# Founder Associate
**Company:** [Svix](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/svix)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $140K-$175K
**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.
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