Founder's Associate

Murphy AI; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary at top of benchmark

Equity with upside potential

Real ownership by strategy drive

Small team, high autonomy

Direct attention from founding team

Job summary

Murphy AI is seeking a Founder's Associate to work directly with the founders on high-impact bets, new processes, and organizational transformation. You will own outcomes end to end, shaping markets, models, and operations across the company.

The role offers a hands-on launchpad to run a function, a market, or your own initiative. As a fast-growing startup, Murphy AI emphasizes real ownership, high autonomy, and outsized impact.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and creative generalist capable of handling hard problems
• Owns outcomes with high quality under speed
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Run high-stakes special projects: fundraising, competitive teardown, key hires
• Conduct research shaping company direction: markets, competitors, regulation
• Turn strategy into shipped reality from thesis to live operation
• Fix bottlenecks in operations to enable growth
• Dive deep to solve root causes and design elegant solutions

Skills

Analytical thinking

Generalist

Execution focus

Strategic mindset

Education

Top university graduate

Job description

Murphy AI deploys voice AI agents that help banks collect debt. We’ve built a fully-fledged platform designed to optimize recovery rates while maintaining respectful and personalized communication. Our advanced automation streamlines the process of collecting overdue invoices for banks and other industries, providing a seamless and effective solution.

Our AI-powered agents adapt instantly, engaging with debtors across channels like voice, messengers, email and sms to maximize results while preserving trust. By combining advanced artificial intelligence with powerful automation, we’re setting a new standard for how businesses recover payments.

As a fast-growing startup that has already made an impact within less than a year in the market, we are building a talented team to scale our operations and drive our vision forward.

About The Role

We're looking for a Founder's Associate to work directly alongside the founders on whatever matters most — the next strategic bet, new business process or org transformation. One week it’s sizing a new market; the next it’s building a financial model or running the research that settles a decision. This isn’t a support role — you own real outcomes end to end. It’s a founder’s right hand across the whole company, with outsized leverage over where it goes — and the classic launchpad to running a function, a market, or your own thing.

Murphy builds AI voice agents that collect overdue debt for banks: more recovered, faster, cheaper, fully compliant, and respectful to the debtor. We’re live with Santander, Revolut, BBVA and dozens others. We’ve proven the product in large-scale pilots with top-tier banks — now we’re scaling fast across markets and new businesses, and the founders need a right hand to take on the highest-leverage problem in front of us, whatever it is that week.

What you'll do

• Run the high-stakes special projects. The fundraise, the competitive teardown, the make-or-break bank deal, the key hire — the things that need a founder's judgment and a builder's follow-through.
• Do the research that shapes where the company goes. Markets, competitors, regulation, new opportunities — dig in and bring back the answer.
• Turn strategy into shipped reality. Take a bet from thesis and sizing — a new country, a new business — to live and working.
• Get hands-on with operations. Ruthlessly fix bottlenecks that prevent company from growing.
• Dive deep and problem solve. Get to the root of complex, ambiguous problems and design solutions that solve the root cause elegantly.

Who you are

• A highly analytical and creative generalist. You can point to hard problems you've solved elegantly and executed on fast.
• You own outcomes, and you never settle. You turn ambiguity into a clear plan and hold a high quality bar under speed.
• You were top of your class at a top university. You have the philosophy of a champion — competitive, used to being second to no one, with impeccable execution.
• You're obsessed with solving hard problems. It's your hobby, not just your work — and you've won STEM olympiads or competitions to prove it.
• AI-native, ruthless on quality. You reach for AI to automate and streamline by default — more productive than a team of 12. But you know exactly where AI gets sloppy, you never let it through, and you control quality rigorously.
• You don't need any work experience. You want the best springboard there is — learning from top talent, with real ownership, at the frontier of one of the hottest markets in AI.

What we offer

• Salary at the top of the benchmark.
• Fair equity with enormous upside potential.
• Real Ownership - Murphy's strategy is yours to drive.
• Small team, high autonomy, and outsized impact.
• The founding team's direct attention, and a category with a $300B+ industry behind it.

Hybrid & Flexible

Our default setup is hybrid – 3 days a week at our office, and 2 days of remote work.

Our Process

1. First Interview – Getting to Know You

   A conversation with a future teammate who’s excited to find a new colleague. We’ll talk about your story, what drives you, and what you’re looking for next—no trick questions, just a genuine exchange.

2. Second Interview – Deep Dive

   You’ll meet the Hiring Manager and potentially another team member. This is a more technical discussion where we explore your skills in detail, walk through real scenarios, and answer any questions you might have about the role.

3. Tech Assessment or Business Case

   A practical exercise to see how you approach challenges similar to those you’d tackle at Murphy. You’ll have time to reflect and showcase your thinking—no rush, no surprises.

4. Call with the Founders

   Our founders meet every team member and it’s a great opportunity for you to learn about the company and its direction.

To learn more about how we hire and what to expect at every step, feel free to explore our Hiring Guide!

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone, regardless of background, identity, or experience, feels valued and empowered to thrive. We believe that different perspectives drive innovation and success, and we actively foster an environment where all voices are heard and respected.