Founder’s Associate | Start-up | Cybersecurity & AI | London | Hybrid
About the Company
Hyre AI is partnering with a fast-growing, well-funded cybersecurity company on a mission to solve one of the biggest challenges on the modern internet: proving who’s human in a world dominated by bots, scripts, and AI impersonators. Their technology protects some of the most trusted names in financial services and beyond, and they’ve just raised a multi-million seed round to accelerate growth. Now they’re hiring a founder’s associate to join a small, exceptional team building the future of online trust.
About the Role
As a Founder’s Associate, you’ll work directly with the founders, supporting how the company explores, applies, and scales AI across the business. This is a highly exposed role where you’ll sit close to decision-making, helping turn ideas into action in an environment where priorities are evolving quickly as the company grows.
You’ll be involved in building processes across the business, helping shape how projects are scoped, tested, and delivered in practice.
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You’ll work alongside founders, engineers, and product leaders to understand what the technology is doing, why it matters, and how it fits into the wider company strategy.
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You’ll help capture and structure feedback from customers and the market, supporting better prioritisation and decision making.
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You’ll explore how AI can be used across the company to improve how work gets done, supporting experimentation with tools, workflows, and systems.
NB: Please note, this role requires 3–4 days on-site in the office, ~5 minutes from Liverpool Street Station.
Skills & What We’re Looking For
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Strong organisation and follow through: you can take a messy problem and turn it into clear next steps
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Comfort in ambiguity: you don’t need constant direction to make progress
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Excellent communication: you can write clearly, summarise well, and keep people aligned
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Interest in startups: you’re excited by early-stage environments and moving fast
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AI curiosity: you’ve used AI tools and/or been involved in AI-related projects (uni, personal, internship, anything)
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Good judgement and discretion: you can handle sensitive context and represent the company well
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Bonus: experience working in a startup environment, with small and agile teams.
Salary & Compensation
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Salary range: £30,000 – £40,000
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Stock options: share in the company’s growth
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Employer matched pension
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High impact learning, mentorship, and exposure to real production systems
Why Join Innerworks?
If you want to:
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Build a career at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and real-world systems
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Learn directly from experienced engineers and founders
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Develop skills that compound rapidly rather than doing narrow, repetitive work
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Be trusted early and grow into larger responsibilities over time
This is an exceptional place to start and shape your career
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