Founder's Associate

We’re building the last piece of the puzzle to help companies unlock AI code generation - the part that makes it actually safe to ship. AI is enabling engineers to write code faster than ever before. But software review and testing hasn’t caught up. Engineering leaders are drowning in long software review cycles and more bugs than ever. The bottleneck isn’t writing code anymore - it’s everything that comes after it. We spent 3 years building patented foundational technology to solve this. Since then, we’ve grown 5x year-on-year and now work with some of the most AI-driven engineering teams in the world – Notion, ElevenLabs, Dropbox, Discord, LaunchDarkly, Wiz, CoreWeave, Wealthsimple, and more, and are backed by the same investors behind Twilio, Twitch, Intercom and PagerDuty. Individual investors include the founders of Vercel, Datadog, Segment, Dropbox, the CTO of GitHub, CPO of Adobe, head of engineering at Cursor and many more. Our mission is to radically accelerate the pace of software development by empowering every engineer to ship at the speed their agents write code. This is an opportunity to join a company going through hypergrowth as we scale from millions of annual recurring revenue to $100m ARR. If this excites you, come help us build it!

What is the opportunity? Join Meticulous as our Founder's Associate, where you’ll work closely with the CEO and play a key role in supporting the day-to-day running of the business. This is a unique opportunity to work across a range of functions – from customer success to internal operations – and gain firsthand exposure to what it takes to scale a high-growth startup. We’re looking for a smart generalist who’s excited to get stuck in, learn quickly, and take on increasing responsibility over time. If you’re hungry to build, solve problems, and grow fast in your career, we’d love to hear from you.

Examples of projects you will work on:

• Customer & sales operations: Build the best internal processes and systems to enable GTM to run faster, including improving our customer database, usage data and revops visibility.
• Finance: Improve and own systems around account payable, account receivable, payroll and accounting.
• People & team: Coordinate interviews, support hiring and create onboarding and offboarding processes, improve internal documentation and own company offsites and events.
• Environment: Be the head of environment: make our office the best environment to be in!

You will love this role if:

• You learn fast and can context switch – you have strong analytical thinking and can work from first principles; ambiguity or lack of experience in a domain doesn’t faze you.
• You are highly agentic – you have a bias to action, move fast, take ownership without being asked, and get genuinely frustrated when things stall.
• You are Meticulous – you are reliable, detail-oriented and thorough.
• You want to roll up your sleeves – you enjoy producing the output, not delegating out.
• You are highly organised – you live your life in Notion and Google sheets and love planning/organising systems!

This role is not for you if:

• You expect to work regular working hours and never to travel; our teams, customers, investors span SF, London, NY and you may occasionally be expected to travel.
• You need a structured environment, clear handoffs, or someone to model the work for you.
• You’re a strategist looking to delegate the hard work to someone else.
• You take it personally when work you've invested in gets deprioritized or redirected abruptly.

Requirements:

• At least 1 year of work experience in a fast paced environment (early stage startup, hypergrowth scaleup, MBB consulting, FAANG, Tier 1 bank or similar foundation).
• Bonus if you’ve been an early employee (at a tech startup or have a STEM degree from a Tier 1 university).

You may look like this:

• Growth / Generalist problem solver: You are currently a founder’s associate or work at an early stage startup or VC fund or MBB consulting and want more ownership.
• Builder: You are an ex-founder, have started something from scratch whether in uni or as a side hustle (can be a community, a blog, an app), or been part of an incubator (YC, EF, Antler).

Unlimited food & drinks in office – including daily lunch as a team, and your own Amazon business account to buy whatever snacks you want for the office. A setup you’ll love – everyone has a standing desk, brand new Macbook, your choice of ergonomic peripherals, and a £2k WFH budget to make home just as good. £300 monthly wellness stipend – Third Space gym, reformer pilates, cold plunge, however you want to keep your best. We celebrate you – £400 in gifts on your birthday and work anniversary every year. Team offsites – we work and play hard, we’ve done offsites in Italy, Abu Dhabi and local 5-star resorts. Unlimited book budget – we have a growing in-office library and actively encourage everyone to add to it, whether you want to ramp up your knowledge of software testing, or become a better startup operator! In-person, 4 days a week – at our office in Shoreditch + many more!

People behind Meticulous: Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel), Jason Warner (CTO of GitHub), Calvin French-Owen (founder of Segment), Jared Friedman (YC partner and founder of Scribd), Scott Belsky (CPO of Adobe), Arash Ferdowsi (founder of Dropbox) and many others are all personal investors in Meticulous.