# Founder's Associate - Company: [Riplo]() - Location: London - Team: Growth - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: July 20, 2026 ## Job description **The opportunity** The $1 trillion consulting industry is powered by some of the world's brightest minds, yet they remain trapped in manual, inefficient workflows — spreadsheet orchestration, slide-deck assembly, and fragmented data synthesis. We are moving the industry from "human-plus-tools" to autonomous agency. The Founders Associate role is the founders' force multiplier. You'll work directly alongside our two co-founders and the Chief of Staff across every dimension of building the company: fundraising, hiring, partnerships, go-to-market, investor relations, operations, and whatever else shows up tomorrow. There is no fixed job description because the job changes every week. What stays constant: you're in the room for every critical decision, and you co-own the execution that follows. **Why this matters** Every engagement Riplo touches makes the system smarter. The context, the judgment, the work product — all of it compounds into a knowledge layer no individual consultant or competing tool can replicate. The firms that move first on this category don't just work faster; they build a structural advantage. The next twelve months are when the category gets defined. Joining now means working on the problems that determine whether Riplo becomes the default — not future hypotheticals, but the actual decisions being made right now. Riplo was founded by an ex-McKinsey / BCG / DeepMind / Hg founding team, and emerged from stealth in March 2026 with $3.1M in pre-seed funding led by Cherry Ventures, joined by Blue Lion Capital, partners from McKinsey and BCG, the founders of QuantumBlack, and angels from OpenAI, Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Hg Capital. **What you'll do** Your scope will evolve week to week, but the initial areas: * Fundraising and investor relations. End-to-end process support: deck iterations, data room, investor pipeline, due diligence coordination. * Hiring and talent operations. Source, screen, and close candidates across engineering, product, and commercial roles. * Strategic research. Market sizing, competitive landscapes, partnership opportunities, pricing models. Synthesise complexity into recommendations the founders can act on. * Partnerships and BD. Identify and qualify integration, channel, and technology partners. Support early deal structuring. * GTM scaffolding. ICP definition, target account lists, sales collateral, and the operational scaffolding for Riplo's first commercial motions. * Operations and AI-first company building. Systems, legal, finance, vendor management, and the hundred other things that have no owner yet. AI-first is the default. **Who we're looking for** * 0–4 years in a high-intensity environment: top-tier consulting, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or an early-stage startup. Exceptional recent graduates welcome. * Outstanding analytical and problem-solving instincts. You can build a financial model, structure a market analysis, and write a compelling narrative with equal comfort. * Sharp written and verbal communication. Your investor updates, candidate emails, and partnership briefs don't need editing. * Extreme ownership. You see gaps, you fill them, you don't wait to be told. * High comfort with ambiguity and context-switching. * Fluency with modern AI tools. You use them everywhere to accelerate your work, not as a novelty. * Fluent English. **What's in it for you** * Competitive salary plus meaningful equity. * A front-row seat to the AI revolution with your hands on the wheel. * Direct daily access to founders who've built and backed category-defining companies. * More context, responsibility, and direct impact than people with far more senior titles at larger companies. **Location** London is the primary base. Remote is possible only for exceptional talent. ## Apply [Apply on Riplo]() Canonical job page: