Founding Growth & Partnerships Associate

Founding team · San Francisco Bay Area · Full-timeExpected pay: 70,000–80,000 USD per year Growth path: Chief of Staff or Head of PartnershipsReports to: Founder & CEO About BrderlessOur client, Brderless, is building a curated network for the tech ecosystem, bringing founders, operators, and investors together through invitation-only dinners, breakfasts, galas, and buildathons. The people in these rooms are the founders, CEOs, and executives behind some of the fastest-growing companies in the world.What makes the company different is that curation itself is the product. Every room is intentionally designed around who should meet, why they should meet, and what can come from those relationships, and it’s done with taste. In just 18 months, Brderless has grown to nearly $1M in revenue, welcomed 5,000+ vetted members, and built a fast-growing tech newsletter, all with a team of one. What you will ownThe roomsEnd-to-end production: sourcing and vetting attendees, running the day, and the follow-up that turns a room into a relationshipCuration judgement: knowing who belongs at a founder breakfast, who belongs at a builder hackathon, and whyBeing the person in the room when our founder cannot be. Not every week, but when the calendar collidesThe member systemOne source of truth on who is in the network, what they are building, and what they needCRM hygiene, intro tracking, and warm-intro routing that runs without anyone remembering to run itA standard follow-up sequence after every single roomThe machine underneathPlaybooks, templates, and AI-assisted workflows, so the tenth room costs a fraction of the firstAn honest audit of where our current process breaks, and the authority to fix itCoordinating the volunteers who help us on the ground in New YorkOur voice, and yoursThis one matters more than it usually does in a job like this.Room recaps, newsletter operations, and the content pipelineYou will post publicly under the Brderless name, and under your ownWe want your ideas and your face, not just your editing. Our founder is stepping into public view over the next few months and wants someone doing it alongside her Your first 90 days Day 30: Inside the networkYou know how curation works for each formatYou have shadowed a full room cycle end to end and taken over logistics for the next oneYou have delivered an audit of where our current process breaksYou are already making content Day 60: Running a roomYou own one room end to end, with the founder involved only on curationThe member CRM is live and accurateA standard follow-up sequence runs after every room Day 90: Owning the systemRoom production is a documented, repeatable system that belongs to youPost-room introductions and member retention are measurably upYou have been sitting in on partner conversations and understand how we make moneyYou have started one initiative nobody asked you to startWho we are looking forYou are good with people and good at systems.That combination is rarer than it sounds, and it is the whole job. You read a room, remember the details, follow up without being asked, then go home and build the automation so you never have to remember it manually again. Beyond that:You are comfortable being visible. Posting, hosting, introducing yourself to a founder you have never met. The back-office version of this role does not work.You have taste and standards. Our members are serious people and they can tell instantly when something is sloppy. Curation is our product.You work with high context and low instruction. Nobody here is going to sequence your week.You are hungry. You want this badly, and it shows in how fast you move.You take blunt feedback well and would rather build the machine than be photographed next to it.You care about tech and founders specifically. Throwing a good party and caring about this ecosystem are different skills, and we need both.You do not need a network yet. You do need the willingness to build one in public. Nice to haveYou have already handled sponsorship or partnership money, at any scale.An existing footprint in the San Francisco or New York tech sceneNewsletter, podcast, or content production behind youExperience with eventsA side project you built because nobody else was going to build it PracticalSome travel, mainly to cover rooms our founder cannot be at. Not every weekEvenings and some early mornings. Breakfasts and dinners come with the job.Full-time, working closely and often in person with the founder How we hireFirst conversation with our founder. Half of it is us selling you the company, half is us working out whether we build well together.A case study. We will ask you to audit how Brderless runs today and tell us what you would change. We want to see how you think and what you notice that we have stopped noticing. Optional: A paid one-week trial. A week working together tells both sides more than three interviews do. Final conversation, then a decision within days. We move fast.