Founder's Associate

Job description

Role: Founder's Associate

Reporting To: Co-Founder

Location: London, Hybrid

Package: Up to £60,000 (dep. On experience) + equity+ benefits

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Developa - We help the best founders win

Developa are ex-operators turned exclusive headhunters for exceptional Founders backed by Tier 1 VCs. We're someone you want to know!

Our Client

We're working with a world-class founding team on an opportunity that's truly exciting for a Founder Associate who wants to work in a hardcore Gen AI company. We’ve exclusively built their research team, and we’re now helping the Founder CEO to hire their Founder Associate.

Frontier Lab - New Architecture

What does this mean?

Today's AI is largely built on what's known as the transformer architecture. Transformers were originally developed for language processing, but they've proven remarkably versatile and now power everything from chatbots to coding assistants. Despite their success, they still have important limitations—particularly when it comes to independently making scientific discoveries or generating genuinely new knowledge. Many researchers believe we'll eventually need significant architectural advances, whether that's an evolution of transformers or something entirely new, to overcome these limitations.

This frontier lab is building a new AI architecture (general intelligence) that can do discovery.

This means the AI can generate hypotheses, test them, and learn iteratively. This approach is expected to unlock significant scientific breakthroughs and commercial opportunities across multiple industries.

The Team

The founders are extremely impressive. They are joined by top scientists and researchers from well-known companies (e.g., Deepmind), and some have won global prizes for their research. They are extremely well-funded to advance research and discovery. The team is made-up entirely of researchers and software engineers right now.

The Role

The founders are extremely strong academically and very fun. They're extroverts not introverts and it's a dynamic culture. Now they need to focus on what they do best - that's Research!!

So we're looking for a founder associate who is very hands-on/operational. Happy to support the founders at the task level, and take on special initiatives/projects. The role will become more operationally strategic over time.

What not to expect?

Being in a top tier research lab means they are not commercialising immediately. So this role will *not* suit someone who wants to support sales/GTM planning or likes the scale-up chaos. This role is more likely to support founder efficiency taking day to day tasks off them, to supporting tracking research progress, internal workflow design, fundraising research/tracking, investor updates, research conferences/community presence and more! This person must be happy with day to day administrative/EA requirements. This suits a real ‘do-er’, as opposed to someone who wants to solely work on strategic projects.

We're looking for...

• Someone who is excited to work in a top tier research lab, and the culture that comes with that.
• Enjoys and wants to take the operational admin work and tasks off a founder's plate.
• Someone highly organised and likes making things more efficient.
• Happy to take on EA responsibility (Founder inbox management, scheduling, gatekeeping).
• Someone who is a whizz with tooling. Will own/buy internal tools, systems, and can build tools themselves.
• Wants to learn about getting ideas to test and can support project tracking/progress with the team.
• Someone who can own interview pipelines and scheduling.
• Someone who wants to build their employer brand, social media, and research community presence.

Apply now to talk to us! (Please do not message Beth directly, we will review every applicant).

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

05-07-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English