Company building
Founder Associate
Work as an extension of the founders across customers, hiring, research, operations, sales, and whatever matters most.
The mandate
Increase the founders’ bandwidth and make the company move faster on its highest-leverage problems.
The exact shape will evolve. We care more about the outcome you can own than preserving the boundaries of a job description.
The work
What day to day actually looks like.
The mix changes with the company’s bottleneck, but these are the recurring loops you should expect to own.
- 01
Set the week’s highest-leverage priorities with the founders, then own the work needed to close them.
- 02
Move between customer calls, candidate conversations, market research, sales follow-up, and internal operations.
- 03
Turn incomplete information into a crisp recommendation, decision memo, or operating plan.
- 04
Build lightweight systems and rituals so solved coordination problems stay solved.
The outcomes
What success starts to look like.
- Own a company-critical initiative from ambiguous question to measurable result.
- Give the founders back meaningful time without lowering decision quality.
- Build an operating system that keeps working after you move to the next bottleneck.
The person
Signals we look for.
You do not need to match every line. Show us evidence of slope, ownership, and the quality of judgment you bring to unfamiliar problems.
Could you own this at Trellis?
Apply with evidence of what you have built, changed, or learned unusually fast.