an existing org chart slot just because there is an opening. We will not take you on because we like you in the meeting and figure it out later. We will not promise a title before we have agreed on the work. None of these end well.
If there is no fit, we will tell you that too. Honestly, in the same conversation. We would rather both of us walk away clearly than start something that needs to be unwound.
Most job descriptions soften this section. We won't.
You will not feel urgency from someone else's clock. There is no investor demanding velocity, no quarterly board meeting setting pace. The tempo is set by the work being right, not by an external timeline. People who carry their own drive find this freeing. People who rely on external pressure to perform will find its absence disorienting.
The compensation reflects what we are. A profitable mid-sized Indian business, not a venture-funded scale story. Cash compensation is fair for what we are; it is not what funded startups can offer. ESOPs exist for the right person, but they are aligned to the same slow, compounding curve the company is on — not a lottery ticket. If you are optimising for cash maximisation or for an exit, the math will not work here.
Amit is in the room. The founder works directly with senior hires — with opinions, history, and a clear sense of what Unived should be. For people who want a sparring partner who will fight for the right answer, this is the best thing about the job. For people who expected to be the final word on their domain, it is the worst.
Some standard moves are off the table. Unived has chosen, repeatedly, to forgo growth in service of principles — no performance marketing, no claims we cannot substantiate, no ingredients we cannot stand behind. If your craft depends on any of these moves, the role will require you to find different ones. Read the Values page carefully before deciding whether that is freeing or frustrating.
If any one of these makes you flinch — read it twice and decide whether you can live with it for a decade. The list is not a marketing exercise. It is what is actually true.
You are pitching into uncertainty. We will not have a job ad to match
you to, a process to slot you into, or a clear pre-defined role. The
work will be defined by what you can credibly do, and the boundary will
be negotiated.
You will have to make a case for yourself in a way that a defined-role
application does not. The bar is higher because the slot is not pre-cut.
And you have to be willing to wait. An application like this needs
careful thought, and we will not respond quickly. If we are interested,
we will want to meet you — go for a walk, share a meal, meet your
family. This can take weeks. Sometimes months.
Email careers@unived.com with the subject line "Open Position". Attach your CV. In the body of the email, address the four questions Amit pays the closest attention to — listed on the Careers page. Amit reads every application personally. Usually within a week.
