Founder’s Associate

Cambridge Compute Co.; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridge Compute Co. seeks its first non-technical hire to own operations as we scale. You will shape processes, coordinate recruitment and onboarding, and help build an operations function that can grow toward a COO role.

You will manage invoices, contracts and suppliers, design efficient workflows, assess internal AI tools, and turn ideas into tangible results with careful records and clear ownership.

Qualifications

• Experience building a company, launching a function or delivering a substantial project from scratch.
• Strong written and verbal communication with discretion over sensitive information.
• Ability to design efficient processes with clear ownership and useful reporting.
• Comfort with evaluating AI tools and technology and applying a hands-on approach.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate recruitment, candidate communications and onboarding.
• Organise company events and conference participation, including budgets and logistics.
• Manage invoices, payments and records with the accountant; coordinate agreements and purchasing.
• Design reliable processes with clear ownership and useful reporting.
• Help shape internal AI tools and improve workflows.
• Demonstrate ownership, ambition and ability to execute from idea to result.
• Maintain accurate records and understand financial implications of decisions.
• Communicate clearly and exercise sound judgement with sensitive information.

Skills

Organisational skills

Numeracy

Communication

Judgement

Ambition

Attention to detail

Job description

The next breakthroughs in cancer, fusion energy and our understanding of the universe will be found on GPUs running experiments at massive scale. The agents running these experiments need GPUs in bursts no single cloud can supply. C3 turns the world's fragmented GPU capacity into one network they can use: describe a job once, and C3 finds GPUs, reproduces the environment, positions the data, routes the work and meters only running time. C3 is building the infrastructure layer for automated research.

As C3's first non-technical hire, you'll own company operations and help shape the AI tools we're developing to support them, giving the founder more time to build and scale the technology, with scope to build an operations team and progress towards COO as your contribution and the company grow.

Hiring and onboarding: coordinate recruitment, candidate communications and onboarding.

Event organisation: organise company events and conference participation, including budgets and logistics.

Finance, contracts and suppliers: manage invoices, payments and records with our accountant; coordinate agreements, renewals and purchasing.

Operational processes: design efficient, reliable processes with clear ownership and useful reporting.

AI tools and automation: help shape C3's internal tools and improve workflows, assessing reliability and where human judgement is needed.

Zero-to-one experience: you've helped build a company, launched a function or delivered a substantial project from scratch, with clear results.

Organisation and numeracy: attention to detail, accurate records and an understanding of the financial implications of decisions.

Communication and judgement: clear writing, thoughtful communication and discretion with sensitive information.

Ownership and ambition: work out what needs doing and see it through, with the ambition to lead operations and willingness to do the detailed work.

An experimental approach to AI: curiosity about new tools and the judgement to assess what works. Coding experience is not required.