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Founder's Associate

Confidential client — early-stage AI product company (NYC, in-office).

New York City (in-office)· $120K – $220K / year

About the role

Confidential client — early-stage AI product company (NYC, in-office).

Work directly with the founder across sales, product, and growth. After ~3 months, option to specialize into a function.

What you'll do

  • Own messy cross-functional problems end-to-end (pipeline, product experiments, hiring ops, special projects)
  • Sit in customer and sales conversations; turn signal into action
  • Build lightweight systems (CRM hygiene, dashboards, agent workflows) so the company moves faster
  • Be a high-agency operator: ship, measure, iterate

Who you are

  • Prior Founder's Associate / Chief of Staff / founding ops / early GTM generalist at a startup (seed–Series B preferred)
  • Analytical + execution bias; comfortable with ambiguity
  • NYC-based or willing to relocate

Comp and title discussed in process. Client identity shared under NDA after first screen.

What the role needs

  • Startup operator experience (FA/CoS/founding ops/early GTM)
  • High agency across sales/product/growth
  • NYC or willing to relocate
  • Comfortable with AI-native tools

How hiring works

  • You apply here once — CV and contact details, nothing else.
  • We screen and, if it fits, put you in front of the client directly.
  • You interview with the company. We handle contracts and payment.
  • Applying is free. Candidates never pay Nexus anything.

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Takes about two minutes. We reply to every application.

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