Founder's Associate, Gopuff
+ Company RSU’s (Restricted Stock Units) and bonus
Food, alcohol, and daily essentials delivery service
Posted today
Food, alcohol, and daily essentials delivery service
1001+ employees
Posted today
+ Company RSU’s (Restricted Stock Units) and bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver food, drink, supplies, and essentials to customers' doorsteps, safely and quickly.
Role
Who you are
- If you're resourceful, analytical, curious, and driven to build things from scratch, you’ll thrive
- A highly analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills
- Exceptional ownership and bias for action, this role requires autonomy and grit
- Intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn fast in unfamiliar environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Humility and a team-first mentality
- Proven ability to work in fast-paced, high-stakes environments
- A track record of building or significantly improving something from the ground up
- Experience working across disciplines, whether that’s in startups, consulting, strategy, operations, or product
- SQL, Excel/Sheets modelling, or other quantitative skills is a bonus!
- A generalist by nature, not bound by job titles or rigid functions
- Energised by ownership, speed, and solving hard problems
- Willing to take risks, ask the hard questions, and challenge the status quo
- Excited to work directly with founders and make your mark on the business
What the job involves
- We’re now looking for an exceptional Founder's Associate to work directly with our Founder's team. This is not your average role, it’s a launchpad. A rare opportunity to gain unmatched exposure to high-stakes decisions, drive 0-to-1 innovation, and solve pressing and ambiguous challenges
- Work directly with the co-founder on top-priority business challenges and opportunities
- Own and deliver 0-to-1 initiatives from concept to execution across strategy, operations, product, and commercial functions
- Design and optimise internal processes that improve efficiency, scalability, and cross-functional outcomes
- Ideate and launch new verticals and products, collaborating with teams across the org to bring ideas to life
- Dive into strategic and commercial problem-solving to uncover new growth opportunities
- Analyse large and complex datasets to drive decision-making
- Identify inefficiencies in cost, customer experience, and team workflows, and propose bold, data-backed solutions
- Wear many hats, shift gears quickly, and thrive in ambiguity
Our take
Gopuff was an early player in the last-mile delivery space, offering consumers access to a wide range of consumer goods (including food and alcohol) with delivery in ~30 minutes through its network of micro fulfillment centers, from which a fleet of drivers pick up and drop off orders.
Gopuff currently operates in over 1,000 cities and is adding more. The company has made several strategic acquisitions to charge its growth – including UKs Fancy and Dija, and US BevMo!. However, the company faces increased competition on all sides, from Getir (who recently acquired Gorillas), Glovo, and Zapp, as well as high operating costs.
The company has added a range of new capabilities to its platform, launching features to eliminate former pain points by including advance order scheduling, gifting, and in-store pickup. After abandoning plans to IPO in mid-2022, it is focusing back on profitability, though the company has faced some scrutiny over its methods and has had to search further afield for funding at a time when venture capital is scarce. Regardless, Gopuff is well set to remain a major player in the market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Dec 2021
$1.5bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jul 2021
$1bn
SERIES H
Total funding: $5.0bn
Company benefits
- Gopuff employee discount
- Career growth opportunities
- Internal rewards programs
- Annual performance appraisal and bonus
- Equity program
Company HQ
Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA
Leadership
Yakir Gola
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Founded GoPuff whilst studying at Drexel University.
Rafael Ilishayev
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Rafael studied at Drexel University with Yakir, where they co-founded Gopuff together in October 2013, and have been co-CEOs since.
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