Founder's Associate; Placement Student

Founder's Associate (Placement Student 12 Months from June 2026)

Location: London, UK (Shoreditch)

Schedule: Full-time (36 hours/week — 4 day work week Mon‑Thurs)

• Mon/Wed/Thurs:
  In office | Tues:
  Remote | Fri:
  Off

This internship offers a unique opportunity for candidates to gain hands‑on experience in sales and account management. The intern will work directly with a growing sales team, contributing to lead generation, account management, and podcast‑driven growth strategies. This is a chance to shape the future of the sales process, learn from industry experts, and play an active role in a variety of sales and marketing activities.

This is a high‑exposure execution role where you’ll act as the Founder’s force multiplier — with a special focus on the following areas:

• Marketing Operations
• Executive Function (C‑Suite Enablement)

You’ll sit at the heart of our GTM engine, helping build and run the systems that will take us to £1M ARR in 2026
. This role is perfect for someone who wants to learn GTM, agency operations, sales, and strategy by working directly with the Founder, Managing Director (MD), and Chief of Staff (CoS).

You will ensure that:

• Sales + Marketing workflows are organised, clear, and consistently followed.
• The Founder arrives to every external meeting prepped
  , and leaves every meeting with structured follow‑ups
  .
• Outreach, nurturing, and pipeline hygiene are maintained.
• Marketing assets and content get created, organised, and ope rationalised.
• No lead, insight, or next step is ever lost.
• Founder time is spent on high‑value work
  , not admin or friction tasks.

If you struggle with detail, follow‑through, or organisation, this probably isn’t the role for you. The expectation is that you’ll organise yourself brilliantly as you manage and tweak an executive operating system that maximises our Founder’s hard work.

If you want to spend all day “thinking strategy” without ever updating a CRM, drafting an email follow‑up, or turning voice notes into usable documents, you’ll find this frustrating.

If you’re not willing to ask questions upfront, chase people for clarity, and then make an informed decision to move things forward, this role won’t be a good fit. If you’re not ready to take ownership for keeping the Founder and leadership team aligned, this will feel overwhelming.

If you want something “chill” where your work doesn’t really move the needle and you’re not accountable for showing your work and presenting results regularly, this isn’t it.

If you love being the person who makes everything run smoothly, you’ll thrive here.

If you enjoy turning chaos into clean systems, big ideas into actionable plans, and messy conversations into crisp notes and next steps — you’ll be in your element.

If you’ve been looking for a role where you can learn cutting‑edge strategy and execution in sales, marketing, growth strategy, and operations directly from a Founder and senior leadership team
, this is that role.

You’ll see the immediate impact of your work in:

• Pipeline quality (i.e. more qualified leads, higher conversion rates)
• Revenue growth
• Founder capacity
• Overall health of our GTM engine

Support the Founder and leadership team to build and activate a fully operational, high‑value revenue engine capable of delivering £1M ARR in 2026
.

• Building and maintaining a clean, accurate, and actionable CRM + pipeline
• Implementing a reverse‑engineered funnel with weekly/monthly revenue targets
• Supporting a consistent weekly sales sprint system
• Helping rebuild inbound + outbound GTM motions, including:
• Partnerships
• Founder‑led brand building
• Strategic content (including PR & Thought Leadership)
• Website + SEO hygiene
• Podcast as a GTM channel
• Co‑owning the day‑to‑day GTM ops once you’re fully ramped

This Q1 Rock is complete when:

• The pipeline is clean, reverse funnel is implemented, weekly sales rhythm is active
• Q1 pipeline targets (~£75–85K qualified pipeline) are achieved
• You are fully trained and effectively owning the pipeline and supporting ops

• ~25–30 outbound touches/week (FA‑led)
• ~3–4 discovery calls/week (Founder‑led, supported by you)
• Weekly EOW GTM summary + BI snapshot…