Founders Generalist Operator

Role: Founders Generalist Operator

Priority Location: Latin America and South Africa

Working Hours: 9am - 5pm (Mon - Fri) US Pacific Standard Time

Salary Range: $1500 - $3000 USD ($) base salary per month with commission (depending on experience seniority and level of autonomy)

(The final offer is at the clients discretion and depends on the candidates interview result skills and experience.)

Type of contract: Independent Contractor

Type of job: Remote

About the Role:

The Operations Assistant will work closely with the companys Founder & CEO across a broad range of operational administrative recruiting and business priorities. This role sits somewhere between an Executive Assistant Operations Associate and junior Chief of Staff.

Youll work directly with the Founder & CEO across a wide range of prioritiesmanaging follow-ups and projects coordinating contractors and team members helping source and screen engineering candidates organizing the recruiting pipeline researching vendors or business questions building processes and systems supporting payments and basic finance administration preparing information for important decisions and taking ownership of new initiatives as they arise. The goal is not simply to complete assigned tasks but to identify what needs attention figure out how to solve it and drive it through to completion with minimal supervision.

The successful candidate will initially work closely with the CEO to learn the company his decision-making style current priorities and operational rhythms. The client is willing to invest significant one-on-one time in training and onboarding; however the expectation is that this investment will translate into increasing independence and autonomy relatively quickly.

Rather than waiting for a daily task list this person should be able to ask: What is currently taking the founders time that I can own improve organize or solve

The long-term goal is to create leverage for the founder by reducing context switching and ensuring that important operational priorities continue moving without requiring his constant involvement.

Key Responsibilities:

Executive Support & Strategic Leverage

• Act as a trusted operational extension and second brain to the Founder/CEO developing a deep understanding of their priorities working style and decision-making framework.
• Proactively identify bottlenecks time sinks and surface opportunities before they become urgent stepping in to take ownership without requiring repeated oversight.
• Translate ambiguous high-level ideas into clear executable action plans and drive them to completion.
• Help organize track and execute concurrent strategic initiatives to minimize founder context-switching.

General Operations & Process Building

• Operationalize and document core processes currently held in the founders head to make company workflows scalable.
• Research complex problems evaluate options and present concrete recommendations instead of simply escalating questions.
• Drive miscellaneous operational projects coordinating deadlines and follow-ups across internal teams and external contractors.
• Build structure and bring clarity to new initiatives with evolving or loosely defined scopes.

Recruiting & People Operations

• Manage candidate pipelines and coordinate interview logistics for technical and engineering hires to reclaim founder bandwidth.
• Assist with candidate sourcing initial screening and communication.
• Support onboarding workflows and contractor coordination as the team expands.

Finance & Administrative Operations

• Oversee accounts payable process contractor payments and maintain accurate financial records.
• Manage QuickBooks-related administrative tasks and light finance operations (or coordinate with external finance partners).

Required Qualifications & Skills:

The ideal candidate is a highly intelligent resourceful generalist who thrives in an early-stage environment where responsibilities are not always neatly defined.

• They should have:
• Exceptional critical-thinking and problem-solving ability.
• High cognitive horsepower and strong business judgment.
• A strong bias toward action and execution.
• The ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.
• Excellent prioritization skills.
• A proactive rather than reactive working style.
• Strong ownership and accountability.
• The confidence to identify problems and propose solutions independently.
• Excellent organizational and follow-through skills.
• Strong written and verbal English communication.
• The maturity to work directly with a founder in a fast-moving startup.
• An interest in learning across multiple functions rather than remaining within a narrow job description.
• A long-term mindset and desire to grow alongside the company.

Nice-to-Have:

• Previous experience supporting a founder CEO or entrepreneur.
• Startup or entrepreneurial environment experience.
• Executive Assistant Founders Associate Operations Associate or Chief of Staff-adjacent experience.
• Experience with QuickBooks.
• Accounts payable or finance administration experience.
• Recruiting sourcing or candidate-screening experience.
• Exposure to technical or engineering recruitment.
• Spanish fluency.
• Experience working with distributed teams or independent contractors.

Required Experience:

Founder