Founders Associate

Founder's Associate – Zero-to-One Venture Builder (New Media Business)

London | £60k–£80k

About the opportunity

We're partnering with two serial entrepreneurs, they've built every company from their own profits, with no outside investors and no debt, and they've exited two of them. Their current consumer brand is one of the UK's fastest-growing private companies.

Their next venture is a new content-led business, building a portfolio of brands across a range of consumer verticals. The thesis is written, the pilots have run, and the founder is now full-time on it. What he needs next is a small group of exceptional people to take individual verticals and turn them into real businesses.

What you'll actually do

You'll be handed a detailed thesis covering a long list of possible verticals. Within days, you'll come back with the one you want to own, or a stronger idea and the reasoning behind it. From there, it's yours to build:

• Size up an unfamiliar market fast: who spends money, where it goes and what a customer is worth
• Find, approach and sign multiple on-screen hosts, so the format never relies on one person
• Win sponsors and commercial partners
• Shape the format, then produce and launch it
• Run the numbers throughout: pricing, margins, ROI and the P&L of your vertical
• Share what's working with the other associates running their own verticals alongside you

You'll report directly to the founder and work closely with him. There's a lot of trust and very little hand-holding.

Who will thrive here

Industry background doesn't matter, and media experience isn't required. What matters is proof that you've built something:

• You've launched a product, brand, line of business or major account, and you can talk through the numbers and exactly what you did
• You'd rather test an idea with real customers this week than polish a plan for a month
• You're numerate and commercially sharp, and you think in terms of economics without being prompted
• You come back with recommendations, not a list of questions
• You'll happily do the unglamorous groundwork when that's what moves things forward
• You change your mind when the evidence says so, and you hold firm when it doesn't
• You'd love to build your own business one day and want to learn how it's done from the inside

Around 5–6 years' experience is ideal, but early-career candidates with a standout track record will be considered. Consulting, corporate, start-up backgrounds are all welcome where you can show real ownership.