Founder's Associate

Manykind; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Manykind is seeking a Founder's Associate in a hybrid San Francisco role focused on growth, sales and GTM. You work directly with the founder to drive outbound, build a pipeline, and shape product decisions with real customer feedback.

You will own the partner and customer conversations, craft content that drives engagement, and implement pricing tests while learning how an AI agent platform is built and sold. Equity is part of the offer.

Qualifications

• 3 to 7 years in growth, sales, business development, GTM or product at a startup or another fast-moving company.
• Proven traction: users, pipeline, revenue, or community growth.
• Experience with outbound and content creation for engagement.
• Ability to talk to founders/CTOs and translate feedback into product insight.
• Comfort with ambiguity and daily hands-on outbound work.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to write posts and run sequences.

Responsibilities

• Pipeline sourcing, qualifying and running conversations weekly with design partners and customers.
• Own all‑bound growth: outbound sequences and content that drives replies.
• Own GTM: positioning, messaging, pricing experiments and playbooks.
• Contribute to product discussions with customer feedback and priorities.
• Build automation when you identify repeatable tasks.

Skills

Growth

Sales

GTM

Outbound

CRM

Content

Partnerships

Notion

HubSpot

LinkedIn

Automation

Tools

Notion

HubSpot

LinkedIn

Automation platforms

Job description

Founder's Associate (Growth, Sales & GTM)

San Francisco, hybrid Full-time

San Francisco or Berlin · Hybrid · Full-time · Seed-stage

What this actually is

Most Founder's Associate roles sound great and turn into coordination and status updates. This one is different. You sit next to the founder and you own growth: finding the right customers and partners, getting in front of them every day, closing them, and bringing back what they tell you so the product gets better.

It is a Founder's Associate role in the original sense. You work directly with an experienced founder who has built technical companies before, every day, on decisions as they are made rather than in the status meeting afterwards. You see how the product gets designed, how the engineering trade-offs are argued, how pricing and partnerships get decided, and you are in the room for all of it. If you want to learn product and tech fast from a founder who has done it, while owning real sales numbers, this is the role.

This is a hands‑on role. The daily work is prospect lists, outbound sequences, follow‑ups, posts, demos and a clean CRM, and you do it yourself rather than manage someone who does. The strategic part grows out of that work: you will know who buys and why before anyone else in the company, and you turn that into positioning, pricing and product priorities.

What we do

Companies want AI agents to do real work, but most try it once and stop. The reason is simple: nobody can see what the agent is doing, so nobody trusts it with real customer data. A person ends up checking every step, and the agent never gets to do the job on its own.

Manykind AI solves this. We give companies a safe place to run their AI agents. Every agent has clear rules about what it can and cannot do, and every action it takes is recorded. So the company can see exactly what the agent did and trust it to work without someone watching.

We sell to two kinds of customers: companies that want to run their own agents, and agencies that build and run agents for their clients. You will be talking to a lot of that second group.

Who we're looking for

Someone who has already grown something — users, pipeline, revenue — and is happy doing the daily work of outreach and content. You care about why people adopt a product, and you can talk to a founder or CTO and tell them what's missing.

You probably:

• Have 3 to 7 years in growth, sales, business development, GTM or product at a startup or another fast-moving company, including a stretch where you owned a number
• Can show traction you drove: users, signups, pipeline, revenue, a community, a launch, anything counts. We want to see the number and hear how you got it.
• Care about product: you have launched or shipped something, or worked next to the people who did, and you have opinions about why some products get used and others only get demoed.
• Have done outbound before and are not afraid of a cold conversation with a founder.
• Know what useful product feedback looks like: a pattern across ten conversations, not one customer's wish list.
• Have run content or social for a company, or are ready to: you can write a post and a sequence that people reply to, and keep it up every week.
• Use AI tools every day to work faster (research, outreach, content, CRM, reporting) and can set up a workflow without asking an engineer.
• Pick up tools like Notion, HubSpot, LinkedIn and automation platforms quickly.
• Are fine with ambiguity and don't wait to be told what to do next.
• Write clearly and don't let things slip.

What you'll own

• Pipeline: sourcing, qualifying and running conversations with design partners and customers every week, with the numbers to show for it
• All-bound growth: outbound and inbound in one pipeline. You run the outbound sequences and the content that makes people reply: company posts, case studies, walkthroughs and co-marketing with partners
• GTM: positioning, messaging, pricing experiments, and the playbook for how we sell
• Product: you talk to more customers than anyone else here, so you sit in product discussions and bring back what customers asked for, where they stalled and what they will pay for, in a form the team can act on the same week. You help decide what gets built next and own the customer-facing side of the product: demos, onboarding, and a customer's first week on the platform
• Automation: when you find repeatable work, you build the agent that does it, on our own platform

What you get

• Daily work with an experienced founder on product, technology, pricing and partnerships, not a quarterly update
• A working understanding of how an AI agent platform is built and sold, deep enough to explain it to a CTO and argue about it with the engineers
• Real ownership: a pipeline, a content engine and a number that is yours
• Meaningful early-team equity

What the first 90 days look like

• Month 1: you can demo the product yourself, you have run your first 20 outbound runs daily without the founder, and the first company content is live on a weekly cadence
• Month 2: you own the design-partner pipeline end to end, the first inbound arrives, and the founder relies on you for the commercial read and a weekly product feedback note
• Month 3: we have a written sales motion, live reporting instead of manual updates, a content cadence that produces pipeline, and at least one product decision made because of what you brought back

How we hire

• Intro call to align on expectations and fit
• Founder conversation on vision, mindset, and how you think
• References
• Paid trial (≈5 days) tailored to your schedule (full/part time): runs alongside the offer conversation.