Founder Associate

About this role

This is a remote position.
Company-wide visibility and execution

• Develop a strong understanding of priorities, progress, blockers, risks and upcoming decisions across Rayda.

• Attend leadership and company-wide meetings.

• Build strong working relationships with department heads.

• Identify issues or gaps that may require CEO attention.

• Prepare concise Founder Briefs covering key developments, risks, decisions and follow-ups.

• Maintain visibility across Rayda’s globally distributed team.

Commitment tracking and follow-through

• Own and maintain the company-wide commitments tracker.

• Track key commitments, owners, deadlines, dependencies, blockers and status.

• Proactively follow up with owners before commitments become overdue.

• Identify stalled or slipping commitments and understand the reasons.

• Escalate material issues where appropriate.

• Ensure commitments made by the CEO or during leadership discussions have clear ownership and follow-through.

Turning CEO priorities into execution

• Translate CEO priorities and ideas into clear, executable plans.

• Clarify desired outcomes and identify appropriate owners and stakeholders.

• Define key actions, milestones, dependencies and timelines.

• Coordinate with relevant departments and teams.

• Track progress and surface blockers.

• Keep the CEO informed without requiring the CEO to directly manage each initiative.

Supporting department heads

• Help department heads improve clarity, accountability, coordination and follow-through without becoming their manager.

• Follow up on agreed actions and deadlines.

• Help unblock cross-functional work.

• Coordinate activities involving multiple departments.

• Surface emerging operational issues and escalate persistent or material issues appropriately.

Creating leverage for the CEO

• Distinguish between matters requiring CEO attention and those that can be resolved elsewhere.

• Ensure the CEO is prepared for important meetings and decisions.

• Track important CEO commitments, decisions and follow-ups.

• Identify when important priorities have stalled or lost momentum.

• Protect the CEO from unnecessary operational noise while ensuring critical information reaches him.

• Respectfully challenge the CEO where priorities or allocation of attention appear inconsistent.

Internal communications and coordination

• Prepare internal updates, presentations, documents and briefing materials.

• Coordinate company-wide communications and follow-ups.

• Translate leadership decisions into clear actions and ownership.

• Ensure important information reaches the appropriate people.

Company events and initiatives

• Coordinate internal offsites, leadership sessions, hackathons, team gatherings and other company initiatives.

• Manage logistics, stakeholders, timelines and follow-through.

• Work with internal teams and external providers as required.

• Provide operational support for external events where required.

Executive and travel support

• Coordinate flights, accommodation, transportation and travel itineraries.

• Ensure travel plans and logistics are communicated well ahead of time.

• Coordinate important appointments where required.

• Anticipate logistical requirements around travel and major commitments.

Requirements

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to identify issues, take initiative and drive follow-through without constant supervision.

• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, commitments and deadlines simultaneously.

• Strong judgment and ability to determine what requires CEO attention, what should be escalated and what can be resolved independently.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence engaging employees, department heads, senior leadership and external stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-responsibility and ambiguous environments.

• Strong execution and coordination skills, particularly across multiple teams and stakeholders.

• Ability to proactively track commitments and ensure agreed actions translate into outcomes.

• High level of discretion and maturity when handling confidential or sensitive information.

• Confidence to respectfully challenge senior stakeholders and ask direct, constructive questions when necessary.

• Strong curiosity and willingness to develop a broad understanding of different business functions, including Product, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Finance, Operations and People.

• High adaptability and ability to respond effectively as priorities change.

• Experience in startup operations, business operations, Founder’s Office, executive operations, strategy, consulting, project/programme management, investment banking or another demanding environment is advantageous butnot mandatory.

• Prior Executive Assistant experience isnot required; exceptional early-career candidates with strong judgment, ownership and operating ability are welcome to apply.
Benefits

• Opportunity to work directly with Rayda’s Founder & CEO.

• Broad exposure across Strategy, Operations, Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance, People and company-wide execution.

• Opportunity to work in a growing, globally distributed technology company.

• Significant learning and professional development through exposure to company-wide priorities and leadership decision-making.

• Potential to grow into broaderFounder’s Office, Executive Operations or Chief of Staff responsibilitiesas Rayda and the individual develop.

Originally posted on Himalayas