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Founder's Associate

New York, NYBusiness OperationsHybrid4+ YOE
Summary

Operational lead for the Founder's Office supporting co-founder strategy, hiring, and initiatives. Own strategic projects, decks, data analysis, and cross-functional work while acting as personal assistant. High-agency role for ambitious operators with 4+ years experience.

About the role

What You Will Do

  • Drive strategic projects end-to-end on behalf of the founder's office, from launching the SF office, to standing up new operating cadences, to running company-wide reviews
  • Build the artefacts decisions get made on: board decks, all-hands, founder updates, the internal memos leadership actually reads
  • Pull and shape data to inform calls across hiring, ops, and finance, and surface what the numbers say that nobody is saying yet
  • Own cross-functional initiatives that cut across product, talent, ops, and finance and need a single accountable owner with no team
  • Use AI as a force multiplier. Ship more than people twice as senior, and raise the bar for what one person can do here
  • Spot what is breaking, what is dragging, and what the founders should be paying attention to but are not, then go fix it

What We Are Looking For

  • 4+ years at a serious bar: top-tier consulting, banking, a high-trajectory operator role at a strong startup, or equivalent
  • Demonstrably high trajectory. You have moved fast in every role you have held and have the references to prove it
  • Strong on data. SQL, spreadsheets, a quick model, and the instinct to ask the right question before opening the tool
  • AI-fluent. You use Claude, Cursor, n8n, or similar daily and have opinions about which tools earn their keep
  • Crisp written communication. You can draft a founder update, board memo, or all-hands narrative without us having to rewrite it
  • High agency. You unblock yourself, set your own bar, and do not wait for a process to tell you what is important
  • Real ambition. You want to run something inside two years, and you are picking this seat because it is the fastest path there
  • Nice-to-have: experience inside a Series B/C startup, ideally fintech, telco, or infra

What We Offer

  • Competitive compensation and stock options
  • Stipends for home office or work setup
  • Budget for learning and development
  • Free phone and international data plan
Skills
SQLspreadsheetsfinancial modelingClaudeCursorn8nboard deck creationdata analysiscross-functional project managementAI tooling