Founders Associate

Bolter; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bolter is seeking a Founders Associate to join a lean, fast-moving team. You will work across strategy, partnerships, fundraising, hiring, and day-to-day decisions that keep a young company moving. You take ownership of real workstreams end to end, often with no playbook and no one to hand it to.

You will report directly to the GM and collaborate with specialized AI agents across the business. This generalist operator role demands initiative, structure, and the ability to move quickly while

Qualifications

• Experience operating with real ownership in startup, venture builder, consulting, or investment environment.
• Strong analytical and written communication skills.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to define the path forward.
• High agency and follow-through; ability to close loops.
• Genuine interest in AI, venture building, and starting from the validation stage.

Responsibilities

• Own workstreams end to end, from strategy and analysis to execution.
• Support fundraising and investor relations.
• Support partnerships and GTM with operators and partners Bolter works with.
• Help build the team, from drafting role specs to coordinating the pipeline.
• Bring structure to a fast-moving company with processes and trackers.
• Handle unglamorous work that matters, including analysis and follow-ups.

Skills

Startup experience

Strategic thinking

Operations

AI agents

Tools

AI agents

Job description

Both short-term and permanent roles are possible.

About Bolter

Bolter is an AI agent platform built to help people get real work done, without needing to stitch together multiple tools or spend weeks setting things up.

You describe what you need in plain language and Bolter creates and runs agents that can carry out the work end to end. They retain context, remember how you work and can also create real, shareable apps such as trackers and dashboards.

Bolter is funded and currently at the validation-sprint stage, working with a small group of high-impact operators. The product already exists. We are now looking for a founding designer to lead a significant redesign and establish the design foundations for what comes next.

About the role

As Bolter's Founders Associate, you will cover a huge range of urgent and important work - strategy, partnerships, fundraising, hiring, operations, and the day-to-day decisions that keep a young company moving. The founder associate is the person who absorbs that breadth so the GM can focus on the highest-impact projects.

This is not a purely admin role, and it is not a change-management role. It is a generalist operator role: you take ownership of real workstreams end to end, figure out what needs to happen, and make it happen - often with no playbook and no one to hand it to.

You'll work directly with the GM in a lean team, with specialised AI agents supporting execution across the business.

What you'll do

• Own workstreams end to end. From strategy and analysis to execution - you take things off the GM's plate and drive them to completion.

• Support fundraising and investor relations. Prepare materials, coordinate diligence, and keep the process moving.

• Support partnerships and GTM. Research, reach out, and manage relationships with the operators and partners Bolter works with.

• Help build the team. Support hiring - from drafting role specs to coordinating the pipeline.

• Bring structure to a fast-moving company. Build the processes, trackers and systems that let a small team move fast without dropping things.

• Do the unglamorous work that matters. The role spans whatever the company needs - analysis, coordination, follow-ups, decisions that need a clear owner.

Why you're made for this

• A track record of operating with real ownership - ideally in a startup, venture builder, consulting, or investment environment.

• Strong analytical and written communication skills. You write clearly and think in first principles.

• Comfort with ambiguity. You're given a problem, not a brief, and you figure out the rest.

• High agency and follow-through. You close loops and don't wait to be told twice.

• Genuine interest in AI, venture building, and what it takes to build a company from the validation stage.

• You're organised and reliable - people can count on you to pick things up and carry them through.

• You're comfortable working directly with senior people and external partners.

• You can leverage AI agents as a force multiplier - we run lean, with a small human core augmented by a fleet of specialised agents.

• You're pragmatic. You know when to be thorough and when good enough is good enough to keep moving.

Bonus points

• Experience in venture building, early-stage startups, or founder's office roles.

• Experience supporting fundraising, partnerships, or GTM at an early stage.

• Experience with AI products or working in a fast-moving technical environment.

• A bias toward building - trackers, dashboards, tools - rather than just managing.

While we think the above experience could be important, we're keen to hear from people who believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role.