📍 Location: San Francisco (with travel to Germany & US)
📅 Start Date: May 2025 (or earlier)
💰 Compensation: Competitive salary + strong equity
TL;DR
Dryft is building the Post-ERP world—an AI-native decision intelligence platform that automates procurement and inventory workflows for industrial companies. We replace outdated enterprise software & Excel with AI agents that make real-world, context-savvy decisions on how material flows through manufacturing companies.
As Founders Associate, you’ll work across product, operations, sales, and hiring — taking ownership of product & customer validation while also being involved in partnerships, sales and process automation. This is not a passive support role—it’s a high-impact position for someone who wants to shape a startup in a fast-paced environment from the ground up.
What You’ll Own
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High-Impact Product & Customer Projects (focus) 2️⃣
- Prototype & validate new use cases → Rapidly test and iterate on new workflows based on market demand and customer feedback. Own your own products/features end-to-end from idea, to prototype and validation.
- Own customer projects & shape the product → Work with our customers on a daily basis to implement Dryft, refine workflows, and translate insights into product improvements & road map
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2️⃣ Build Dryft’s Foundations for Scale (more work here later as we grow/in spikes)
- Sales & Outreach Optimization → Refine outbound strategies, and reduce manual effort in customer acquisition; own a substantial part of the process day-to-day by doing outreach, going to trade fairs, preparing & leading customer calls
- Recruiting & Hiring → Create a repeatable hiring engine—from sourcing to structured onboarding; own a substantial part of the process day-to-day
- Operations → Setup & run core infrastructure like payroll, office, domains and cross-border setups
3️⃣ Special Projects & Expansion (occasionally)
- Industry Exploration → Research new verticals & geographies for Dryft to enter
- Partnerships & Business Development → Build relationships with system integrators, trade groups, and key industry players through trade fairs, organizing events, etc**.**
- Fundraising support (over time) → Prepare materials, select top investors
Who You Are
Being highly entrepreneurial, hard working, organized & comfortable to work in fast-paced environments are the basics. You’ll succeed even more if you: