Founder Associate

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Cultivate a deep understanding of priorities, progress, challenges, risks, and forthcoming decisions across Rayda.

• Participate in leadership and company-wide meetings.

• Establish strong collaborative relationships with department leaders.

• Recognize issues or gaps that may need the CEO's attention.

• Create succinct Founder Briefs summarizing key developments, risks, decisions, and follow-ups.

• Maintain awareness of Rayda’s globally distributed team dynamics.

• Oversee and manage the company-wide commitments tracker.

• Monitor commitments, responsible parties, deadlines, dependencies, blockers, and progress status.

• Proactively follow up with owners before commitments become overdue.

• Identify stalled or declining commitments and understand the underlying reasons.

• Escalate significant issues as necessary.

• Translate CEO priorities and ideas into actionable, clear plans.

• Clarify desired outcomes and identify suitable owners and stakeholders.

• Define key actions, milestones, dependencies, and timelines.

• Coordinate with relevant departments and teams.

• Monitor progress and highlight blockers.

• Keep the CEO updated without needing direct management of each initiative.

• Assist department heads in enhancing clarity, accountability, coordination, and follow-through.

• Follow up on agreed actions and deadlines.

• Facilitate cross-functional work and coordinate activities across multiple departments.

• Identify emerging operational issues and escalate persistent or significant concerns.

• Differentiate between matters that require CEO attention and those that can be resolved elsewhere.

• Prepare the CEO for key meetings and decisions.

• Track CEO commitments, decisions, and follow-ups.

• Identify stalled or low-momentum priorities.

• Shield the CEO from unnecessary operational distractions while ensuring essential information is communicated.

• Respectfully challenge the CEO when priorities or focus seem inconsistent.

• Prepare internal updates, presentations, documents, and briefing materials.

• Coordinate company-wide communications and follow-ups.

• Translate leadership decisions into clear actions and designated ownership.

• Ensure crucial information reaches the appropriate parties.

• Organize internal offsites, leadership sessions, hackathons, team gatherings, and other company initiatives.

• Manage logistics, stakeholders, timelines, and follow-through.

• Collaborate with internal teams and external service providers as necessary.

• Provide operational support for external events when required.

• Coordinate flights, accommodations, transportation, and travel itineraries.

• Communicate travel plans and logistics well in advance.

• Arrange important appointments as needed.

• Anticipate logistical requirements surrounding travel and significant commitments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong sense of ownership with the ability to identify issues, take initiative, and ensure follow-through without constant oversight.

• Exceptional organizational and prioritization abilities, capable of managing multiple priorities, commitments, and deadlines simultaneously.

• Strong judgment to discern what requires CEO attention, what should be escalated, and what can be independently resolved.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence in engaging employees, department heads, senior leadership, and external stakeholders.

• Proven ability to perform effectively in fast-paced, high-responsibility, and ambiguous environments.

• Strong execution and coordination capabilities, particularly across various teams and stakeholders.

• Ability to proactively track commitments and translate agreed actions into tangible outcomes.

• High level of discretion and maturity in handling confidential or sensitive information.

• Confidence to respectfully challenge senior stakeholders and ask direct, constructive questions when necessary.

• Strong curiosity and willingness to gain a comprehensive understanding of various business functions, including Product, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Finance, Operations, and People.

• High adaptability and ability to respond effectively as priorities shift.

• Experience in startup operations, business operations, Founder’s Office, executive operations, strategy, consulting, project/programme management, investment banking, or other demanding environments is advantageous but not mandatory.

• Previous Executive Assistant experience is not required; exceptional early-career candidates demonstrating strong judgment, ownership, and operational capability are encouraged to apply.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work directly with Rayda’s Founder & CEO.

• Extensive exposure across Strategy, Operations, Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance, People, and company-wide execution.

• Chance to work in a growing, globally distributed technology company.

• Significant learning and professional development through exposure to company-wide priorities and leadership decision-making.

• Potential to expand into broader responsibilities within the Founder’s Office, Executive Operations, or Chief of Staff roles as Rayda and the individual evolve.