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Founders Associate partnering with Civic Marketplace’s CEO to run cross-functional priorities. Building AI-enabled workflows for a US local-government procurement platform.
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with the CEO on the company's most important cross-functional problems
- Own two or three company priorities per quarter end to end
- Lead flagship programmes such as solicitation sourcing with a cooperative partner
- Design processes and AI tooling and run programmes through to outcomes
- Turn ambiguous questions from the CEO, board or partners into framed problems, options and recommendations
- Run leadership syncs, board and investor updates, OKR reviews and all-hands meetings
- Represent the CEO with procurement directors, cooperative executives and investors
- Build with Claude, the MCP server and internal agents
- Open workstreams during the UK morning and run them with the US team through their day
Requirements:
- Three to five years post MBB, or experience as an operator at a Series A to C company who has run a cross functional programme
- Experience owning work from brief to result without a handover
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems, form hypotheses and propose tests independently
- Executive presence with senior public sector or investor audiences
- Track record of owning a programme, launch or deal end to end
- Experience working with senior stakeholders across time zones
- Analytical fluency with spreadsheets, dashboards and SQL-adjacent tools
- Hands-on use of AI tooling, including agents, MCP and prompt-driven workflows
- Low ego and high standards; direct, curious and comfortable being challenged
- Public sector curiosity; prior government experience not required
- Exposure to procurement, cooperative purchasing or regulated B2B markets is a plus
- Ability to work from London with daily overlap into US Central hours and regular travel to Texas
- Authorization to work in the United States is assessed in the application form
- Willingness to undergo a background check
Benefits:
- Meaningful equity
- Remote first with regular time together
- Travel to the US
- Real ownership from week one, working directly with the CEO and founders
- Exposure to product, commercial, partnerships, fundraising and board
- Clear path to a Head of Operations or GM style role
- Small, committed team of operators and engineers across the US and UK
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