Founders Associate - Growth, Strategy and Execution

VenueScanner; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - GBP 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic marketplace company in Greater London is hiring a Founder’s Associate to work closely with the CEO. This role focuses on driving growth initiatives, partnership development, and executing priority projects. The ideal candidate will have 3–7 years of relevant experience and a strong analytical mindset. Responsibilities include leading demand-side partnerships, turning complex challenges into manageable tasks, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This unique opportunity offers real ownership and insight into a fast-growing company’s operations.

Benefits

Dynamic work environment

Ownership of projects

Exposure to senior leadership

Qualifications

• 3–7+ years’ experience in consulting, startups, or commercial roles.
• Proven ability to drive execution and solve complex problems.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact growth initiatives and partnerships.
• Coordinate across Marketing, Product, Commercial and Ops teams.
• Track performance across growth and operational metrics.

Skills

Consulting experience

Complex problem solving

Partnerships and growth channels

Analytical skills

Project management

Clear communication

Familiarity with CRM tools

AI tool usage

Tools

HubSpot

Notion

Asana

Job description

We’re hiring a Founder’s Associate to work directly with the CEO at VenueScanner.

This role is designed for someone who wants maximum exposure, responsibility and learning inside a fast-growing marketplace business — and who thrives on solving messy problems, moving fast, and owning outcomes.

You’ll operate as an extension of the Founder: identifying the biggest opportunities or bottlenecks facing the business, turning them into structured plans, and driving execution across teams.

A significant part of the role will focus on growth and partnerships, but the scope is intentionally broad. This is a role for someone who wants to understand how a company actually grows and operates — commercially, operationally and strategically.

The core goal of this role is: 👉 Increase the Founder’s leverage by owning and executing the company’s highest-impact initiatives.

What You’ll Work On

Growth & Partnerships (Primary Focus)

You’ll lead high-impact growth initiatives, particularly demand-side partnerships that drive event creation, enquiries and bookings on VenueScanner.

This includes:

• Identifying and structuring distribution partnerships with:
  • Travel, booking and planning platform
  • Event creation and ticketing tools
  • Corporate perks, concierge and workplace platforms
  • Communities, media and content-led platforms
• Exploring embedded, API or white-label distribution opportunities
• Building structured business cases (opportunity sizing, economics, execution effort, risks)
• Leading partner discussions, negotiations and deal execution
• Owning partnerships end-to-end: idea → agreement → launch → optimisation

This is a hands‑on, outcomes‑driven role — you’re expected to make partnerships actually work, not just get them signed.

Founder-Led Strategic & Operational Projects

You’ll also work directly with the CEO on high-priority projects, which may include:

• Market expansion or international growth analysis
• New revenue streams or commercial experiments
• Strategic supplier, platform or product relationships
• Go-to-market planning and execution
• Business planning, forecasting and performance analysis
• Investor, board or leadership materials

The mix will change over time. You’ll be trusted to figure out what needs doing and do it.

Execution & Cross-Functional Leadership

This role is heavy on execution, You’ll:

• Turn ambiguous problems into clear plans, owners and timelines
• Coordinate across Marketing, Product, Commercial and Ops teams
• Drive momentum and unblock issues quickly
• Own projects from zero → live → iterated
• Create simple playbooks so successful initiatives can scale

You won’t have a large team — you’ll lead through clarity, influence and follow-through.

Performance, Insight & Learning

You’ll be expected to think analytically and commercially:

• Track performance across growth, revenue and operational metrics
• Share clear, structured updates with the Founder and leadership team
• Identify what’s working, what isn’t, and why
• Translate learnings into repeatable frameworks and playbook

Skills & Experience

• 3–7+ years’ experience in consulting, high-growth startups, strategy, operations, growth or commercial roles
• Proven ability to break down complex problems and drive execution
• Experience with partnerships, growth channels, sales or commercial strategy is a strong plus
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable working with data, metrics and dashboards
• Excellent organisation and project management skills
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Experience in marketplaces, SaaS, travel, hospitality, events or consumer-tech is helpful but not required
• Familiar with tools like HubSpot (or similar CRM), Notion/Asana and analytics tools
• Uses AI tools to increase personal efficiency in research, analysis and execution

Why This Role Exists

This is not a typical Founder’s Associate role, You will:

• Work directly with the Founder on the business’s hardest problems
• Have real ownership, not shadowing or note‑taking
• See how strategy, growth, product and operations connect in practice

Working at VenueScanner

• Global business with a strong foothold in the UK market
• Distributed leadership and product team
• Commercial team based in London
• Operations team in the Philippines