Founders Associate, North America

Vancouver, CanadaOn-site

Requirements

experience in consulting, investing, startups, strategy, operations, finance, marketplaces, revenue, or another demanding analytical or generalist environment.
You do not need to have done a role like this before, but you do need to have shown that you can take on hard problems, create clarity and momentum, and drive real outcomes.
The combination of business need and your ability to step into it will determine what comes next.

Founder’s Associate, North America Reports to: Chris Berry, Managing Director, North AmericaLocation: Vancouver, Canada, HybridCompensation: CAD $70,000 to $110,000 base, plus equity, depending on
Compensation CAD $70,000 to $110,000 base, depending on experience, plus equity.

Zen’s mission is to fully staff classrooms, so all children can thrive and educators avoid burnout.
We do this by combining a product that schools and educators love with a hard-working, education-obsessed team.
Since launching in North America, we’ve been growing 4x year over year.
That kind of growth creates hard, complex, urgent problems across the business.
We’re now looking for a Founder’s Associate, North America to work closely with our leadership team as we scale.
This is a role for someone energized by these challenges.
Someone who can move quickly, create clarity from ambiguity, and turn rapid growth into better systems, sharper decisions, and stronger execution.
The right person will be able to operate at both altitude and ground level, shaping strategy, doing sharp analysis, and getting deep into frontline processes when that is what the business needs.
Too many teachers are leaving the profession, not enough are coming in, and school leaders are being forced to manage daily staffing gaps with limited budgets and limited visibility.
We’re building a better way for schools to find, vet, and manage temporary educators.