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Job Opportunity: Founder’s Associate
We are seeking a contractor or freelancer to provide Founder’s Associate services to our Founder and CEO, outside of IR35. The work will be conducted fully remote and will feature support across GMT, EST, and PST time zones asynchronously. Applicants from the UK, EU and US geographies welcome.
Please see the Notion page version of this job advert here.
What is this Founder’s Associate role all about?
Growing and scaling a business is hard. It’s a process full of problems, pains, and the need to do more with less. We know this. At Oppero, these are often the factors that mean we can help founders with their growth problems.
With growth comes opportunity, and Oppero has just that. We're now looking for someone to join the team as a Founder's Associate, working directly alongside our Founder & CEO, Chelsea Seeds, and partnering with our existing Founder’s Associate, Lovisa.
And we want someone who loves to solve the kind of problems that businesses have to get through to succeed.
We need a force multiplier for our Founder/ CEO and the team. Someone who can help us deliver on a broader scale.
Sure, this person may help with some light admin duties, but a better description would be that this person operates like another founder across our portfolio, enabling Oppero to grow and achieve its ambitious growth targets over the next year.
For this seat, we're looking for someone who also brings some growth experience. You've spent time hands on experimenting with a variety of growth channels - you’ve run experiments, seen what works, and aren’t precious about killing what doesn’t. You’re also comfortable picking up delivery across our portfolio companies without needing anything explained twice.
A lot of this job is building the plane while flying it - you’ll regularly face problems where the path isn’t obvious, and you’ll need to figure it out. If that excites you rather than scares you, keep reading.
Values:
We believe that behaviours are often a reflection of values, and so here are the values that our founder is looking for in the person who will sit in the FA seat.
- A growth mindset - You believe that growth is a vital part of any role or company, and can demonstrate why and how this is important to you.
- A sense of purpose and urgency - You take pride in good work delivered, and tackle each problem with engagement and speed.
- Strong interpersonal integrity and discipline - You want to be known as the person who does what they say they will, when they say they will. You hit deadlines, know when you can’t, and proactively communicate to avoid mismatched expectations.
- Transparency and accountability - You want to have all of the context and be across all of the information because you want to own your successes and failures.
- Resilient and optimistic - Problems and setbacks are a part of the game for you, and you are confident enough in your identity to be able to roll with almost anything that may come up with our portfolio companies.
- Respectful and humble - You do not focus on who is right, and can change your position and view as you gain new insight, as well as being able to have the difficult conversations in an adult manner.
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If you read this and think “people who know me describe me exactly like this”, then read on for the details of the work below.
What will the work involve?
This is not your standard transactional role, where you have a typical day-to-day, so explaining the role honestly is a tough thing to do.
To give you an idea of what you can expect, imagine that in a year, when we are talking about how much of a great addition to the team you have been, we will be discussing:
- How you will have brought energy to Oppero, and be sitting on a bank of having got things done.
- Many of your days will have been spent jumping between a pre-revenue AI startup and a Series A fintech company on the same day, and alongside our Founder & CEO and the wider team, you will have been able to add value to both businesses.
- You will have built out how we track and measure growth experiments across our portfolio companies - what's running, what's working, what to kill - so we're not guessing, we're learning.
- You will have been through several “hairy” moments with our portfolio companies and their businesses, and got through it all with a sense of enjoyment and real engagement. Everyone in the team will talk at length about your ability to crack on in tough times without complaint.
- You will have got hands-on with the tools our portfolio companies use - analytics platforms, CRMs, ad managers, outbound tools and be comfortable jumping between them without needing a tutorial, think: Notion, Slack, Customer.io, Mixpanel, Hubspot, Salesforce to name a few.
- You will have run growth experiments across our portfolio companies - testing channels, trying angles, measuring what worked, and cutting what didn't. Some of those experiments will have become repeatable playbooks we now use across multiple companies.
- The team will speak of you as someone who takes initiative and gets things done without having to be chased or delegated to. They will also be impressed (and tell you they are) at how easily you can context switch between our different portfolio companies.
- Our Founder & CEO talks about the times she gave you a half-baked idea, and was blown away to see how you ran with it, fleshed it out, and became a key part of the process.
- You will have embedded yourself into different teams, whether that's one of our portfolio companies or one of Oppero's own ventures, jumping on their calls, understanding their problems, and being treated as one of their own. You adapt to how each team works rather than forcing your own way.
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What does the role provide?
- The freedom to deliver the work wherever you want (must cover timezones above still)
- The chance to work closely with our Founder & CEO and the team, learning and being involved in everything that is required to run multiple software companies.
- The chance to work on growth, marketing and everything in between across our portfolio companies, solving different problems, in different ways, all in the software space.
- You own your work end to end. No 6-week approval chains. You come up with the experiment, you run it, you see the result.
- Compressed learning. You're not learning one business over 3 years. You're learning multiple businesses simultaneously at different stages. That's career acceleration you can't get anywhere else.
- Small team, no politics. No layers between you and the founder.
- You'll see what actually works across businesses, not just one. Most people only ever know if something works in their company. You’ll see patterns across a portfolio, what works for a pre-revenue startup vs a Series A. That's rare experience.
- Team meet-ups around the world. We work remote, but a few times a year we get together wherever makes sense. Last one was in Rome; the next one's up for debate 👀
How do I apply?
Very simply. Email your CV along with an introduction to recruitment@oppero.co.uk. Please do not click easy apply.
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