About the role
The Founder's Office Associate at Taskly (a role many companies call Chief of Staff or Strategy & Operations Associate) works directly with the founder on whatever matters most this month, and finishes it. That might be a new-market launch, a board-style memo, a hiring push or a cross-team project that has no owner yet. You are the person who makes sure it gets done.
You would work with every team: engineering, operations, sales and finance, across India, the US, Canada and the UAE. Six months in, success looks like one launch or project you ran end to end and memos the founder trusts enough to decide from. It also looks like fewer loose ends, because you closed them. The work changes every quarter, so it suits someone who learns fast and likes finishing things.
What you’ll do
- Run cross-functional projects end to end. Set the goal, make the plan, chase blockers and send a weekly update until it ships. Close the loop when it does.
- Plan new-market and new-city launches with operations, sales and engineering: checklists, owners, payment and legal differences, and a go or no-go review.
- Write board-style memos and one-page decision briefs covering the question, the options, the numbers, a recommendation and what would change it. Write for a reader with five minutes.
- Support hiring with the talent team. Write role briefs, join the 45-minute conversations and help design the paid trial day for each role.
- Keep the founder’s priorities, decisions and follow-ups in one place, and run the weekly team meeting in the shared window, then circulate notes the same day.
- Pull numbers with SQL or Sheets, and research competitors and markets, to answer the founder’s open questions.
- Take on the odd job nobody owns yet, such as vendor research, a pricing check or the first draft of a policy.
What you’ll need
- 2+ years in a chief of staff, founder’s office, consulting, startup operations, product operations or strategy role.
- A writing sample: one clear page that ends in a recommendation, which you can show us.
- Comfort with numbers, including Sheets models, basic SQL and sanity-checking someone else’s estimate.
- A project you drove across teams without formal authority, and finished. Tell us how you kept people moving.
- Discretion with sensitive information, and judgment about what to bring to the founder and what to handle yourself.
Education: A degree is welcome but not required. Projects you finished and the memos you wrote matter more.
Nice to have
- Experience at a marketplace (Airbnb, Uber, Urban Company, Swiggy, Airtasker, TaskRabbit, Upwork) or another two-sided product.
- Having helped launch a product or an operation in a new country.
- Experience on a remote team that spans several time zones.
- A strong writing habit, such as a newsletter, essays or published case studies.
Skills and tools
- Chief of Staff
- Strategy and Operations
- Project Management
- Program Management
- Business Analysis
- Market Research
- Memo Writing
- OKRs
- Notion
- Google Workspace
- SQL
- Stakeholder Management
Where you’ll work
- Remote. Fully remote. Open to people who live and can legally work in India, the United States, Canada or the United Arab Emirates. You work from your own country, so there is no relocation and no visa to arrange.
- Shared hours. The team overlaps for two hours each weekday: 8:30–10:30 am Eastern · afternoon in Dubai, evening in India. The rest of your day is yours to arrange.
How we hire
- 1Apply in about five minutes: your resume and a few questions
- 2A 45-minute conversation with the person you’d work beside
- 3One paid day on a real problem
- 4A decision in writing, with the reason
A person replies to every application within ten working days, even if it’s a no.
About Taskly
Taskly is a marketplace for getting anything done. Someone posts a task in their own words — typed, spoken or as a photo — and people who have been reviewed and approved send offers at a firm price. They pick one, and it gets done: a TV mounted, a website built, a parent taught to use their phone. We’re live in Canada and India and opening to more countries, built by a small team that works remotely across India, the US, Canada and the UAE.
Questions about this role
Straight answers to what people ask most.
Is the Founder's Office Associate role remote?
Yes, fully remote. You can work from India, the United States, Canada or the United Arab Emirates, and the team overlaps for two hours each weekday: 8:30–10:30 am Eastern · afternoon in Dubai, evening in India.
How much experience do I need?
About 2–6 years. It’s a guide, not a cut-off: if you can do the work described here, apply.
What does the Founder's Office Associate role pay?
Pay isn’t listed here yet. It depends on the country you work from and your experience, and it’s discussed openly in your first conversation.
How do I apply?
Upload your resume on the application page and answer a few short questions. It takes about five minutes, with no cover letter and no account. A person replies within ten working days, yes or no.
What does the hiring process look like?
A 45-minute conversation with the person you’d work beside, then one paid day on a real problem, then a decision in writing, with the reason.
Is this an executive assistant role?
No. You would own projects and decisions with the founder, not their calendar, although keeping priorities and follow-ups straight is part of the job.
Something else? Ask it in your application. A person reads it and answers within ten working days.
We don’t use AI to screen, score or rank applications: a person reads every one. If you upload a resume, AI reads it only to pre-fill your form, and you check every field before you send.
Taskly is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of every background, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and nationality, and we don’t ask about any of them. If anything about the process doesn’t work for you, tell us in your application and we’ll change it.
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