Founders Associate - AI
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Founders Associate - AI
[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] is hiring a Founders Associate - AI to drive AI transformation across the organization. This operational role involves auditing teams, building AI agents and bots, deploying RAG systems, and driving adoption. The role reports to the CEO and requires deep hands-on experience with AI tools, Python, and a startup mindset. Based in London or Dubai.
About Us
We're building the world's leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets - empowering families, fueling local economies, and changing how millions access financial services.
Since our launch in 2019, we have transformed how money moves across borders with our operations spanning 6 out of 7 continents. We're growing fast, backed by world-class investors, and scaling a product that blends real world impact with cutting edge fintech innovation.
- Founded by Harvard grads and 3-time founders who previously built Segovia (acquired) and GiveDirectly (>$300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO in the world)
- Backed by top investors including Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, Unbound, Wamda, and more
- Built by global top performers from Bain, Google, McKinsey, Uber, Checkout, Bolt, and beyond
- Truly global team - 250+ people, 50+ nationalities, 50+ languages
- Guided by our values - ownership, impact, humility, and heart
About the Role
[Employer hidden] is looking for someone to fundamentally change how the company works with AI. This isn't a product role - it's an operational transformation role. You'll work directly with the CEO and founding team to identify high-leverage opportunities across every function, build the bots and agents that capture them, and drive adoption until AI-augmented work becomes the default.
We have 50+ people across research, data, operations, compliance, growth, and finance. The right person will see a massive opportunity to make people dramatically more effective.
What You'll Do
- Audit every team and function to map where AI agents, bots, and copilots can eliminate toil, accelerate decisions, or improve output quality
- Build and deploy AI agents; from internal Slack bots and document processors to research copilots and automated QA pipelines - using Claude, GPT, open-source models, custom fine-tunes
- Own the full stack: scoping, prototyping, building, deploying, measuring impact, iterating
- Design and run an internal AI adoption programme - training, templates, prompt libraries, office hours
- Work with the CEO to set quarterly AI transformation targets and report progress against them. This role has board-level visibility
- Evaluate and integrate third-party AI tooling and negotiate vendor relationships
- Build the connective tissue between teams: shared knowledge bases, RAG systems over internal docs, automated reporting, and cross-functional agent workflows
- Stay relentlessly current on the frontier and translate that into practical internal applications within days
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience building AI-powered tools and agents: not just using ChatGPT, but architecting multi-step pipelines, RAG systems, and autonomous workflows
- Strong engineering fundamentals: you can write production code, set up infrastructure, and debug at 2am if needed. Python is table stakes; experience with LLM APIs, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, etc.)
- A bias for speed and pragmatism over perfection
- Exceptional communication skills to sell AI adoption to skeptical teams, train non-technical users, and present to the board
- Experience working in a fast-moving startup or scale-up environment, ideally fintech
- A genuine obsession with AI and what it can do
- Comfort with ambiguity and a self-starting mentality
Nice to Have
- Experience leading or managing a small team
- Background in data science, ML engineering, or quantitative research
- Familiarity with compliance and regulatory environments
- Experience with MCP, agent-to-agent communication, or building tools that plug into existing SaaS platforms
- Prior experience at a remittance, payments, or neobank company
Our Values
Impact first. Team next. Accept reality. Propose solutions. Win with grit. Be proactively candid. Love the particular. Own it. Create positive energy. Maybe, even have fun.
[Employer hidden] is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply.
If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.
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