Founder’s Associate

About the Role

We are looking for a highly motivated Founder’s Associate to work directly with the founder on high priority projects across the company. This role is ideal for someone who wants to learn how

an early stage startup operates and gain exposure to strategy, operations, fundraising, and sales.

As a Founder’s Associate, you will help solve problems across the business. One week you may be supporting investor research or preparing materials for fundraising. The next you may be helping build sales outreach lists, analyzing market opportunities, or improving internal operations.

This role is designed for someone who is curious, organized, and excited to work on a wide range of projects in a fast moving startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the founder on strategic and operational projects
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and industry mapping
• Support sales and partnership outreach efforts
• Assist with fundraising preparation including research and investor materials
• Build and maintain internal tracking tools, spreadsheets, and dashboards
• Prepare briefing documents and presentations for meetings
• Help coordinate cross functional projects across the company
• Identify operational improvements and help implement solutions

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in business, economics, engineering, or a related field
• 3.5 GPA or above
• Completed at least one prior internship in business, consulting, finance, startups, or a related field
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Comfortable working in an unstructured startup environment
• Ability to take initiative and work independently

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in startups, entrepreneurship, or venture capital
• Experience with Excel, Google Sheets, or basic financial modeling
• Experience with research or data analysis
• Exposure to sales, operations, consulting, or product work
• Marketing Intern 26 Summer Internship (Hybrid)

Organization Description: Sustainable Startup Marketing Intern

We are seeking a creative and engaging marketing intern, looking to gain experience working with a startup organization performing hands-on digital marketing activities. The selected intern will work alongside management to promote the company’s mission, drive awareness of our products, and engage followers. We are a young startup focused on our mission of sustainable packaging with a fun lens. At Tastee Tape, we like to engage our audience with exciting content that shifts the perspective of climate issues to a more hopeful, positive outlook. This role allows the candidate to be involved in building the marketing voice of the startup.

Duties:

• Building a creative digital presence that supports the company’s mission, and engages, informs, and motivates our target audience
• Develop, write, and proofread our community newsletter with potential customers and early adoptees
• Aid in the development of stakeholder and investor newsletters
• Creating and posting weekly content for all our social media platforms (Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.)
• Organizing posted information on the digital platforms to ensure marketing effectiveness related to promoting the company’s mission and awareness
• Maintain tracking and reporting across all digital marketing channels, using Google Analytics and other data collection methods
• Analyzing the effectiveness of the social media marketing and newsletters
• Work collaboratively on conducting website updates
• Brainstorming and proposing new and creative growth strategies through digital marketing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous internship experience in marketing and/or social media
• Experience with Mailchimp for newsletters

Required Qualifications:

• Marketing major or a related field
• Must have a strong background in using, organizing, and posting on digital platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
• Experience with Photoshop or other photo editing software
• Stays on top of social media trends and understand or are interested in the ins and outs of social media algorithms
• Analytical mindset that can delve deep into metrics and data to find the narrative behind the numbers
• Passion for the sustainability
• Ability to multitask across multiple projects with ability to prioritize
• Proven ability to be a hands-on team player where no task is too small
• Ability to work within tight deadlines, adjust to changes in priorities and balance
• short-term needs with long-term strategic initiatives
• Creative and excited to learn in a fast-paced and energetic environment
• Extremely organized, detail oriented and self-motivated
• Excellent writing and proofreading skills