Founder's Associate, Strategy & Operations

Description

Job Summary: We are seeking an analytical, discerning individual to work directly with a Founder—driving priorities and bridging strategy with execution. Key Highlights: 1. Work directly with a Founder on key business decisions. 2. A high-learning, high-expectation role with accelerated growth. 3. Influence the company’s strategy and execution. At **Nexu**, we seek someone with strong analytical ability, sound judgment, and execution capability to work directly with one of our Founders. This role exists to help advance the company’s most critical priorities with clarity, accountability, and speed. You will be closely involved in decisions that move the business forward—connecting strategy with execution and ensuring key issues truly get resolved. This is not a traditional analysis role, but it does require strong applied data analysis skills to understand what is happening, identify opportunities or friction points, and translate insights into actionable decisions. ### **What You’ll Do:** * **Synthesize complex information across data**, projects, and market context into actionable recommendations for decision-making. * **Analyze business data** to identify relevant findings, patterns, risks, and opportunities for operations and growth. * **Relentlessly track commitments and pending items** for the Founder, ensuring clear ownership and deadlines. * **Identify organizational obstacles and operational friction points** before they escalate, proposing concrete solutions. * **Manage strategic special projects** without assigned owners—from design through execution and closure. * **Serve as the Founder’s liaison** with internal leaders, investors, strategic suppliers, and other external stakeholders. * **Prepare executive materials**, such as briefs, presentations, progress reports, and situational analyses. * **Design and maintain tracking of OKRs and priority initiatives.** * **Facilitate strategic communication** between the Founder and the organization to ensure alignment and clarity. ### **What We’re Looking For:** * **3+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, founder’s associate, chief of staff, or similar roles.** * Degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics, Actuarial Science, or another discipline with a strong analytical foundation. * **Advanced English proficiency. Part of the process will be conducted in English.** * Strong command of **applied business data analysis.** * Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. * Sound judgment to prioritize and drive topics with minimal supervision. * Clear, concise, and executive-level written communication. * Ability to interact effectively across all levels both within and outside the organization. ### **Tools and Work Approach** * Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets. * Comfort working with databases, tables, metrics, and analysis to support decision-making. * **Power BI,** Looker, or Tableau. * Project tracking and organization tools. * Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable materials. ### **What Challenge and Learning Does This Role Offer?** Being close to decisions that shape the business—working directly with a Founder at a company building something that didn’t previously exist. It is a high-learning, high-expectation role with accelerated growth, ideal for someone aiming to develop uncommon judgment and execution capability. ### **What We Offer** * Competitive fintech salary: MXN 70k–80k gross per month. * Performance bonus. * SGMM (Mexican Social Security Institute coverage). * 20 days’ year-end bonus (aguinaldo). * Hybrid work model in CDMX. * Personal leave days. * Flexible policies, including extended vacations and work-life balance support. * Birthday off. * TotalPass, providing access to gyms and fitness studios. * WeDoctors, offering medical, nutritional, and psychological support. * Career development and continuous learning plan. * Direct employment with full payroll registration (100% nómina). ### **Our Culture** We believe in ownership. We work by objectives—not by hours spent behind a computer. We strive for impact in everything we do, and we see every challenge as an opportunity to keep learning and growing—together.