Founder's Associate

Nango (YC W23) lets developers build product integrations with AI, enabling applications to connect to the real world. More than 500 paying customers rely on Nango today, including Replit & Ramp. We are a YC-backed, mid-seven-figure ARR company with a team of 14 from AWS, GitHub, Okta, Snyk, Netlify, Uber, Samsara, Workato, and other top-tier dev tools.

About the role

We are hiring a Founder's Associate to work directly with the two founders across all aspects of running and scaling the company. This is a highly transversal role with broad exposure to strategy, growth, product, and operations. It is an exceptional opportunity to learn how a startup is built and scaled from the inside.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the founders on the highest-leverage problems across the company, spanning product, go-to-market, strategy, operations, finance, and hiring.
• Own ambiguous, high-impact projects end-to-end. One month you might reshape our pricing, lead discovery for a new AI opportunity, prepare the groundwork for launching a new product, or rethink our positioning based on customer and market research.
• Help define how Nango grows by researching markets, ICPs, competitors, customer needs, and emerging trends in AI and developer tools.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to turn strategy into execution and ensure our biggest priorities actually happen.
• Build AI-powered systems, automations, and internal tools that help Nango scale without adding unnecessary operational overhead.
• Lead company-wide initiatives such as offsites, ESOP administration, certifications, compliance projects, internal tooling, or other cross-functional programs.
• Own and continuously improve core business operations, including finance, legal, billing, vendor management, contracts, and other operational processes as the company grows.
• Act as an extension of the founders, working on whatever is most important to building Nango into a category-defining company.

Requirements

• You want to become a founder one day—or you’re excited by the opportunity to help build a company from the inside and grow into a key leadership role.
• You have a technical background and are comfortable writing code, working with APIs, and building automations. You’re likely an engineer by training or experience.
• You use AI extensively to research, write, analyze, prototype, and automate your work, and are constantly looking for ways to increase your leverage.
• You’re fascinated by startups, B2B SaaS, developer tools, and AI, and naturally enjoy understanding products, markets, customers, and company strategy.
• You’re exceptionally analytical, structured, and able to quickly learn unfamiliar domains, whether that’s pricing, legal, finance, compliance, or go-to-market.
• You’re comfortable owning ambiguous problems without a playbook and driving them through to completion.
• You communicate clearly, think independently, and earn trust across technical and non-technical teams.

Nice to have

• You’ve been a founder, an early startup employee, contributed to open source, built developer products, or have experience in a fast-growing B2B software company.

Location

This is an in-person role in San Francisco.

Pay

$140K - $180K