Founder's Associate

Where this is going We are a founder-led group of B2B software companies serving the private wealth and governance world: WealthComply (FATCA and CRS compliance automation), MinuteMaster (board minutes and governance automation), a venture that is in stealth, and a small media strategy company. The founder is based in Jersey. The team works from several countries. Our clients are trust companies, fund administrators and private wealth firms across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean. Over the next three years we want a group with a real leadership team, where the founder spends his time on the few things only a founder can do and everything else runs without him. This role makes that happen. If that pulls you, read on. If it does not, this is a good place to stop. The role You run the founder's office across the group. You work through other people, with authority the founder lends you openly. In practice: You own the operating rhythm: the daily check-in, the weekly business review, the Friday update, the decision log. You take the workstreams that have no natural owner (a funding round's mechanics, an alliance agreement, a pricing clean-up, a specialist pool) from a conversation to a one-page recommendation, then you execute what the founder decides. You curate what reaches him. Every decision arrives as one page: the decision, the options, a recommendation, a deadline. You close the loops that need a person: chasing, calls, counsel, the company secretary, candidates. You run hiring with our recruiter (scorecards, interviews, references, trials, onboarding) so the founder interviews and decides, and does nothing else in the process. You take on the group's operating admin (payroll, banking within limits, tools, the filing calendar) until it is documented and handed to the right owner. The aim is to remove it, then move on. You will be in the room with the co-founders, investors' teams and advisers. When the team needs a decision or an owner, you are the person they come to. The office runs on an AI operating layer we have already built and use daily: the record, the cadence documents, meeting prep, first drafts. You direct it, and you are accountable for what it produces. If Claude or something like it is already how you work, you will feel at home. You will be judged on five things The founder's hours coming back to the work only he can do. We measure it. Every decision that reaches him arriving as one page. The rhythm running when he is away or tired. Two senior hires landed through our process in your first six months. Nothing falling through: filings, payments, commitments, follow-ups. This role will not suit you if You want a team under you and a budget of your own. You work through others here. You are an excellent executive assistant looking for the next title. This role decides inside its own authority and answers for the outcome. You produce analysis and decks and leave the doing to…