Founder's Associate
Nango · San Francisco, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteBusiness Development$140k–$180k/yrFull-time
What You'll Do
- 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.
Who You Are
- 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 communicate clearly, think independently, and earn trust across technical and non-technical teams.
- Bonus: 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.