Founder's Associate (AI)

Location: Remote from the United Kingdom, South Africa, Jersey, or any location, working UK hours. A week in Jersey each month is required during the first quarter, then quarterly, plus one annual offsite.

Company

Founder-led group of B2B software companies focused on private wealth and governance, including FATCA and CRS compliance automation, board governance automation, a stealth venture, and a media strategy company.

What you will do

• Run the founder's operating rhythm, including daily check-ins, weekly business reviews, updates, and decision logs.
• Own cross-group workstreams such as funding mechanics, alliance agreements, pricing improvements, and specialist pools from initial discussion through execution.
• Prepare one-page decision memos with options, recommendations, and deadlines, and curate what reaches the founder.
• Close follow-ups across co-founders, investors, advisers, legal counsel, company secretaries, and candidates.
• Run hiring with the recruiter, including scorecards, interviews, references, trials, and onboarding.
• Manage operating administration such as payroll, banking within limits, tools, and filing calendars until ownership is documented and transferred.

Requirements

• Exceptional writing ability, including turning complex conversations into concise one-page recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to close loops across people who do not report to you.
• Comfort working with senior stakeholders and exercising delegated authority.
• Numeracy, discretion, and the ability to handle cap tables, salaries, payroll, and banking within defined limits.
• Daily practical use of AI for research, drafting, analysis, and automation, with the ability to verify AI output.
• Availability to work UK hours and attend Jersey in person during the required periods.

Nice to have

• Experience working with founders, co-founders, investors, advisers, or executive offices.
• Experience leading senior hiring processes and operational workstreams.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity participation and an outcomes-based bonus.
• Remote work with UK-hour alignment and periodic Jersey travel.
• Home office, learning, wellbeing, and AI tool budgets.
• Sustainable working pace, with reduced intensity after the annual reporting crunch.
• Written progression path toward chief of staff and later head of operations or a new group line.

Hiring process

• Short paid writing exercise and paid working session using anonymised real tasks.
• Conversations with the founder and a co-founder, followed by references, including one reference selected with permission.
• Paid trial, followed by an offer with a mutually agreed sixty-day outcome review.