[Hiring] Founder's Associate @Riplo

Role Description

The Founders Associate role is the founders' force multiplier. You'll work directly alongside our two co-founders and the Chief of Staff across every dimension of building the company:

• Fundraising
• Hiring
• Partnerships
• Go-to-market
• Investor relations
• Operations
• Whatever else shows up tomorrow

There is no fixed job description because the job changes every week. What stays constant: you're in the room for every critical decision, and you co-own the execution that follows.

Qualifications

• 0–4 years in a high-intensity environment: top-tier consulting, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or an early-stage startup. Exceptional recent graduates welcome.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving instincts.
• Sharp written and verbal communication.
• Extreme ownership.
• High comfort with ambiguity and context-switching.
• Fluency with modern AI tools.
• Fluent English.

Requirements

• Fundraising and investor relations: End-to-end process support including deck iterations, data room, investor pipeline, due diligence coordination.
• Hiring and talent operations: Source, screen, and close candidates across engineering, product, and commercial roles.
• Strategic research: Market sizing, competitive landscapes, partnership opportunities, pricing models. Synthesize complexity into recommendations the founders can act on.
• Partnerships and BD: Identify and qualify integration, channel, and technology partners. Support early deal structuring.
• GTM scaffolding: ICP definition, target account lists, sales collateral, and the operational scaffolding for Riplo's first commercial motions.
• Operations and AI-first company building: Systems, legal, finance, vendor management, and the hundred other things that have no owner yet.

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus meaningful equity.
• A front-row seat to the AI revolution with your hands on the wheel.
• Direct daily access to founders who've built and backed category-defining companies.
• More context, responsibility, and direct impact than people with far more senior titles at larger companies.

Location

London is the primary base. Remote is possible only for exceptional talent.