Founder's Associate (£55k - 65k) in City of London

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About Alknoma: Alknoma is building Ayven, an agentic problem solver that helps teams work together more effectively. Designed for real operational use, it supports collaboration, streamlines decision-making, and gives teams a practical way to move faster with greater clarity.

The Role: We’re hiring a Founders Associate with the breadth of a senior generalist and the judgement to operate close to the founders. This is a high-trust role with real ownership across priorities, requiring someone who can move between GTM, product, and operations without needing constant direction. You’ll represent Ayven at selected events, work directly with customers and prospects, and feed those conversations into product and go-to-market decisions. The remit is practical and commercially grounded: learn quickly, spot patterns, and help shape what we build and how we take it to market.

Where this goes: Over time, the role will develop into one of two clear paths, shaped by your strengths and by what the business needs most.

• Go-to-market: owning prospecting, sales support, customer acquisition, and revenue operations with increasing responsibility.
• Product and strategy: supporting roadmap decisions, feature development, and product-led growth initiatives with strong commercial context.

You’ll work across both before the role naturally leans toward the area where you can create the most value.

Who we’re looking for: We’re looking for someone who can operate independently, think commercially, and turn ambiguity into progress. The strongest candidates will have a record of building, shipping, and improving things without needing a tightly defined brief, while still working with discipline and accountability. You’ve built and shipped something that had measurable impact. You use AI tools and other modern systems to work faster and make better decisions, and you know how to translate effort into outcomes rather than activity. You’ve owned a GTM motion at a startup, or worked close enough to one to understand how customer acquisition, positioning, and execution come together. Experience in dev ops, sales ops, or operations more broadly is also highly appreciated. You bring consulting experience or other relevant backgrounds that show structured problem-solving, sound judgment, and the ability to turn ambiguity into action. We welcome candidates from strategy, operations, finance, product, startups, or similar environments where they have built a strong analytical toolkit and delivered with rigor.

Who this isn’t for: If you need your role tightly defined before you start, prefer to advise rather than execute, or are not comfortable with pace, ambiguity, and direct accountability, this probably won’t be the right fit.

What you get: Meaningful early-stage equity with the opportunity to share directly in the upside if we execute well. Direct access to the founders and regular exposure to the decisions that matter most to the business. Fast decision-making, with clear ownership and short feedback loops. £400 per month AI and productivity tools budget.