Founder's Associate, Office of the CEO

About the role

Podium is hiring a Founder's Associate to sit in the Office of the CEO and build Eric's external presence from the ground up. This is not a content writing job. It's one of the most unique early-career opportunities in tech right now.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI agents and workflows to capture raw material at scale; monitor what's being said across channels, surface relevant trends, capture insights from meeting transcripts and customer conversations, and feed the content pipeline.
• Write and publish a consistent drumbeat of high-impact, founder-led content on LinkedIn, X, and other owned channels. This is the core job.
• Shadow our CEO. Talk to customers. Interview front-line employees and company leaders to capture raw material and transform it into social optimized content at a high velocity.
• Develop a distinct founder voice and a narrative that demonstrates Podium’s credibility, expertise and differentiation. Help develop us as a category-defining voice in applied AI.
• Own social engagement end-to-end -- not just publishing, but building workflows to comment, repost, like, and share consistently; maintaining a hit list of influential voices in the business, AI, and SMB space; and showing up in the right conversations to build Eric's presence and keep Podium in the zeitgeist.
• Develop a distinct founder voice and narrative that positions Podium as the category-defining voice in applied AI for local business.
• Stay obsessively current on trends in AI, SaaS, SMB, and the verticals Podium serves -- this person should already be all over X and immersed in these conversations before they apply.
• Create long-form content when needed: essays, op-eds, bylines that build category authority.
• Work with marketing and sales on moments worth amplifying -- launches, customer wins, category-defining data.

Requirements

• Exceptional problem-solver and fast learner -- figures things out, generates ideas without being asked, and operates with full autonomy
• Deep AI fluency and genuine hunger to build agents and workflows -- not just a user, a builder; should be able to show us what they've built or tinkered with
• Exceptional writer and communicator -- able to produce sharp hooks, strong long-form POVs, and content that actually earns attention; social media fluency is a plus but underlying writing quality matters more
• High executive presence -- polished, self-aware, and comfortable being in the room with a CEO week after week
• Entrepreneurial spirit -- drawn to the upside and ownership of this role, not just the job description
• High output, low ego -- produces a lot, takes feedback fast, not precious about drafts
• Strong understanding of B2B SaaS, AI, and local business -- writes about our business with credibility, not just fluency

Nice to have

• Experience building agentic content workflows (not just using AI tools, but wiring them together)
• Familiarity with vertical industries (auto, home services, healthcare/aesthetics)