Founders Associate

Required

• You are three to five years post MBB, or an operator at a Series A to C company who has run a cross functional programme. You have owned something from brief to result without a handover, and you want more of that, not a stepping stone toward it.
• You likely have:
• Strategic frameworks you bring into the room unprompted: given an ambiguous problem you structure it, form hypotheses and propose how to test them without being led there.
• Executive presence: concise, confident, direct, and able to hold a room with senior public sector or investor audiences.
• A track record of ownership: a programme, launch or deal you ran where you set the plan, made the calls and carried the outcome.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders across time zones, and a clear method for keeping work moving while you are asleep.
• Analytical fluency: comfortable building the number yourself in spreadsheets, dashboards and SQL adjacent tools.
• Hands on use of AI tooling in your own work: agents, MCP, prompt driven workflows.
• Low ego and high standards: direct, curious, and comfortable being challenged.
• Public sector curiosity. No prior government experience required; exposure to procurement, cooperative purchasing or regulated B2B markets is a plus.
• What's in it for You
• Real ownership from week one, working directly with the CEO and founders.