The opportunity as Founder Associate

Obra is building the world’s first full-stack AI hospital.

As Founder Associate, you’ll work directly with our CEO, Joachim, on whatever matters most to building the company.

Your job is to increase his leverage. You’ll take ambiguous problems across growth, operations, product, hiring, finance, and expansion, then turn them into finished outcomes. You’ll solve the problem first, then build a system so it stays solved.

This is not an executive-assistant role, a strategy-only role, or a job where you wait for instructions. We are looking for a company builder who can think clearly, sell, operate, use AI aggressively, and do the work themselves.

You should have already started something of your own and convinced real people to pay for it. It does not need to have become a large company. We care that you have experienced what it means to create something from nothing, sell without an established brand, and keep moving when there is no playbook.

You’ll begin as a generalist. If you are exceptional, you’ll eventually own and lead a major function at Obra.

Key Responsibilities

Company — You’ll work closely with our CEO (Joachim) to help run the company & improve our internal operating system.

• hiring Help design roles, source exceptional candidates, run interviews, and coordinate onboarding.
• finance Maintain financial reporting, monitor cash flow, coordinate payroll and invoices, and work with our accountants.
• investors Help prepare investor updates, manage information requests, and support future fundraising.
• legal Coordinate contracts, insurance, intellectual property, corporate requirements, and other work with external professionals.
• systems Improve how Obra uses AI, Notion, task management, meetings, documentation, and internal communication.

Strategy — You’ll work closely with Joachim to lay the groundwork for the company’s overall strategy.

• growth Launch experiments across paid acquisition, content, creators, partnerships, referrals, and conversion.
• sales Sell Obra to patients, partners, candidates, vendors, and anyone else we need to persuade.
• product Identify problems, define solutions, and work with developers to improve patient and internal tools.
• research Investigate markets, competitors, regulations, technologies, and new healthcare opportunities.
• expansion Help evaluate and launch new treatments, services, partnerships, and markets.
• special projects Attack whatever important problem does not yet have a clear owner.

Need to Have

• entrepreneurial**:** You have started a real business or project and sold something to real customers.
• sales: You can persuade people, handle rejection, follow up relentlessly, and close.
• ai-native**:** AI is part of how you think and work. You use it to research, analyze, automate, prototype, write, and operate faster.
• ownership**:** You can take a vague problem from discovery to a finished result.
• learning: you're an autodidact with impressive speed and resourcefulness. You regularly teach yourself the skills you need from scratch.
• trenches: you don’t hesitate to get your hands dirty in the trenches. You’re not too pretentious to grind it out.
• complexity: you're highly organized and can complete multiple projects concurrently.
• mindset: you calmly handle uncertainty and rapidly changing situations.