Founder Associate / Program Designer (Strategic Initiatives)

Posted 3 days ago

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Summary

Turn Big Ideas Into Real Businesses I'm looking for a rare person... Someone who loves taking a founder's ideas and turning them into real products, programs, systems, and businesses that people actually use. This is not an operations role. This is not a project management role. This is a builder's role. You'll work directly with me (the Founder/CEO) to design, prototype, test, and launch new initiatives before handing them to our Operations team to scale. If you enjoy creating things that didn't exist yesterday, keep reading. Our business is at the intersection of real estate, AI, and education. Every few weeks you'll be working on something new. Examples include: - Creating AI-powered business workflows and tools. - Developing new client services from concept to launch. - Creating operating systems that improve how clients run their businesses - Creating innovative events and educational formats Coordinating with AI developers, marketers, and operations leaders to bring ideas to market. You're building Version 1 of something that could eventually become a major part of our company. You'll rarely be doing the same thing twice. You'll work directly with me, the founder... I think fast. Ideas come constantly. Sometimes they're incomplete. Sometimes they're ambitious. Your job isn't to tell me why they won't work. Your job is to understand what I'm trying to accomplish and help make it real. You'll also collaborate with our marketing leader, AI developers, operations leaders, and front-line staff to move ideas from concept to execution. You'll Love This Role If You... - Love building from scratch. - Naturally organize chaos into clarity. - Think in systems. - Learn incredibly fast. - Enjoy solving problems that don't have obvious answers. - Use AI every day to increase your productivity. - Prefer creating over maintaining. - Want your work to have a visible impact on a growing company. You Might Have Been... - Founder Associate - Chief of Staff - Product Manager - Startup Operator - Strategic Initiatives Lead - Program Designer - Innovation Manager - Entrepreneur - Startup Founder - Business Builder Titles don't matter to us. Your ability to build does. This Role Is NOT For You If... - You need detailed instructions before getting started. - You prefer maintaining existing systems over creating new ones. - You enjoy meetings more than building. - You wait for permission instead of taking initiative. - You become uncomfortable when priorities evolve. We're building much more than another business. We're building an innovation-driven company that continuously creates new products, services, systems, and AI-powered capabilities. If you join us, your fingerprints will be on many of them. Again, I'm not looking for someone to manage projects. I'm looking for someone who gets excited when a founder says, "I have an idea"... and immediately starts thinking, "I know how to build that." To apply, please reply and explain why you consider yourself the ideal candidate.

  • More than 30 hrs/week
    Hourly
  • 6+ months
    Duration
  • Intermediate
    Experience Level
  • $30.00

    -

    $60.00

    Hourly
  • Remote Job
  • Ongoing project
    Project Type
Skills and Expertise
Mandatory skills
Program design
Business Innovation
Activity on this job
  • Proposals:50+
  • Last viewed by client:2 days ago
  • Interviewing:
    1
  • Invites sent:
    1
  • Unanswered invites:
    0
About the client
Member since Feb 1, 2005
  • United States
    Houston8:02 PM
  • $693K total spent
    312 hires, 56 active
  • 45,957 hours
  • Education
    Mid-sized company (10-99 people)

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