Founder Associate at Obra

Hammerjack Pty Ltd; Philippines; Hybrid; PHP 508,000 - 608,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid in Metro Manila

Healthcare insurance

Personal development budget

Wellness budget

PTO with holidays

Job summary

Obra, building the world's first full-stack AI hospital, seeks a Founder Associate to work directly with our CEO on growth, operations, product, hiring, finance, and expansion.

You will transform ambiguous problems into finished outcomes, then build a system so they stay solved. You will begin as a generalist with potential to lead major functions; entrepreneurs who have built something real are preferred.

Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial experience with starting a real business or project and selling to customers.
• Proven ability to persuade, follow up relentlessly, and close effectively.
• AI-native mindset, using AI to research, analyze, automate, prototype, write, and operate faster.
• Ownership mindset: take vague problems from discovery to finished results.
• autodidactic with fast learning and resourcefulness; self-teaches needed skills.
• Willing to roll up sleeves and work in the trenches to deliver outcomes.
• Highly organized and capable of handling multiple projects concurrently.
• Comfort with systemic thinking to fix root causes and automate where possible.

Responsibilities

• Company: work with the CEO to run the company and improve internal operating system.
• Hiring: design roles, source candidates, run interviews, onboarding.
• Finance: maintain financial reporting, cash flow, payroll, invoices.
• Investors: prepare updates, manage information requests, fundraising support.
• Legal: coordinate contracts, insurance, IP, corporate needs with external professionals.
• Systems: improve AI, Notion, task management, meetings, and communications.
• Strategy: lay groundwork for overall company strategy with the CEO.
• Growth/Sales/Product/Research/Expansion: execute and iterate on initiatives; tackle special projects.

Skills

entrepreneurial

sales

ai-native

ownership

learning

trenches

complexity

mindset

systems

Tools

Notion

AI tools

Job description

The opportunity as Founder Associate

Obra is building the world's first full-stack AI hospital.

As Founder Associate, you'll work directly with our CEO, Joachim, on whatever matters most to building the company.

Your job is to increase his leverage. You'll take ambiguous problems across growth, operations, product, hiring, finance, and expansion, then turn them into finished outcomes. You'll solve the problem first, then build a system so it stays solved.

This is not an executive-assistant role, a strategy-only role, or a job where you wait for instructions. We are looking for a company builder who can think clearly, sell, operate, use AI aggressively, and do the work themselves.

You should have already started something of your own and convinced real people to pay for it. It does not need to have become a large company. We care that you have experienced what it means to create something from nothing, sell without an established brand, and keep moving when there is no playbook.

You'll begin as a generalist. If you are exceptional, you'll eventually own and lead a major function at Obra.

Key Responsibilities

Company — You'll work closely with our CEO (Joachim) to help run the company & improve our internal operating system.

• hiring Help design roles, source exceptional candidates, run interviews, and coordinate onboarding.
• finance Maintain financial reporting, monitor cash flow, coordinate payroll and invoices, and work with our accountants.
• investors Help prepare investor updates, manage information requests, and support future fundraising.
• legal Coordinate contracts, insurance, intellectual property, corporate requirements, and other work with external professionals.
• systems Improve how Obra uses AI, Notion, task management, meetings, documentation, and internal communication.

Strategy — You'll work closely with Joachim to lay the groundwork for the company's overall strategy.

• growth Launch experiments across paid acquisition, content, creators, partnerships, referrals, and conversion.
• sales Sell Obra to patients, partners, candidates, vendors, and anyone else we need to persuade.
• product Identify problems, define solutions, and work with developers to improve patient and internal tools.
• research Investigate markets, competitors, regulations, technologies, and new healthcare opportunities.
• expansion Help evaluate and launch new treatments, services, partnerships, and markets.
• special projects Attack whatever important problem does not yet have a clear owner.
  

Need to Have

• entrepreneurial:You have started a real business or project and sold something to real customers.
• sales: You can persuade people, handle rejection, follow up relentlessly, and close.
• ai-native: AI is part of how you think and work. You use it to research, analyze, automate, prototype, write, and operate faster.
• ownership: You can take a vague problem from discovery to a finished result.
• learning: you're an autodidact with impressive speed and resourcefulness. You regularly teach yourself the skills you need from scratch.
• trenches: you don't hesitate to get your hands dirty in the trenches. You're not too pretentious to grind it out.
• complexity: you're highly organized and can complete multiple projects concurrently.
• mindset: you calmly handle uncertainty and rapidly changing situations.
• systems: you think in and build out systems. In solving a problem you recognize the underlying system, then focus on improving the system itself to fix the true cause of an issue, automating where possible.
  

Nice to Have

• Past: you've likely been pulled into important problems, taken risks, excelled in new areas. You've likely created something from nothing, however small.
• Future: you want to start a company in the future.
• Background: you may have a STEM background, and may have a background in engineering, product, software, computers - or something similar. You're comfortable around no-code tools and not afraid of code.
• Experience: maybe you have 1+ years of relevant experience.
• Figure it out: you're likely one of those timeless people that could be dropped anywhere in the world, in any century, and you'd figure it out. Your friends probably think of you as that person :)
  

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation: ₱50,000 monthly base salary
• Vacation: PTO with a yearly minimum (>2wks/yr + local national holidays)
• Remote: Hybrid in Metro Manila, with remote work and in-person work as needed.
• Healthcare: comprehensive medical insurance (30,000 pesos/yr)
• Personal development: budget for books, courses, coaching (20,000 pesos/yr)
• Personal wellness: budget for gym, health apps (25,000 pesos/yr)
• What are we missing We're still early so you get to shape our culture.