Founders Associate in London

Founder’s Associate – Early-Career Role (AI & Compliance)

📍 Location: Central London, (Primarily office-based)

💰 Salary: £35,000 – £50,000 + Equity

🕒 Start Date: ASAP

About the Opportunity

I’m hiring for a Founder’s Associate to join an early-stage AI company transforming a large, complex certification and compliance space using AI-native, agentic systems.

You’ll work directly with the founders as a true force multiplier across strategy, operations, product and commercial work. This is a brilliant opportunity for a top Russell Group graduate with internship experience or 1–2 years in a demanding environment who wants high ownership, steep learning, and exposure to how an AI start-up is really built.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll be the “go-to” person for high-priority, often ambiguous projects, helping turn ideas into reality:

Founder Support & Special Projects

• Work closely with the founders on high-impact strategic and operational projects
• Turn vision into clear plans, timelines and measurable outcomes
• Take on “zero-to-one” projects that don’t yet sit with any team

Strategy, Operations & Execution

• Build simple dashboards, reports and frameworks to track product, sales and operations
• Improve internal processes, tooling and workflows as the company scales
• Own projects end-to-end – from problem definition through to delivered result

Product, Customer & Go-To-Market Support

• Support early customer calls, discovery, demos and feedback sessions
• Help structure complex customer workflows and requirements into clear problem statements
• Work with engineering to translate real-world needs into concise product specs

Investor, Board & External Comms

• Contribute to investor updates, board materials and fundraising decks
• Support market research, competitor mapping and strategic positioning
• Help create clear, punchy materials (decks, one-pagers, case studies) for external stakeholders

What We’re Looking For

Education

• Degree from a Russell Group university in any rigorous discipline (e.g. Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, PPE, Maths, Natural Sciences, Management, etc.)

Experience

• Strong internships and/or up to 1–2 years’ experience in a demanding environment such as:
• Management consulting
• High-growth start-up or scale-up
• Founder’s office / strategy / operations / product / VC / analytics
• Comfortable working with both qualitative and quantitative information

Skills & Mindset

• Excellent structured thinking – you can break messy problems into clear steps
• Strong communication and slide-building skills (PowerPoint / Google Slides)
• Confident with numbers and basic analysis (Excel / Google Sheets)
• Tech-curious and excited by AI, data and automation (you don’t need to be an engineer)
• High ownership: you enjoy being trusted with important problems and driving them to completion
• Bias to action: you move quickly, iterate and care about outcomes over theatrics

Personal Qualities

• Comfortable working closely with senior people and contributing your own views
• Low ego, collaborative, and happy to do whatever is needed – from strategy decks to hands-on ops
• Thrives in early-stage ambiguity – you like bringing structure where none exists yet

Why This Role Stands Out

💡 Founder-Level Exposure: Work side-by-side with the founders on the company’s most important questions and projects.

🚀 Steep Learning Curve: See the full picture of an AI start-up – product, go-to-market, operations, fundraising and more.

🌍 Meaningful Space: Help modernise a critical global compliance industry using AI-native, agentic systems.

🎯 Generalist Career Platform: Build a rare, full-stack operator skill set – ideal for future founders, operators, product leaders or senior business leaders.

💼 Compensation & Ownership: £35,000 – £50,000 base salary plus equity, with real scope to grow as the company scales.

How to Apply

If you’re a top Russell Group graduate with strong internships or up to 1–2 years’ experience, and you want to work directly with founders in a high-ownership AI environment, I’d love to hear from you.

👉 Please apply with your CV. A member of the team will be in touch to discuss the next steps.