Founder’s Associate
Location: London
Working pattern: Full-time, office-based 5 days per week in office
Salary: £60,000 – £80,000 + equity
Start date: ASAP
About the Opportunity
We are working with a high-growth, founder-led business that has rapidly scaled into one of the UK’s leading career platforms for international students.
The company helps international students in the UK secure graduate and professional roles, with hundreds of successful placements across leading employers. The business has grown quickly through strong organic content, community-led acquisition and a highly hands-on founder-led operating model.
The company is now entering its next phase of growth and is looking for a Founder’s Associate to work directly with the CEO across strategy, operations, growth, sales and systems.
The Role
This is a highly dynamic, hands-on role working directly with the CEO. There is no fixed narrow scope — you will focus on the company’s most important priorities, bottlenecks and growth opportunities at any given time.
You will help turn founder priorities into structured execution, build systems and processes, support commercial growth, improve operational discipline and work cross-functionally across the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Own strategic and operational projects end-to-end.
- Identify bottlenecks across the business and implement practical solutions.
- Build systems, dashboards, SOPs and processes that reduce founder dependency.
- Work across sales, marketing, operations and student/customer support.
- Support growth initiatives, conversion improvements and revenue predictability.
- Improve internal workflows, reporting and team accountability.
- Help translate ideas from the founder into clear actions, owners and timelines.
- Fight fires quickly and proactively before they become bigger issues.
- Support cross-functional execution across a fast-moving, high-performance environment.
What We’re Looking For
- 1–5 years’ experience in a fast-paced startup, scale-up, consulting, founder’s office, strategy, operations, growth or commercial role.
- Strong evidence of ownership and proactivity.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity with shifting priorities.
- Strong structured thinking and problem-solving ability.
- Ability to move quickly and execute without constant direction.
- Experience building systems, processes, dashboards or workflows.
- Commercial awareness and interest in growth, revenue and customer outcomes.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- High attention to detail and high personal standards.
- Comfortable working closely with a demanding founder/CEO.
This Role Suits Someone Who
- Enjoys fast-moving, founder-led environments.
- Likes solving messy business problems.
- Takes initiative before being asked.
- Can switch between strategy and execution.
- Wants broad exposure across the entire business.
- Is comfortable with high standards, pace and direct feedback.
- Cares about building something meaningful and commercially successful.
This Role Is Not For Someone Who
- Wants a predictable 9–5 role.
- Needs constant direction or a fixed job description.
- Only wants strategy without execution.
- Is uncomfortable with sales, growth, operations or customer-facing work.
- Prefers slow, highly structured corporate environments.
If you are serious, please send your CV to crozero@hirehouse.co.uk along with why you are right for the role
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