Apply forFounder's AssociateLondon, United Kingdomfull timehybridfounding team
FirstStage is an AI recruitment platform that makes hiring better, faster and cheaper. We help businesses automate their hiring processes while dramatically improving the candidate experience.
We’re already used by startups, scaleups, recruiters, consultancies, listed companies, and more. Our tech has cut screening time by 90% and candidates rate us 4.6/5. We’ve grown 400% in the last 3 months— this is your chance to join us at the ground floor!
About the Role
We are hiring a Founder's Associate to work closely with our founder to drive marketing, generate leads, book demos and support the sales process.
You will:
- Drive growth through tried and tested lead generation as well as experimentation
- Build a content marketing engine to grow brand awareness (+ your own personal brand)
- Work directly with customers to improve adoption and gather feedback
- Support across product, funding, hiring, and operations
- Work from different Central London locations 2 days a week (co-working spaces, coffee shops, etc.)
About You
We are looking for a self-starter and highly motivated individual who is excited about driving the growth of an AI recruitment startup.
You:
- Are a self-starter and highly motivated individual
- Learns fast and thrives under pressure
- Has an active interest in AI
- Creates engaging content (writing, social media, video, speaking, etc.)
- Is motivated by execution, not just ideas, and can grind to achieve results
- Is risk tolerant, comfortable in the deep end, and resilient
- Is highly personable, driven but humble
Your previous experience should be at least one of:
- New business development or 360 recruitment
- Talent acquisition or recruitment experience
- Growth hacking, outreach and/or marketing automation
- Degree in business, sales or marketing
- Entrepreneurship and/or early startup life
About the Hiring Process
These are the steps of our hiring process:
- Apply online using FirstStage (obviously!)
- Have an initial 15 minute chat
- Walk through your CV - 60 mins
- Competency interview - 90 mins
- Offer
What You’ll Get
- Salary + Commission + Share Options (meaningful early equity)
- 30 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- MacBook Air
- Flexible, hybrid working
- Training and mentorship from an experienced founder and advisors
- Rapid career progression opportunities as we grow
About FirstStage
- We’re a British, early stage, bootstapped tech start-up, achieving 400% customer growth in 2025
- We build AI and automations to cut admin out of the recruitment process and improve candidate experience
- Our main product uses AI prompting to automate the management of inbound job applications, reducing the time spent sifting and screening candidates by 90%, and consistently achieving 4.6/5 candidate satisfaction
- Founded by Luke Morton, AI advocate and tech entrepreneur. Luke personally bid over £30m in business while scaling his last tech team to 500 people, and IPO’d the business at £200m
- Luke is a big believer in growing talent having set up training academies and mentoring networks — this is your chance to join at the ground floor!
