Founders Associate

GetGround Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

GetGround Group seeks a Founder Associate to support the CEO and COO by solving high-priority, growth-driving problems. You will own end-to-end workstreams, from market-entry modelling to diagnosing funnel leaks and drafting board papers.

This role demands an analytical mindset, exceptional communication, and the ability to translate strategy into action within a fast-paced startup. You’ll operate with autonomy, influence without formal authority, and contribute to the company’s next growth

Qualifications

• Own the CEO/COO’s highest-priority problems end to end.
• Do the analysis yourself and build models; stress-test conclusions.
• Turn strategy into ships; ship initiatives and create impact.
• Prepare the CEO/COO for boardrooms and investor conversations.
• Spot overlooked problems and bring them to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own high-priority problems end to end for the CEO/COO, usually two to three at a time.
• Conduct analyses, build models, and validate conclusions independently.
• Turn strategic ideas into executing initiatives with measurable impact.
• Prepare leadership for key meetings and external discussions.
• Identify and surface issues previously unseen to guide decisions.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical mindset

Commercial acumen

Communication skills

Influence without authority

Job description

This is a high impact, visible role. As our Founder Associate, you'll support the CEO & COO and augment their capacity by taking on problems to solve that are critically important to how we build all aspects of GetGround. Some weeks that means building the model that decides whether we enter a new market. Others it means untangling why a core funnel is leaking, or writing the board paper, or problem solving what seems like the impossible task. You'll be in a role that will require you to use your expert communication skills, analytical mindset, commercial accumen and intellect to support in propelling us through our next stage of growth.

What you'll do

• Own the CEO & COO’s highest-priority problems end to end, usually two or three at a time, each lasting anywhere from a fortnight to a quarter. You'll define the question, do the analysis, form a view, get buy-in, and see it through to execution.

• Do the analysis yourself. You'll pull the data, build the model, and stress-test your own conclusions before anyone else does. We don't have an army of analysts for you to delegate to, and we like it that way.

• Turn strategy into things that ship. You will be accountable for shipping these initiatives, creating impact and own the result.

• Prepare the CEO & COO for the rooms that matter, board meetings, investor conversations, partnership negotiations. You'll shape what gets said.

• Spot what nobody is looking at. A good Founder Associate brings problems to the CEO & COO as often as they receive them.

What we are looking for

• Agency and resilience

• A unwavering work ethic and desire to scale a business

• 2 to 5 + years in strategy consulting, investment banking, private equity, or an operating role at a high-growth startup.

• Strong commercial judgement. You can look at a messy situation, work out which two numbers actually matter, and be roughly right quickly rather than precisely right too late.

• You write and communicate difficult concepts and topics in simple, clear terms and to an expert level.

• You can influence without authority

• High tolerance for ambiguity and pace. Priorities shift. Projects get killed. If that sounds exhausting rather than energising, this isn't the role.

Nice to have

• Exposure to fintech or regulated financial services

• Experience taking something from zero to one inside an existing company

What we are building:

The first end-to-end real estate investment offering - making the dream of owning real estate more accessible to everyone globally.

Diversity & inclusion at GetGround:

We encourage applications from all sections of society and we believe in the criticality of an inclusive culture. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by law.

• 42% of our employees identify as female or non-specified, 58% as male

• 22 nationalities represented across offices in 5 countries

• Our work on Design Accessibility

• Inclusion is at the heart of our culture - we celebrate and reflect on key D&I and cultural events such as: Black History Month, International Women's Day and Pride

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