You will work closely with the Founder-CEO as the person he hands the hardest, least-defined problems to
trusting you to run them to ground and come back with an answer or an outcome.
One week you’re building the financial model that goes to the board; the next you’re standing up a new operational process, running a hiring search, or writing the memo that decides which market we enter next.
Your mission is simple to state and hard to do: take work off the founder’s plate and make the company move faster.
You will multiply the Founder-CEO across strategy, operations, finance, and hiring, spotting what’s falling through the cracks, owning it end-to-end, and either fixing it yourself or building the process (or hire) that fixes it for good.
This is a hands-on, high-trust, high-ownership seat in a startup. You’ll work directly alongside the Founder-CEO, learn the business from every angle, and use AI tools (including Claude) to out-work and out-analyse teams many times your size.

2-4 years at a top-tier strategy consultancy or top investment bank. This is the profile we’re hiring for.
Exceptional analytical horsepower: You build clean, defensible financial models and business cases, and you’re fluent in a spreadsheet.
Structured problem-solver: You break an ambiguous problem into parts, get to the “so what”, and come back with a recommendation, not just analysis.
Outstanding communication: You write a crisp memo and hold your own in a room; you can make a complex thing simple.
High agency & ownership: You take a problem and run with it. You’d rather ask forgiveness than permission, and you close the loop every time.
Bias to action over polish: You move fast, ship the 80%, and iterate. Analysis paralysis is a dealbreaker.
AI-native & tech-comfortable: You already use AI tools to work faster, and you’re excited to build with them, not just consume them.
Thrives in ambiguity: High-energy, low-ego, comfortable with a fast pace and shifting priorities.

Bonus Points (Nice to Have):

Startup, scale-up, or founder-adjacent experience (chief-of-staff, founder’s associate, ops, VC/PE)
Exposure to e-commerce, logistics, supply chain, or marketplaces
Hands-on with modern AI tooling (Claude, ChatGPT, automation platforms) beyond chatting
A strong academic record from a leading university
A side project, company, or something you built and shipped yourself

A front-row apprenticeship in company-building, working directly with a Founder-CEO (ex-Bain, ex-JPMorgan, ex-Amazon Logistics)
Real ownership and unusually fast scope: the ceiling on this role is set by what you can deliver, not your years of experience
A credible path into a leadership seat as the company scales
An entrepreneurial, fast-paced, AI-native, and genuinely fun place to work
We are a remote-first company and meet in person a couple of times a month.
25 holidays + 8 bank holidays
Mental health support through Spill, and a free Headspace subscription.

Founders Associate

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