Founder s Associate (Performance & Operations)

Euclid Protocol; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 190,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Token equity

Job summary

Euclid Protocol, based in Dubai, seeks a Founder’s Associate for Performance & Operations to own the company’s performance system and KPI tracking. You will report directly to the CEO, coordinating commitments across leadership, partnerships, and hiring, while driving accountability with data-driven processes.

You will establish dashboards, cadence, and incentives, building a scalable operating framework from day one to support rapid growth in a crypto/fintech environment.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years in operations, strategy, or founder's office in startups or consulting.
• Strong analytical capabilities and data-driven mindset.
• Fluent in advanced spreadsheets; SQL or BI tool experience is a plus.
• Process-minded with excellent follow-through and communication.

Responsibilities

• Run the operating cadence: weekly KPI check-ins, monthly reviews, quarterly goals.
• Own the performance system: define KPIs, track commitments, report to CEO.
• Build dashboards and templates to simplify coordination for a small team.
• Monitor KPI achievement, flag slippage, propose fixes with CEO.
• Manage incentives: salary benchmarks, token equity policies, and raises.
• Track competitors, market moves, and industry briefs for leadership.
• Handle special projects from the CEO and close them out.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Advanced spreadsheets

Clear concise writing

Relentless follow-through

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

SQL

BI tools

Notion

HubSpot

Attio

Job description

Founder s Associate Performance amp Operations

- Dubai UAE Based Operations UAE Full-time AED 17 000 20 000 month bonus amp token equity

About the Role

About Euclid Euclid is a universal financial engine that uses distributed decentralized technology to create markets across 50 chains and let trading happen cross-chain without the need to bridge or use solvers

The role

You ll sit next to the CEO and make sure that what we commit to actually gets done You ll own the company s performance system who is doing what against which goal by when and whether it s working You ll chase follow-ups close loops and push things forward relentlessly but with charm You ll be the person who always knows where every deal hire partner and KPI stands This role is separate from HR and recruiting It reports straight to the CEO and it s built for a generalist who thinks in processes and data

What you ll do

• Run the operating cadence Run weekly team KPI check-ins monthly business reviews and quarterly goal setting and prepare the CEO s agenda and pre-reads for each Track every commitment made in leadership partner and investor meetings then chase owners until each one is done or deliberately dropped Keep a single live tracker of company priorities partnerships exchange and chain integrations and hiring so the CEO never has to ask where are we on this
• Build and run the performance system Set up our talent framework and run review cycles kick off reviews chase managers gather feedback analyse the results and present a clear report Build the tools templates and dashboards that make all of this lightweight for a small fast team
• Be quality control for KPIs Make sure every team sets KPIs and check that each one is measurable ambitious and actually tied to our goals Monitor whether teams hit their KPIs flag slippage early and bring each problem to the CEO together with a proposed fix
• Make incentives matter Keep salary and token equity benchmarks for crypto and fintech roles current Help design bonus token-grant promotion and raise policies and run the numbers behind them
• Track the industry Keep a running view of competitors exchanges market makers funds and key people who s moving raising launching or hiring Turn that into a short weekly brief for the CEO with the meetings and intros we should go after Manage the CEO s pipeline of people investors partners and future hires plus event lead lists and follow-ups after conferences
• Special projects Take whatever the CEO hands you such as an event a partner launch a board deck or a new market Scope it run it and close it out

Why join

You ll work directly with the CEO and see how every part of the company runs You ll be the first person in this role so you ll build the system from scratch and it can grow into Head of Performance or Chief of Staff as we scale It s high ownership with real impact from day one

Requirements

• About 2 to 4 years in operations strategy chief-of-staff or founder s-office work at a startup or scale-up or in a top consulting firm or investment bank
• Strong analytical skills
• You re fluent in advanced spreadsheets and SQL or a BI tool is a plus
• A natural process builder who turns chaos into a simple system that people actually use
• Relentless follow-through
• You re comfortable chasing senior people and holding them to their word without losing goodwill
• Clear concise writing and the ability to boil a messy situation down to a one-page update
• Comfort with ambiguity a fast pace and a wide remit plus high discretion with confidential information

Nice to have

• Experience in crypto DeFi trading or fintech and an understanding of exchanges liquidity and market structure
• A network across the Dubai and wider Middle East crypto and finance scene
• Hands-on experience with Notion Linear HubSpot or Attio or with no-code automation tools