# Founder Associate **Company:** [Svix](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/svix) **Location:** San Francisco, CA **Role:** Business Operations **Salary:** $140k – $175k/yr **Experience:** 0+ years **Skills:** Project Management, AI, Automation, Strategic Thinking, CRM, Business Intelligence **Posted:** 2026-06-01 > The Founder Associate will work closely with the founder, owning high-leverage work across strategy, project management, team, internal operations, and gap filling. This role involves significant exposure to all aspects of the business and requires a proactive, adaptable individual. ## Job Description ## About the role We are looking for a top performer to work closely with the founder. You'll get to affect and learn all aspects of the business, see how decision are made, build a broad skill set, and developer your network. You will also get to experiment with AI for real company use-cases, and work at the cutting edge. Expect high-intensity, a fast-paced startup environment, smart colleagues, and the opportunity to do your life's work helping us become a generation defining developer infrastructure company. ### Mission Make the founder more effective by owning the highest-leverage work across the business. Be a thought partner, help with strategy, and make sure the important things actually happen. ### Example responsibilities: * **Strategy, research, and planning:** market analysis, opportunity assessment, sounding board, GTM projects, etc. * **Project management:** goal setting, metrics, reporting, accountability, and following through on founder priorities. * **Team:** hiring, development, compensation, and feedback cycles. * **Internal ops & systems:** compliance & controls, processes, automation, and tooling. * **Gap filling:** owning undefined problems end-to-end, then automating them or handing them off. ### Outcomes * **Strategy & planning** become a trusted thought partner, where the founder can hand off ambiguous strategic questions and get back decision-ready analysis * **Hiring** lead hiring two additional engineers in SF in the first few months. * **Project management** set up processes so that every team has robust goal setting, metrics, reporting and accountability team wide. * **Systems & gap filling** take over responsibilities such as company controls, processes, and automation. For example, own compliance calendar, CRM management, and BI systems so that founder time is ~0. * **AI & Automation** connect systems, data, and AI for more connected and better decision making. The goal is to have all relevant company data accessible from a single place and queryable to systems. With the knowledge base systems being first, with the goal of having a live and reliable company knowledge base. The first step should be done in the first few months. ### Competencies (ABC) * **Project management:** know how to manage projects, create plans, and execute against them while keeping everything organized. * **AI forward:** have used Claude Code or Codex successfully for real use-cases. Understand (high-level) some of the technical aspects including context window, tool-calling, subagents, and more. Excited and curious about leveraging these tools to increase our leverage. * **Automations:** used tools to create automations around common workflows. * **Strategic thinking:** demonstrate the ability to think in both the micro and macro levels, and how to effectively plan and execute to reach long-horizon goals. * **Competent with computers:** you don’t need to be an engineer, but you can’t be a luddite. You need to be a proficient user of computers. * **Research, learning and consumption of information:** you’re able to pickup up new topics quickly and be able to execute in new domains in short amounts of time. * **Work in ambiguity:** startups operate in high ambiguity environments. You need to be able to successfully plan and execute with missing information and constantly adapt as new information presents itself. * **Scientific:** you need to know how to construct good experiments, read data, and draw conclusions. ### Qualities (ABC) * **Smart:** raw intelligence and quick thinker. * **Resourceful:** scrappy as a default, but also spends when needed. * **Wants to win:** driven, competitive, and focused on winning. * **High energy:** knows there’s a lot to be done, and has the energy to push it forward. * **High agency:** figures out what needs to be done and does it. Finds solutions to problems, and realizes we control our own destiny. * **Not lazy:** willing to do the work, automating when needed, but not outsourcing thinking. LLMs are a powerful tool, but they shouldn’t replace thinking or be used for things they are not suitable for. * **Thorough:** follows tasks through to completion and pays close attention to detail, ensuring nothing is overlooked and the quality is high. * **Values aligned:** aligned with our values. ### General guidelines * We like candidates with varied backgrounds - don't be shy, apply! * Hackers/OSS devs welcome, even without extensive work history. * Please include a few words on why you'd like to work at Svix. * All roles are full-time - no students or part-time. ## Similar roles - [Business Operations Associate](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/be96db4c-13db-42e0-94b1-5bd36498fa83) - Cardless - San Francisco, CA - $140k – $175k/yr - [Business Operations](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/9cd05a8f-ba99-40d7-b728-5ac8d1e0fbda) - Flint - San Francisco, CA - $140k – $185k/yr - [Strategy & Operations](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/14e23778-de78-48b5-a6f7-d00eeaca21fa) - Forus - New York, NY - $140k – $250k/yr - [Business Operations | Founder's Associate](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/ef1eb59b-4191-488e-bc30-296f1b44ad07) - Actively AI - New York, NY - $140k – $175k/yr - [Founders Associate](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/062d1be4-1a71-49da-b25b-d7ad2d69e785) - Roger Healthcare - San Francisco, CA - $130k – $180k/yr **Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1f5a8174-3e84-4385-97ad-a9d5a7bce853 **Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1f5a8174-3e84-4385-97ad-a9d5a7bce853