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Founder's Office

This role acts as an execution-focused operator for the CEO and leadership team, driving cross-functional projects, operating cadence, enterprise delivery, and compliance workflows. It requires 2–6 years of experience, strong writing and project-management skills, analytical ability, and comfort operating in regulated environments.

About the job

Responsibilities

CEO / Founder Enablement

  • Own the CEO's operating cadence, including weekly priorities, OKR/KR tracking, meeting hygiene, decision logs, and follow-ups.
  • Turn leadership conversations into action by writing memos, capturing decisions, assigning owners, and driving closure.
  • Prepare internal and external meetings with briefs, stakeholder maps, agendas, talking points, and post-meeting execution.

Strategic & Cross-Functional Execution

  • Run special projects across Product, Engineering, Compliance, Sales, and Customer Success.
  • Build dashboards, templates, playbooks, and operating routines.
  • Drive 0-to-1 initiatives such as customer onboarding plans, pilot definitions, KPI frameworks, pricing and packaging analysis, and process redesign.

GTM / Customer Delivery Operations

  • Support enterprise deal execution, including proposal and SOW hygiene, pricing models, redline coordination, and mutual action plans.
  • Create customer-ready executive updates, ROI/KPI reporting, launch communications, and rollout plans.
  • Own high-stakes timelines, dependencies, risk flags, and escalation paths.

Compliance / Quality / Governance

  • Help operationalize compliance through policy-update tracking, QA workflows, audit-ready documentation, and evidence collection.
  • Maintain change-management discipline by documenting what changed, why, who approved it, and the rollout plan.

Internal Operations

  • Improve internal throughput through planning rituals, meeting structures, hiring process upgrades, and tooling choices.
  • Partner with Finance and Business Operations on budgeting, vendor management, and operational metrics as needed.

Requirements

  • 2–6 years of experience in a demanding environment such as startup operations, consulting, banking or fintech operations, product operations, investment or strategy, or founder-led roles.
  • Strong project-management and end-to-end execution skills.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication.
  • Analytical ability, including Excel or Sheets, basic modeling, and KPI design.
  • Stakeholder-management skills across executives, individual contributors, internal teams, and external partners.
  • Operational rigor, including process, documentation, and follow-through.
  • High agency, structured thinking, discretion, adaptability, and comfort with a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with enterprise customers or regulated workflows in finance, insurance, or healthcare.
  • Strong writing skills across memos, project plans, customer updates, and specifications.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary range: $150,000–$230,000.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Generous 401(k).
  • Catered lunches.
  • The team typically works around 60 hours per week, beginning at 8:00 AM, with four days collaborating in person at the San Francisco office.

Skills

Project Management, Excel, Google Sheets, Financial Modeling, Kpi Design, Stakeholder Management, Operations, Documentation, Change Management, Pricing Analysis

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