Founders Associate - Growth, Strategy & Execution

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 → optimisatio
  

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