Founders Associate

Job title: Founders Associate

About the Role An ultra-action oriented, early-career operator who sits alongside the founders and senior leadership, embedding into decision-making and execution. This is not a traditional corporate role; it's a hands-on opportunity to structure initiatives, research markets, prepare materials, and ensure critical work stays on track. You will be using AI tools and cloud workflows daily to accelerate impact.

What You'll Do

• Execution Partner to Leadership: Work directly with the founders and senior team on day-to-day priorities; help organize what matters, sequence what's next, and push initiatives across the finish line; prepare briefs, decision memos, summaries, and materials for key conversations; follow through relentlessly — you are the person who makes sure things actually happen.
• AI & Cloud-Driven Work: Use AI tools and cloud platforms — Claude, ChatGPT, and others — as a core part of how you work, every day; research markets, companies, and opportunities; synthesize complex information into clear, actionable outputs; build drafts of strategies, documents, frameworks, and analyses; continuously identify ways to do more with less — bringing new tools, workflows, and capabilities into the team proactively; set the standard for what AI-native work looks like inside CIAL.
• Projects Across the Business: Support new initiatives, partnerships, and growth opportunities as they emerge; move fluidly between strategy, operations, research, and coordination — often in the same week; bring structure to ambiguous situations and clarity to complex ones.
• Operational Leverage: Identify friction in how things run and fix it; build simple, durable systems, workflows, and processes that make the team more effective; act as a force multiplier — your output should make everyone around you more productive.

What We're Looking For

• Exceptionally sharp and a fast, self-directed learner.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented — you catch what others miss.
• Strong written and verbal communicator — clear, concise, no fluff.
• Native user of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, and similar) — you already use them daily, not occasionally, for building and agentic flows, not just chat.
• Naturally proactive — you identify what needs to happen and do it without being asked.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and energized by moving fast in an environment without a fixed playbook.
• Low ego, high ownership — you care about the work, not the credit.
• You might be a top student, someone who built something on your own, or simply someone who is unusually sharp and driven. We care far more about how you think than what your resume says.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation commensurate with the level of contribution and ownership expected.
• Long-term growth opportunity with exposure to varied industries and business functions.
• Direct, daily exposure to how real businesses are built, run, and grown.
• A steep learning curve — deliberately.