This role is designed for someone at the beginning of their career who is curious, ambitious, and excited to learn directly from the founders in a fast growing startup.
The founding team is two people, which means the person who joins in this role gets real exposure to everything from client relationships to product strategy, investor communications, and all the decisions that move the business.
The Founder's Associate works directly with these two co-founders across strategy, operations, client communications, and internal coordination. Some weeks you're the person making sure nothing drops; other weeks you're leading a project that would otherwise sit in a queue indefinitely. You need to be genuinely comfortable switching between those two modes on short notice.
The role carries a lot of commercially sensitive context, so discretion is a baseline expectation. You'll also need the judgment to know when to move fast and when to flag something before it becomes a problem.
If you’ve already led large teams or have extensive management experience, this role is unlikely to be the right fit.
This is a hybrid role, in our office in Amsterdam 3 days per week, and you must have a legal permit to work in The Netherlands, we are not able to sponsor visas (HSM or other).
Founders Associate (early career)
Amsterdam (Hybrid)
Full-time
Fixed-term
The Role
What You'll Do
Founder Support & Operations
- Own the founders' follow-through: track open threads, decisions, and commitments across active workstreams and close them out or escalate appropriately
- Draft materials for board meetings, investor updates, and internal reviews, structuring the content rather than just formatting it
- Identify process gaps and fix them, without being asked twice
- Manage scheduling and coordination for high-priority external meetings and calls
- Own written communications with enterprise clients on behalf of the founding team, to B2B standard
- Draft proposals, briefs, scope summaries, and executive-facing updates
- Over time - grow to be able to represent Bloom Studios in client-facing interactions
- Lead discrete projects from scoping to delivery; examples from recent months include competitive analysis, supplier compliance reviews, and market-facing content programmes
- Research and synthesise information to support business decisions: market analysis, vendor evaluation, pricing benchmarks
- Build frameworks and processes that outlive the project that prompted them
- Act as the coordination layer between the founding team and the rest of the company, ensuring context gets to the right people at the right time
- Run cross-functional threads across a hybrid local and remote team
- Keep the operating rhythm of the business consistent: weekly priorities, meeting agendas, async updates
What We're Looking For (Essential Skills & Experience)
- 1-3 years of professional experience in a fast-paced environment, in consulting, a scale-up, an investment firm, or a startup in a generalist or operations role
- Track record of engaging in complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams
- Strong written communication: you can produce a client-facing email, a structured brief, and an investor-ready summary, each in the right register
- Commutable to Amsterdam for hybrid working (minimum 3 days per week)
Bonus Points (Nice-to-haves)
- Background in B2B SaaS, professional services, or enterprise client management
- Experience working across Dutch and international contexts, culturally fluent and comfortable with English as a primary working language
- Experience preparing materials for senior stakeholders: board presentations, strategy documents, executive briefings
- Familiarity with tools like Notion, Linear, Slack, and Google Workspace as a coordination stack
- Exposure to AI, creative production, or content technology
Why This is a Great Opportunity
- Immediate Impact: Your work will directly influence the success of our business from day one.
- Ownership & Autonomy: We hire people who take initiative and trust them to deliver. You'll have significant ownership over your domain.
- Move Fast, Build Faster: Our flat structure means no bureaucratic red tape. We empower you to make decisions quickly, allowing us to maximize our speed of learning and accelerate growth.
- Share in Our Success: This isn't just a job; it's a chance to be a foundational part of our journey, an apprenticeship to founding a startup from the inside.
- Foundational Role: This is a chance to get in on the ground floor. As we grow, you'll have the opportunity to help shape the future of your team and its practices.
- Collaborative Environment: You'll be joining a passionate, cross-functional team that values growth and is eager to help you grow and learn.
About us
At Bloom Studios, we're on a mission to accelerate creative work. We build a range of digital solutions from AI emerging technology applications, to custom AI tooling to solve visual content creation problems (at scale) for large multi-national organizations. Our digital products are centered around enabling humans with AI for commercial content creation.