Founder's Associate, Encord
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Data platform for AI training
Posted today
Data platform for AI training
101-200 employees
Posted today
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To solve AI alignment by tackling the real bottleneck: data quality.
Role
Who you are
- This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious, multi-talented individual who wants to see the inside of a fast-paced scale-up and work closely with the co-founders and senior team
- The ideal candidate is a superstar who is willing to work hard, roll up their sleeves and support the founders in their day-to-day tasks, while learning about every aspect of what it takes to run a fast growing business
- A do-er with a founder's mentality — comfortable rolling up your sleeves for anything from an internal slide deck to a client demo, and energised by building something from the ground up
- You take end-to-end ownership of broad, ambiguous problems and think from first principles to get to a result — without needing hand-holding
- Obsessed with outcomes: you work best when given a goal and the autonomy to find a way there, iterating scrappily and resourcefully until it's done
- Entrepreneurial and comfortable context-switching rapidly — a candidate interview, an Excel model, and a vision-pitch draft might all land in the same afternoon
- Detail-oriented and proactively communicative — your team is always up to date, things rarely slip, and you're already thinking three steps ahead
- 2+ years in a high-intensity, high-velocity environment — early-stage startup (founding team or first 20 employees), top-tier management consulting, investment banking, private equity, or a similarly demanding, execution-focused setting
- Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous brief, structure the problem, and drive it to a high-quality output end-to-end
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills — comfortable building Excel or Google Sheets models, analysing product usage data, tracking growth metrics, and drawing actionable conclusions from numbers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce polished decks, memos, and external-facing materials quickly and to a high standard
- Proven track record of managing multiple workstreams simultaneously without dropping the ball
- Bonus: prior exposure to B2B SaaS or AI/ML; experience supporting a founder or C-suite executive directly; familiarity with GTM functions such as marketing, sales ops, or customer success
What the job involves
- You will work directly with Encord's senior team and get unique visibility into an exciting, high-growth, mission-based scale-up
- Work directly with the co-founders and other members of the senior team on a variety of projects and tasks: from presentations and spreadsheets, to basic reporting and various growth initiatives
- Research: ranging from customer research to identifying new opportunities to supporting strategic decisions
- Track the ROI of various growth channels to improve resource allocation and identify new growth curves
- Design, release, and improve a careers page to attract the next wave of Encord talent
- Ensure we keep our start-up atmosphere as we scale: plan and coordinate activities and events (e.g. team outings, in-office events)
- Be an integral part in growing the business — support Encord's presence on social media, conferences, and more
- Crunch numbers on customers' usage of the product to help inform our Customer Success team's quarterly success planning
Our take
It has become increasingly clear that the next generation of AI applications will be driven by data-centric approaches concentrated around training data creation, management, and evaluation. Crucial within this process is the annotation or 'labelling' of data. Traditionally, such annotation has been left to human workers, which has historically made this part of the process of AI development expensive, slow, and difficult to scale.
Encord offers a computer vision annotation platform that automates a number of manual labelling tasks. Its suite of tools is designed for collaboration across roles and teams, from domain-expert annotators to project managers and machine learning engineers. This allows companies to iterate 10x faster, and develop and deploy high performing models in less time whilst saving on annotation costs.
Demand is clearly there: since its launch in 2020, Encord has facilitated the annotation of more than 100 million frames and images and served customers in verticals such as medical imaging, smart cities, sports analytics and satellite imaging. Furthermore, usage is scaling rapidly, with the number of labels generated on the platform growing ~70% month-over-month.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2026
$60m
SERIES C
Aug 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $107.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
- Strong in-person culture: 3–5 days/week in our London, SF, and NYC offices
- Flexible PTO to fully recharge
- Annual learning & development budget
- Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
- Bi-annual company offsites, twice-weekly team lunches, and monthly socials
- Company lunches twice a week
- Clear, accelerated growth opportunities as the company scales rapidly
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
Company HQ
North Beach, San Francisco
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Leadership
Eric Landau
(CEO)With MScs from Harvard and Stanford, Eric spent 8+ years as a senior quant at DRW deploying ML at scale—before co-founding Encord to make data the core of AI development.
Ulrik Stig Hansen
(President)Ulrik spent 3+ years in Sales & Trading at J.P. Morgan and holds science master’s degrees from UCL and Imperial—before co-founding Encord to transform how AI handles data.
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