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Please note: We are seeking a contractor or freelancer to provide Founder’s Associate services to our Founder and CEO, outside of IR35. The work will be conducted fully remote and will feature support across GMT, EST, and PST time zones asynchronously. Applicants from the UK, EU and US geographies welcome.

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What is this Founder’s Associate role all about?

Growing and scaling a business is hard. It’s a process full of problems, pains, and the need to do more with less. We know this. At Oppero, these are often the factors that mean we can help founders with their growth problems.

With growth comes opportunity, and Oppero has just that. We're now looking for someone to join the team as a Founder's Associate, working directly alongside our Founder & CEO, Chelsea Seeds, and partnering with our existing Founder’s Associate, Lovisa.

And we want someone who loves to solve the kind of problems that businesses have to get through to succeed.

We need a force multiplier for our Founder/ CEO and the team. Someone who can help us deliver on a broader scale.

Sure, this person may help with some light admin duties, but a better description would be that this person operates like another founder across our portfolio, enabling Oppero to grow and achieve its ambitious growth targets over the next year.

For this seat, we're looking for someone who also brings some growth experience. You've spent time hands on experimenting with a variety of growth channels - you’ve run experiments, seen what works, and aren’t precious about killing what doesn’t. You’re also comfortable picking up delivery across our portfolio companies without needing anything explained twice.

A lot of this job is building the plane while flying it — you’ll regularly face problems where the path isn’t obvious, and you’ll need to figure it out. If that excites you rather than scares you, keep reading.

Values:

We believe that behaviours are often a reflection of values, and so here are the values that our founder is looking for in the person who will sit in the FA seat.

• A growth mindset — You believe that growth is a vital part of any role or company, and can demonstrate why and how this is important to you.
• A sense of purpose and urgency — You take pride in good work delivered, and tackle each problem with engagement and speed.
• Strong interpersonal integrity and discipline — You want to be known as the person who does what they say they will, when they say they will. You hit deadlines, know when you can’t, and proactively communicate to avoid mismatched expectations.
• Transparency and accountability — You want to have all of the context and be across all of the information because you want to own your successes and failures.
• Resilient and optimistic — Problems and setbacks are a part of the game for you, and you are confident enough in your identity to be able to roll with almost anything that may come up with our portfolio companies.
• Respectful and humble — You do not focus on who is right, and can change your position and view as you gain new insight, as well as being able to have the difficult conversations in an adult manner.

If you read this and think “people who know me describe me exactly like this”, then read on for the details of the work below.

What will the work involve?

This is not your standard transactional role, where you have a typical day-to-day, so explaining the role honestly is a tough thing to do.