Founder's Associate | Early-stage business
London, 4 days office
Salary - open (DOE), looking for junior to mid level
We're working with an ambitious founder who has a proven track record of building and scaling successful consumer businesses, with multiple ventures established and two successful exits. Their latest business has achieved significant international growth, generated billions of social media views, and secured retail distribution with major global retailers.
Now, they're turning their attention to an exciting new venture and they're looking for an exceptional individual to join at the very beginning.
No two days will look the same. You'll need to be comfortable switching between strategic thinking, detailed analysis, customer conversations and practical execution.
A bit about the role
- Research unfamiliar markets, understand emerging trends and uncover potential business ideas.
- Take ideas from a blank sheet of paper and develop them into commercially viable concepts.
- Analyse business models, pricing, margins, customer acquisition costs, revenue potential and profitability.
- Get out into the market, speak to customers and commercial partners, test assumptions and use real-world feedback to shape decisions.
- Assess opportunities, challenge assumptions and make clear, commercially grounded recommendations.
- Turn ideas into experiments, test what works and learn fast rather than spending months planning.
- Help prioritise opportunities, solve ambiguous problems and make decisions that shape the direction of the business.
- Take ownership of projects from initial research through to execution, getting involved in whatever is needed to move things forward.
A bit about you
- You naturally want to understand how businesses make money, who their customers are, what those customers are worth and where the biggest commercial opportunities lie.
- You enjoy starting with a blank sheet of paper, exploring possibilities and turning vague ideas into tangible opportunities. You're more excited by creating something new than simply maintaining an existing operation.
- You're comfortable getting to grips with unfamiliar markets, assessing business models and thinking about pricing, margins, ROI, customer acquisition and P&L.
- You understand the importance of speaking to customers early, testing assumptions and adapting your thinking based on what you learn.
- You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, identifying what really matters and changing direction when the evidence points elsewhere.
- You can take an ambiguous problem, work through it independently and come back with a clear recommendation rather than simply presenting more questions.
- You take responsibility for outcomes and think about the bigger picture: the customer, the product, the revenue, the costs and whether an idea genuinely deserves to become a business.
- You might have built a side project, launched a business, spotted an opportunity at work or taken ownership of a problem nobody else had figured out.
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Founder's Associate employer: Sphere Digital Recruitment
Join a dynamic global technology company in Egham, Surrey, where innovation meets opportunity. As a Senior Financial Accountant, you'll thrive in a collaborative hybrid work environment that values creativity and process improvement, while working alongside industry leaders like Google and Amazon. With a strong focus on employee growth and development, this role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact within a supportive team culture, ensuring your contributions are recognised and rewarded.
Contact Details:
Sphere Digital Recruitment Recruitment Team
