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Founder's Associate

Encord
Posted 3 months ago, valid for 13 days
Location

San Francisco, CA, US

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Encord is seeking a multi-talented individual to support co-founders and senior team members in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
  • The ideal candidate should have at least 2 years of experience in a high-intensity setting, such as an early-stage startup or top-tier consulting.
  • Responsibilities include conducting research, tracking ROI of growth channels, and enhancing the company's careers page.
  • The role offers a competitive salary, commission, and equity in a rapidly growing business.
  • Candidates should possess strong analytical skills and excellent communication abilities, with a focus on delivering results.

About us

Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.

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Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.

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The role

This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious, multi-talented individual who wants to see the inside of a fast-paced scale-up and work closely with the co-founders and senior team. The ideal candidate is a superstar who is willing to work hard, roll up their sleeves and support the founders in their day-to-day tasks, while learning about every aspect of what it takes to run a fast growing business.

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You will work directly with Encord's senior team and get unique visibility into an exciting, high-growth, mission-based scale-up.

What you'll do

  • Work directly with the co-founders and other members of the senior team on a variety of projects and tasks: from presentations and spreadsheets, to basic reporting and various growth initiatives

  • Research: ranging from customer research to identifying new opportunities to supporting strategic decisions

  • Track the ROI of various growth channels to improve resource allocation and identify new growth curves

  • Design, release, and improve a careers page to attract the next wave of Encord talent

  • Ensure we keep our start-up atmosphere as we scale: plan and coordinate activities and events (e.g. team outings, in-office events)

  • Be an integral part in growing the business — support Encord's presence on social media, conferences, and more

  • Crunch numbers on customers' usage of the product to help inform our Customer Success team's quarterly success planning

Who we're looking for

  • A do-er with a founder's mentality — comfortable rolling up your sleeves for anything from an internal slide deck to a client demo, and energised by building something from the ground up

  • You take end-to-end ownership of broad, ambiguous problems and think from first principles to get to a result — without needing hand-holding

  • Obsessed with outcomes: you work best when given a goal and the autonomy to find a way there, iterating scrappily and resourcefully until it's done

  • Entrepreneurial and comfortable context-switching rapidly — a candidate interview, an Excel model, and a vision-pitch draft might all land in the same afternoon

  • Detail-oriented and proactively communicative — your team is always up to date, things rarely slip, and you're already thinking three steps ahead

Experience requirements

  • 2+ years in a high-intensity, high-velocity environment — early-stage startup (founding team or first 20 employees), top-tier management consulting, investment banking, private equity, or a similarly demanding, execution-focused setting

  • Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous brief, structure the problem, and drive it to a high-quality output end-to-end

  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills — comfortable building Excel or Google Sheets models, analysing product usage data, tracking growth metrics, and drawing actionable conclusions from numbers

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce polished decks, memos, and external-facing materials quickly and to a high standard

  • Proven track record of managing multiple workstreams simultaneously without dropping the ball

  • Bonus: prior exposure to B2B SaaS or AI/ML; experience supporting a founder or C-suite executive directly; familiarity with GTM functions such as marketing, sales ops, or customer success

What we offer

  • Competitive salary, commission, and equity in a hyper-growth business

  • Strong in-person culture: most of our team is in the office 3+ days a week

  • Generous holiday allowance + public holidays

  • Annual learning and development budget

  • Paid trips to visit prospects, attend conferences, and host events across the UK, Europe, and US

  • Company lunches twice a week

  • Monthly socials & bi-annual off-sites




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