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Founders Associate

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🔥 46 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

👩🏽‍✈️ Chief of Staff

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Posted on Civic Marketplace's careers page, not through a job board

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Civic Marketplace

11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏛️ Government

Consulting • Logistics • Government

Civic Marketplace is on a mission to unlock local agency procurement through innovation, by building a marketplace that saves time and taxpayer dollars. Their platform provides government procurement offices with the ability to make purchases with ease, simplicity, and full legal compliance. By using cutting-edge technology, Civic Marketplace enhances public service delivery with transparency and efficiency, ensuring access to a network of reliable, pre-approved vendors. They focus on supporting diverse suppliers to foster local economic development, addressing the challenges faced by procurement officers in outdated systems and inefficient processes.

📋 Description

• Work directly with the CEO on the company's most important cross-functional problems • Own two or three company priorities per quarter end to end • Lead flagship programmes such as solicitation sourcing with a cooperative partner • Design processes and AI tooling and run programmes through to outcomes • Turn ambiguous questions from the CEO, board or partners into framed problems, options and recommendations • Run leadership syncs, board and investor updates, OKR reviews and all-hands meetings • Represent the CEO with procurement directors, cooperative executives and investors • Build with Claude, the MCP server and internal agents • Open workstreams during the UK morning and run them with the US team through their day

🎯 Requirements

• Three to five years post MBB, or experience as an operator at a Series A to C company who has run a cross functional programme • Experience owning work from brief to result without a handover • Ability to structure ambiguous problems, form hypotheses and propose tests independently • Executive presence with senior public sector or investor audiences • Track record of owning a programme, launch or deal end to end • Experience working with senior stakeholders across time zones • Analytical fluency with spreadsheets, dashboards and SQL-adjacent tools • Hands-on use of AI tooling, including agents, MCP and prompt-driven workflows • Low ego and high standards; direct, curious and comfortable being challenged • Public sector curiosity; prior government experience not required • Exposure to procurement, cooperative purchasing or regulated B2B markets is a plus • Ability to work from London with daily overlap into US Central hours and regular travel to Texas • Authorization to work in the United States is assessed in the application form • Willingness to undergo a background check

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity • Remote first with regular time together • Travel to the US • Real ownership from week one, working directly with the CEO and founders • Exposure to product, commercial, partnerships, fundraising and board • Clear path to a Head of Operations or GM style role • Small, committed team of operators and engineers across the US and UK

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