Job Specifications
Short description
This internship offers a unique opportunity for candidates to gain hands-on experience in sales and account management. The intern will work directly with a growing sales team, contributing to lead generation, account management, and podcast-driven growth strategies. This is a chance to shape the future of the sales process, learn from industry experts, and play an active role in a variety of sales and marketing activities.
Founder’s Associate
Founder’s Associate (Sales & GTM Operations)
Role: Founder’s Associate (Sales & GTM Operations)
Salary: £1,800-£2000 a month
Location: London, UK (Shoreditch)
Schedule: Full-time (36 hours/week — 4 day work week Mon-Thurs)
Mon/Wed/Thurs: In office | Tues: Remote | Fri: Off
Start date: June 2026
Who We Are
We is a growth partner agency for forward-thinking, mission-driven brands. We advise C-Suite leaders on holistic growth strategy while deeply integrating with their in-house marketing, product, and sales teams to help them scale with purpose.
We specialise in working with early-stage startups and scale-ups in sectors like ClimateTech, HRTech, HealthTech, FinTech, EdTech, InsurTech, and AI, as well as other values-led brands across the UK, US, and Europe.
We care deeply about alignment, quality, and empathy. The people who thrive here think like founders, take ownership, and make things happen.
Who You Are
You’re an early-career operator who loves making complex things simple, and big ideas executable. You’re obsessed with clarity, follow-through, and making sure nothing “falls between the cracks.”
You’re excited by sales, marketing, GTM strategy, and the inner workings of a growing company. You like building systems as much as you like getting things done day-to-day. You’re happy being behind the scenes, making sure the Founder is in the right place, with the right information, doing the right work.
You’re not scared of spreadsheets, CRMs, transcripts, or messy pipelines. In fact, you like turning chaos into clean boards, clear priorities, and simple checklists.
The Role
This is a high-exposure execution role where you’ll act as the Founder’s force multiplier — with a special focus on:
Sales Operations
Marketing Operations
Executive Function (C-Suite Enablement)
Reducing Founder friction
You’ll sit at the heart of our GTM engine, helping build and run the systems that will take us to £1M ARR in 2026.
This role is perfect for someone who wants to learn GTM, agency operations, sales, and strategy by working directly with the Founder, Managing Director (MD), and Chief of Staff (CoS).
You will ensure that:
Sales + Marketing workflows are organised, clear, and consistently followed.
The Founder arrives to every external meeting prepped, and leaves every meeting with structured follow-ups.
Outreach, nurturing, and pipeline hygiene are maintained.
Marketing assets and content get created, organised, and operationalised.
No lead, insight, or next step is ever lost.
Founder time is spent on high-value work, not admin or friction tasks.
Bad News
If you struggle with detail, follow-through, or organisation, this probably isn’t the role for you. The expectation is that you’ll organise yourself brilliantly as you manage and tweak an executive operating system that maximises our Founder’s hard work.
If you want to spend all day “thinking strategy” without ever updating a CRM, drafting an email follow-up, or turning voice notes into usable documents, you’ll find this frustrating.
If you’re not willing to ask questions upfront, chase people for clarity, and then make an informed decision to move things forward, this role won’t be a good fit. If you’re not ready take ownership for keeping the Founder and leadership team aligned, this will feel overwhelming.
If you want something “chill” where your work doesn’t really move the needle and you’re not accountable for showing your work and presenting results regularly, this isn’t it.
Good News
If you love being the person who makes everything run smoothly, you’ll thrive here.
If you enjoy turning chaos into clean systems, big ideas into actionable plans, and messy conversations into crisp notes and next steps — you’ll be in your element.
If you’ve been looking for a role where you can learn cutting-edge strategy and execution in sales, marketing, growth strategy, and operations directly from a Founder and senior leadership team, this is that role.
You’ll see the immediate impact of your work in:
Pipeline quality (i.e. more qualified leads, higher conversion rates)
Revenue growth
Founder capacity
And the overall health of our GTM engine
Mission (Q1 + Beyond)
Your Q1 mission:
Support the Founder and leadership team to build and activate a fully operational, high-value revenue engine capable of delivering £1M ARR in 2026.
You’ll play a key role in:
Building and maintaining a clean, accurate, and actionable CRM + pipeline
Implementing a reverse-engineered funnel with weekly/mo
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