Founders Associate Intern

About The Company

TalentPluto is a Y Combinator-backed startup building the hiring stack for high-growth companies. We run two connected products: a talent network that places engineering, go-to-market, and operations people into fast-moving startups, and an AI recruiting tool that lets a hiring team run candidate search, tiered enrichment, rubric-based scoring, and outbound campaigns directly from their assistant. We work with dozens of venture-backed startups across AI, developer tools, fintech, and healthcare. The team is small and founder-led, and interns work on live problems rather than practice ones. The Opportunity

Responsibilities

• Own discrete, high-impact projects end to end for the founders, from framing the question through to the recommendation and the follow-through.
• Research markets, competitors, customers, and internal data, and turn findings into clear written recommendations.
• Move between strategy, analysis, and hands-on execution depending on what the week requires.
• Build lightweight process and documentation where none exists, so the same work does not have to be redone.
• Track commitments across the team and make sure decisions turn into action.

Requirements

• Strong judgment, organization, and follow-through on work with limited supervision.
• Excellent written communication, including the ability to synthesize a messy problem into a clear argument.
• Strong research skills across both public sources and internal data.
• Comfort switching between strategy, analysis, and execution.
• Ability to work on ambiguous projects with limited structure.
• High ownership mindset and self-direction in a remote startup environment.