Founder's Associate: Strategic Ops, Prototyping & Equity

Midnight Mansion; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

Flexible work hours

Retirement savings plan with employer

Job summary

Midnight Mansion is seeking a Founder’s Associate to collaborate closely with the CEO on technical projects, operations, procurement, and research. This full-time, in-person role requires commuting to Needham and Somerville, MA as needed and emphasizes ownership, ambiguity handling, and hands-on execution.

You’ll research, source, compare options, and help shape proposals and internal processes, growing into larger project ownership over time.

Qualifications

• Experience in a role involving operations, technical production, procurement, research, project delivery, fabrication, consulting, or startup work.
• Ability to work through ambiguous or unfamiliar problems independently.
• Comfort researching, comparing options, and making recommendations.
• Familiarity with how things get designed, sourced, built, or installed is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Take loosely defined problems from research and recommendations through hands-on execution and completed work.
• Research technical, operational, and business questions and get up to speed quickly on unfamiliar subjects.
• Source and evaluate products, components, vendors, and services based on cost, capability, lead time, and fit.
• Collaborate across engineering, design, fabrication, projects, and outside vendors to move work forward.
• Support proposals, scopes, estimates, procurement, and other priorities requiring research and attention to detail.
• Identify missing information, dependencies, contradictions, and risks; manage follow-ups needed to close loops.
• Take ownership of increasingly complex problems and improve recurring processes.

Skills

Fast & detail-oriented

Resourceful & independent

Strong practical judgment

Technically curious

Business-minded

Clear, organized, trustworthy

APIs

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Job description

Midnight Mansion is seeking a Founder’s Associate to collaborate closely with the CEO on technical projects, operations, procurement, and research. This full-time, in-person role requires commuting to Needham and Somerville, MA as needed and emphasizes ownership, ambiguity handling, and hands-on execution.

You’ll research, source, compare options, and help shape proposals and internal processes, growing into larger project ownership over time.