Founder's Associate

Your core mission is to protect the CEO’s time and thinking bandwidth by owning the detail, follow-up, modelling and exploratory work beneath current and future-facing ideas.

You turn early-stage thinking into structured decisions, fast experiments or clear no-go conclusions, without slowing the wider business down.

This role exists so the CEO can focus on strategy, capital and impact, while nothing slips underneath.

This is a high-trust, high-standards leverage role. Not a yes-person, not a shadow executive, but a force multiplier.

Make it your mission to make it fun.

Experience in investment, consulting, real estate, corporate strategy or similar high-intensity environments.

Proven experience working closely with senior decision-makers.

Strong analytical and financial modelling capability welcomed, but not essential.

Even if you think you don't meet all of the criteria, please do apply.

You obsess over:
- Clarity from ambiguity: turning half-formed ideas into structured thinking
- High-leverage output: outcomes over activity
- Relentless follow-up: nothing dropped, nothing drifting
- Commercial, mission-driven judgement: balancing impact and financial reality
- Speed from idea to action: reducing friction between thinking and execution

If you are not obsessed with these, this role is not for you.

You excel at:​

• End-to-end ownership: taking workstreams from first question to final decision​
• Exploratory financial modelling: building and adapting models to test early-stage ideas​
• BLUF communication: bottom line up front, concise summary followed by relevant detail​
• Sharp questioning: joining dots quickly and challenging constructively​
• Operating at pace: progressing work without constant prompting or supervision​
• Vibe coding: comfortable leveraging AI tools to rapidly prototype ideas, build lightweight internal tools, and automate workflows to accelerate execution.

90-day wins
Early traction and proof of control.

- CEO time materially protected from research, admin and follow-up
- 100 percent of relevant meetings captured with actions owned, delegated and tracked
- 1 to 3 early-stage ideas researched or modelled to clear progress, test or kill decisions
- Investment team demonstrably freed from speculative or exploratory work
- At least one initiative delivered end-to-end without CEO micromanagement

These outcomes are bonus-linked and reviewed monthly.

You are accountable for:
- Early-stage research and exploratory modelling
- Meeting preparation, action capture and structured follow-through
- Delegating and tracking actions across internal and external stakeholders
- Owning CEO-adjacent project workstreams

You are not accountable for:
- Platform P&L ownership
- People management
- Culture leadership
- Brand or marketing direction
- Operational process design across platforms

- This is a high-leverage launchpad role.
- There is no fixed progression path, which is deliberate.
- If you crush this role, you will outgrow it.
- Strong performance can lead into multiple areas of the business including investment, development, capital, operations or platform leadership.
- Progression is not time-based. It is impact-based.
- As you demonstrate sustained leverage, ownership and judgement, we will work with you to identify where your strengths and interests align across the Group