Founder's Associate

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Oversee the operations of the founder's office across a collective of B2B software and media enterprises.

• Manage the operational cadence, which includes daily check-ins, weekly business evaluations, Friday updates, and maintaining the decision log.

• Transform unassigned workstreams from discussions into concise one-page recommendations and implement the founder's directives.

• Filter and curate what is presented to the founder, summarizing each decision in a single page outlining the decision, options, recommendation, and deadlines.

• Ensure follow-through by coordinating with teams, making calls, providing counsel, and liaising with the company secretary and candidates.

• Collaborate with the recruiter on hiring processes, including scorecards, interviews, reference checks, trials, and onboarding.

• Oversee operational administration tasks such as payroll and banking within specified limits, tools management, and maintaining the filing calendar until properly documented and transitioned.

• Work alongside co-founders, investor teams, and advisors.

• Lead and maintain accountability for the AI operational layer, including documentation, cadence documents, meeting preparations, and initial drafts.

• Optimize the founder's schedule to focus on tasks that only he can perform.

• Ensure the operational rhythm persists during the founder's absence or fatigue.

• Successfully onboard two senior hires within the first six months.

• Guarantee that filings, payments, commitments, and follow-ups are consistently managed.

⛳️ Requirements

• Outstanding writing abilities; capable of distilling a disorganized forty-minute conversation into a succinct one-page memo with a candid recommendation.

• Proven ability to close loops with individuals who do not report to you, including examples from the last three such situations.

• Comfortable engaging with senior executives.

• Competence in representing the founder's interests alongside two seasoned co-founders during follow-ups.

• Numerate and discreet; proficient in managing cap tables, salaries, co-founder agreements, payroll, and banking within established limits.

• Experience utilizing AI daily for research, drafting, analysis, and automation.

• Ability to discern requirements before seeking clarification and review returned work effectively.

• Humble, motivated, and open to constructive feedback.

• Skillful in identifying binding constraints and addressing them.

• Capable of maintaining a sustainable work pace.

• Availability for remote work during UK hours.

• Willingness to spend a week in Jersey each month during the first quarter, transitioning to quarterly visits, plus one annual offsite.

• Submission of a CV or LinkedIn profile.

• Application prompts: Describe something you built, initiated, or resolved independently (up to 300 words); identify your weakest 'who you are' point (one line); provide your location and salary expectations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity participation, allowing you to benefit from the value generated post-joining.

• An outcome-based bonus, awarded based on results achieved.

• Budget allocated for home office setup.

• Learning and development budget.

• Wellbeing budget.

• Paid access to an AI tool stack.

• Flexibility for remote work aligned with UK hours.

• A week in Jersey each month for the first quarter to foster trust and context, followed by quarterly visits.

• One significant offsite meeting annually.

• Emphasis on rest as a design constraint; maintaining pace and allowing work to slow down post-annual reporting period.

• A defined trajectory towards chief of staff within two to three years, eventually progressing to head of operations for the group or a line you helped establish.

• Compensated writing exercise.

• Paid working session on actual anonymized tasks.

• Compensated trial period.