[Hiring] Founders Associate @CivicMarketplace

Role Description

Civic Marketplace is an AI native cooperative procurement platform for US local government. Public procurement is one of the largest, least modernised workflows in the public sector. Our agentic workflows help agencies discover, evaluate and engage suppliers faster, and open public sector opportunities to more businesses.

We are looking for a Founders Associate to work directly with the CEO: taking the company's most important cross functional problems, putting structure around them, and running them to completion with a team eight hours away.

This is a seat at the centre of a company building category defining infrastructure for how government buys. The market is large, under contested and moving fast toward AI. You will see every part of the business, work directly with the founders, investors and our government partners, and own outcomes rather than support someone else who does.

Qualifications

• Three to five years post MBB, or an operator at a Series A to C company who has run a cross functional programme.
• Strategic frameworks you bring into the room unprompted.
• Executive presence: concise, confident, direct.
• A track record of ownership: a programme, launch or deal you ran.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders across time zones.
• Analytical fluency: comfortable building the number yourself in spreadsheets, dashboards and SQL adjacent tools.
• Hands on use of AI tooling in your own work.
• Low ego and high standards: direct, curious, and comfortable being challenged.
• Public sector curiosity; exposure to procurement, cooperative purchasing or regulated B2B markets is a plus.

Requirements

• Own flagship programmes end to end.
• Bring structure to ambiguous questions.
• Run the operating rhythm: leadership syncs, board and investor updates, OKR reviews and the all hands.
• Represent the CEO with partners.
• Build with AI: use Claude, our MCP server and internal agents.

Benefits

• Real ownership from week one, working directly with the CEO and founders.
• Exposure to every part of a Series A company heading into Series B.
• A clear path to a Head of Operations or GM style role as the company scales.
• A small, committed team of thoughtful operators and engineers across the US and UK.
• Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
• Remote first with regular time together, and travel to the US.