Founder's Associate
US$120,000 – US$180,000 / yr base salary
Posted 1 Oct 2026
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- Expected experience
- 1–3 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$120,000 – US$180,000 / yr |
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Field of studyEngineering, Mathematics, Science, Technology
Study levelBachelor's
SnapMagic is building the digital growth engine for the global electronics industry.
More than 2 million engineers use SnapMagic every year to discover electronic components and design products faster. Behind the scenes, we're building the operating system for electronics design: one of the world's largest electronics component databases, a platform the industry already trusts, and a new generation of AI tools that take engineers from idea to working hardware faster than ever before.
With strong revenue growth, proven product-market fit, and backing from leading Silicon Valley investors, like Y Combinator, we're scaling fast and building the team to take us there. The next chapter of how the world's hardware gets designed is being written now, and we want you in the room for it.
The Opportunity
We're hiring a Founder's Associate: a seat right next to the CEO of a category-defining company, built for the future founder who wants to learn what it takes to build something big by doing it now.
You'll work alongside the CEO to divide and conquer a wide range of work that touches every part of the business: finance, recruiting, tooling and special projects, and everything in between. Wherever something is slow, manual, or broken, you'll find and fix it, building the automations, workflows, and AI-powered tools that make the whole team faster.
This is a builder's role, not a coordinator role, and it's one of the fastest ways to learn how a cutting-edge startup really works. Some days you'll be wiring up an automation between our CRM and Slack. Other days you'll be untangling a vendor issue, getting a support queue under control, or turning a messy manual process into something that runs itself. You'll be exposed to every part of the business, solving high-impact problems across the entire company, and absorbing everything it takes to build one, all while making a real mark from day one. The common thread: things get done, and the company gets more capable because you were here.
What You'll Do
This role is fluid by design, and it flexes with what the company needs most. You'll own work like this:
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Leverage Creation & AI Automation: Find the repetitive, manual, and slow parts of how we work, then build the automations, agents, and internal tools that eliminate them. Use AI to multiply the output of the CEO, the leadership team, and the company.
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CEO Execution Support: Take recurring and one-off tasks off the CEO's plate, from research and follow-ups to logistics and vendor coordination. Keep things moving so the CEO's time goes to the highest-leverage work.
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Finance operations: Run the monthly finance cycle: send customer invoices, run aging reports every two weeks, answer billing questions, run payroll, and close out expense receipts each month. Review spend and cut what we don't need.