Founders Associate (Business Operations)

About the Role

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 directly with the exec team at a time of rapid growth.

Key Responsibilities

• GTM Execution: 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 Communication: Strong 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

FYIs

• 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