ankar - Founder's Associate

• A highly organised, systematic operator with exceptional execution discipline • A true generalist who can move quickly across different workstreams throughout the year • Strong attention to detail and the ability to create order from ambiguity • Someone who can act as a force multiplier across high-pain-point areas of the business • Excellent communication skills and comfort working closely with founders and senior leaders • Strong judgement, high agency, and the ability to operate without needing heavy direction • Ideally, you would also have: • Experience in an early-stage or high-growth company, either as an early hire, founder, or operator • Experience building or significantly improving an operations function from scratch • Some exposure to hiring, recruiting, or talent operations • A strong understanding of GTM as an end-to-end function across sales and marketing • Experience supporting events, conferences, employer brand, or content distribution • Familiarity with automating workflows and making manual processes scalable • Culture at Ankar: • Culture at Ankar is how we think, build, and operate. We’re building a generational company that redefines how the world’s best R&D teams create and protect ideas. • Contrarian - we think from first principles: We think deeply, question assumptions, and build from first principles. The best ideas come from clarity and rigour. • Creative - we build with taste: ****We’re building the R&D tools for the AI era and shaping what applied research looks like over the next 20 years. We care about precision, quality, and systems that last. • Competitiveness - we play to win: We move with urgency and set a very high bar for ourselves and each other. Every win raises the bar. Every challenge sharpens us. • What we put behind our people • Building at the frontier takes exceptional people. We invest accordingly. • Health Insurance : Full private health & dental coverage for you and your dependents. • Pension: Flexible pension scheme with up to 5% employer matching on qualifying earnings. • Food on us: Team lunches twice a week, plus dinner when working late in the office. • Cycle to work: Green Commute initiative scheme (up to £3k) to help you get a new bike tax-free. • Way we work: We combine deep, in-person collaboration (3 days/week in our Shoreditch office) with flexibility and trust. What matters is ownership, impact, and results, not where you work from. • What else you might want to know • Compensation: We pay competitive salaries and will reward you with a substantial equity package. • Hiring process (the process can be as fast as you want it to be): • (1) 30min introductory chat with Operations Lead • (2) 30min introductory chat with Founder • (3) onsite: 45min with Founder and 45min case study with Operations Lead