Founders Associate
Core
Serve as the right hand and force multiplier for the founding team to accelerate the company's 0 to 1 trajectory by handling operations, strategy, and logistics.
Role type
Founders Associate (Operations & Strategy)
Builds
Internal rituals, communication channels, operations infrastructure, and working systems from scratch for a fast-growing distributed team.
Domain
Early-stage startup operations and strategic execution
Required skills
Operations management, strategic problem-solving, logistics coordination, cross-functional project ownership, rapid context-switching, travel management, procurement coordination, system building from first principles
Preferred skills
Prior founder experience, adaptability to irregular hours, low-ego high-agency mindset
Technologies
None explicitly stated
Responsibilities
Serve as the central point of leverage for founders to clear operational friction; tackle tasks across the full spectrum of operations from procurement to team logistics; build internal rituals and operations infrastructure; rapidly pivot between high-level strategy and tactical tasks; travel with founders for investor meetings and strategic offsites; own high-priority cross-functional initiatives end-to-end
