Founders Associate

Volter; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Volter is a fast-growing B2B energy tech platform backed by top-tier investors. We’re seeking a Founders Associate to work directly with the founders, across the business to drive impact from day one.

You’ll scope and model commercial propositions, build automations, support hiring, prepare investor materials and unblock customers. It’s a founder apprenticeship with real responsibility and breadth across operations, product and strategy.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in a demanding, fast-paced environment (consulting, banking, or startup)
• Strong numerical ability and attention to detail
• Ability to understand business models and commercial strategy quickly
• Proven bias to action: delivered outcomes without being asked
• Fast learner with ability to learn new domains quickly
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Responsibilities

• Own high-priority projects end-to-end across commercial, ops, finance, product and people; scope, execute, deliver
• Support commercial strategy: new product/market analysis, testing and launch
• Turn founder ideas into structured plans and shipped outcomes
• Design, automate processes across the business using modern tooling and AI
• Support fundraising, investor updates and board prep

Skills

3-5 years experience

Numerical ability

Business models understanding

Bias to action

Fast learner

Self-starter

Clear communication

Job description

About Volter

Volter is a top-tier VC-backed B2B energy tech platform building the products that make clean, renewable power simple for businesses everywhere. The energy transition is a huge and vital opportunity, but it's currently too difficult for commercial & industrial companies to achieve. Historically, the energy industry has been too opaque, complex and lacking in trust. We're fixing that. We aim to be the "Octopus Energy for industry": a modern tech platform providing new renewable energy products with radical transparency, accelerating deployment of renewables and helping customers cut costs and carbon without complexity.

We're excited to use technology to help our customers deploy & utilise more renewable energy and fast-forward the energy transition - and we need your help!

Role: Founders Associate

We're hiring a Founders Associate to work directly with Volter's founders and extend their bandwidth across the whole business.

This is a generalist role for someone hungry, ambitious and keen to learn. One week you might be scoping and modelling a new commercial proposition, the next building an automation for ops, running a hiring process, preparing investor materials or unblocking a customer issue. No task is too big or too small - what matters is that the most important thing gets done, fast.

It's the closest thing to a founder apprenticeship: full context, real responsibility, and exposure to every part of building a company. Past people in roles like this go on to lead functions, become operators and start their own companies.

Day-to-day responsibilities

Special projects & strategy

• Own high-priority projects end-to-end across commercial, ops, finance, product and people - scope, execute, deliver

• Support commercial strategy: new product/market analysis, testing & launch

• Turn founder ideas into structured plans and then into shipped outcomes

Analysis & modelling

• Build models and analyses that drive real decisions: unit economics, channel performance, market sizing, business cases

• Get into the data yourself - find the answer, sense-check it, and present it simply

Building the machine

• Design, improve and automate processes across the business using modern tooling and AI

• Spot what's breaking as we scale and fix it before it becomes a problem

Whatever it takes

• Support fundraising, investor updates and board prep

• Jump on the most important problem of the week - even when it's unglamorous

• Act as a trusted extension of the founders internally and externally

What experience you bring

• 3-5 years of experience in a demanding, fast-paced environment - consulting, banking, or startup operator role

• Strong numerical ability and attention to detail - your work is right, not just fast

• Ability to understand business models and commercial strategy quickly and deeply

• Proven bias to action: examples of things you made happen without being asked

• Track record of learning new domains very fast and delivering in them

• Excellent written and verbal communication - you make complex things simple

Desirable

• Exposure to energy, climate, marketplaces or B2B

• Experience building automations or working with AI tooling day-to-day

• Early-stage startup experience

Who you are

• Hungry and ambitious - you want responsibility now and you're willing to work hard to earn more of it

• A very fast learner who is curious about everything: the market, the model, the tech, the customer

• Genuinely no-task-too-small: you'll build the board model in the morning and chase a meter reading in the afternoon

• You don't need encouragement to work harder or faster - you set the pace

• Impatient in the best way: you want to do more, and you scale yourself through technology, automation and AI

• Bought into our mission - you want to change the world with us

• You have a strong bias toward action and having an impact quickly. You want to get sh*t done

• You are a self-starter and autonomous in your way of working, but ultimately believe a team can get further together than any individual

• You communicate clearly and keep things as simple as possible

What you can expect from us

• A dynamic and fast-changing environment with incredible responsibility and autonomy

• A front-row seat to company building, working directly with and learning from experienced startup founders who've invested in and scaled businesses up to several billion dollars in valuation

• Rapid growth: this role is a launchpad into leadership, operating or founding roles

• Working on market-leading and genuinely impactful products that help solve the climate crisis

• A kick-ass team of colleagues

• We value in-person time at our office in London, but offer hybrid/flexible working

• Competitive compensation based on candidate profile with generous employee equity