Founders Associate – Operations

Obsero; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £35,000

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Pension with 4% employer contribution

Fully remote with travel covered

Job summary

Obsero is a UK-based AI search startup seeking a Founders Associate for operations to work directly with the founders to scale the business. You will join alongside our commercially focused Founders Associate, building processes and ensuring behind-the-scenes operations run smoothly as we grow.

The role covers operations, finance and people, product feedback with the product/engineering team, events, and founder-led projects.

Job description

Why join now

It's been a great year at Obsero. Our inbound is growing, our sales pipeline is growing, our customer base is growing, our product is growing and our ambitions are growing with them. To make the most of it, our team needs to grow too.

• We've just raised $1.2m, led by SFC Capital, and we're building towards scale-up

• You'll work hand in hand with the founders every day, with complete autonomy

• You'll be working at the cutting edge of AI, in one of the fastest-moving areas in marketing

• You'll see how a startup is built from the inside, across every part of the business, far earlier in your career than most people get to

About Obsero

Obsero is one of the UK's leading AI search startups. We track how brands are cited and recommended across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and Claude, so marketing teams can see where they stand in AI answers and what to do about it. We work with brands including Zoopla and Zopa.

The role

As our Founders Associate for operations you'll work directly with the founders to take the business through its next stage, with your focus on how Obsero runs. You'll sit alongside our commercially focused Founders Associate, and while there's no single lane here, you'll be the person who builds the processes and keeps everything behind the scenes working as we grow.

What you'll get involved in

• Operations, finance and people. Keeping the business running smoothly behind the scenes as we grow, from suppliers and finance admin to hiring and onboarding new team members

• Product. Seeing how the product is built, working with our product and engineering team, and feeding back what clients tell us

• Events. Organising and representing Obsero at conferences, client events and team days

• Founder projects. Whatever the founders need next, from investor updates to setting up a new process

Whilst not the core of the role, you might also support on:

• Sales. Researching prospects, preparing pitches and joining client calls

• Marketing. Content, LinkedIn and campaigns

Being straight about it

There will be no playbook to work from, you'll be working in constant ambiguity, context switching will be an hourly occurrence, and you'll be expected to deliver at rocketship pace.

You'll also be given complete autonomy, work at the cutting edge of AI and work hand in hand with the founders every day. We're hiring you for who you are and how you think, not for how well you follow the rules. If the first paragraph is as exciting for you as the second, we want to hear from you.

Who you are

• Early in your career and hungry to learn how a startup scales by being right in the middle of it

• Organised and process-minded, the kind of person who enjoys working out how things should run and then making them run that way

• Energised by pace, and happy to go the extra mile when the business needs it because you genuinely love the work

• AI-native: you use AI tools every day to get more did, and you're curious about how AI can make a business run better

• A self-starter who takes the initiative and doesn't wait to be told

• Comfortable switching between very different tasks in the same day, without dropping any of them

• Up for travel to events, client meetings and team days

• Based in the UK with the right to work here

What we offer

• £35,000 a year, reviewed every six months

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

• Pension with a 4% employer contribution

• Fully remote working, with travel for team days, events and clients, and expenses covered

How we hire

1. Interview with the Chief Product Officer

2. Meet the CEO

Good to know

Obsero is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone and will make reasonable adjustments at any stage; just tell us what you need.

We only contact candidates from an @obsero.ai email address.