# Founders Associate \(Business Operations\) - Company: [Pluralis Research]() - Location: Sydney ยท Melbourne - Remote: Yes - Team: Operations - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: August 7, 2026 ## Job description [Pluralis Research](https://pluralis.ai) carries out foundational research on [Protocol Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07890): multi-participant training of foundation models where no single participant has, or can ever obtain, a full copy of the model. The purpose of Protocol Learning is to facilitate the creation of community-trained and community-owned frontier models with self-sustaining economics. As a Founders Associate (Business Operations), you'll build up to owning end-to-end projects across go-to-market, operations, and "the 100 other broken things" that need fixing in a startup. One day, you'll be managing campaigns directly with our CEO, the next you'll be fixing a broken integration or engaging with contributors. This is by no means an easy gig, but it is the best entry point into a startup one could ask for - exposure to all facets of an AI business, working direct with the exec team at a time of rapid growth. # Key Responsibilities * GTM Execution: You want to own and drive go-to-market strategy and execution - supporting our growth and partnerships initiatives. * Operational Excellence: Build and maintain operational infrastructure: processes, tooling, reporting. You find something broken, you relish in fixing it. * Strategic Projects: Exposure to strategic projects across partnerships, community, marketing and ecosystem development. * Business Ops: Directly support our founder & CoS in day to day operations of the business. * High Agency: Pick up and run with whatever is the most important task on any given week. # What We're Looking For * In General: 1-2 years of experience in management consulting (tier-1), high-growth startup operations, or venture capital. * High Agency: Demonstrated bias toward action. You default to doing, not asking for permission. * Strong analytical toolkit: comfortable building models, pulling apart data, and synthesising findings into clear recommendations. * Excellent written and verbal communication. You can draft a professional memo and rally an executive team behind it. * Genuine interest in AI: Whether current models, decentralised systems, or frontier technology. You may be non-technical, but you're curious enough to go deeper than the average person. # Bonus Points * Show us what you tinker with that's AI related on weekends. * Experience with highly complex technical infrastructure. * Highly succinct in actions and impact. # Compensation & Benefits * Competitive base salary. * Equity that represents meaningful ownership in an early stage startup. * Remote-first culture. * Regular cadence of offsites and opportunity to work in the US. * Direct access to the founder and exposure to every function of the business. # FYI's * This role is only open to candidates with full working rights, based in Australia. * Applicants must have professional-level English proficiency (written and spoken). * Pluralis is a remote team across Australia and the US. You'll need to be comfortable working across timezones and collaborating with a diverse, distributed group. * Recruiters: we aren't looking for agency support at this time. We'll reach out if we need help. Backed by [Union Square Ventures](https://www.usv.com) and other tier-1 investors, we're a world-class, deeply technical team of ML researchers. Pluralis is unapologetically ideological. We view the world as a better place if we are able to implement what we are attempting, and Protocol Learning as the only plausible approach to preventing a handful of massive corporations monopolising model development, access and release, and achieving massive economic capture. If this resonates, please apply. ## Apply [Apply on Pluralis Research]() Canonical job page: