Founder's Associate
Job Summary
Job Description
Freight Hero, an AI startup backed by AI Fund and Dynamo Ventures, is seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial Founder's Associate. This high-impact role involves working directly with the founder on critical projects like financial projections, sales enablement, marketing strategy, and supporting business operations. The associate will lead strategic initiatives across finance, marketing, sales, and internal systems, gaining hands-on experience in building a tech-driven company from the ground up. The position is ideal for individuals looking to enter the venture capital or startup ecosystem and thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments. Responsibilities include building financial models, monitoring budgets, preparing investor updates, developing lead generation strategies, managing marketing campaigns, utilizing CRM tools, supporting sales messaging, coordinating cross-functional initiatives, improving operational processes, and implementing AI tools.
Must have:
- 3+ years in consulting, investment banking, or startup
- Business major or MBA candidate
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills
- Experienced with CRM/sales outreach platforms
- Technically curious and eager to explore AI tools
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Fast learner with a proactive mindset
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
Perks:
- Work side-by-side with an experienced founder
- Ground-level opportunity in a VC-backed startup
- Own critical financial and operational workstreams
- Diverse exposure across all business functions
- Be at the forefront of AI and logistics innovation
- Accelerate career trajectory in startups or venture capital
6 skills required
Job Details
About Freight Hero:
Freight Hero is an AI startup backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund and Dynamo Ventures that is bringing an innovative business model to the freight brokerage industry. As one of the key segments of the US supply chain that is mired with manual, automatable processes, freight brokerage is a prime industry for AI deployment.
Our founder is seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial Founder's Associate to join Freight Hero as one of its first hires. In this high-impact role, you will work directly with the founder to own critical projects such as financial projections, sales enablement, marketing strategy, as well as support business operations and lead strategic initiatives across finance, marketing, sales, and internal systems.
You’ll gain hands-on experience in all facets of building a tech-driven company from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity for someone who wants to break into the venture capital or startup ecosystem, and who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Own and build detailed financial models and projections.
- Monitor and report on budget performance, including actual vs. forecast.
- Prepare investor-ready financial updates and internal dashboards.
- Develop and implement lead generation strategies.
- Manage and optimize marketing automation campaigns.
- Use CRM and outreach tools such as Apollo, HubSpot, and Salesforce.
- Support messaging, positioning, and sales pipeline development.
- Coordinate and execute strategic cross-functional initiatives.
- Support operational planning, tooling, and process improvements.
- Identify and implement AI tools to streamline internal workflows.
What You Must Bring:
- 3+ years of experience in consulting, investment banking, or a high-growth startup.
- Business major, MBA candidate or equivalent.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills; comfortable owning projections and fin ops.
- Experienced with CRM and sales outreach platforms (e.g., Apollo, HubSpot, Salesforce).
- Technically curious and eager to explore AI-enabled business tools.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple workstreams.
- Fast learner with a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Comfortable operating in an environment with ambiguity and rapid change.
Why Join Us?
- Work side-by-side with an experienced, exited founder.
- Get in on the ground level of a VC backed startup with enormous upside potential.
- Own critical financial and operational workstreams from day one.
- Gain diverse exposure across all business functions in a pre-revenue startup.
- Be at the forefront of AI, logistics, and early-stage innovation.
- Accelerate your career trajectory in startups or venture capital.
We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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