Operations Associate - The Bridge
About this role
About The Bridge
The Bridge is Entrepreneurs First San Francisco residency. It's a new product, therefore it's moving and growing fast. If you're into the earlier stage of a product, this might be your way in.
The role
You own the ops behind The Bridge in London, end to end. The Bridge runs four cohorts a year, two of them run by the London teams. You own the full talent cycle for those two, the summer and winter cohorts, from the day a founder applies to the day they land with us in San Francisco. You put the processes in place, keep them running long term, and work hand in hand with the summer and winter cohort teams in London and with the Bridge team in Paris that drives the content, strategy and growth.
This is a build role. The machine is young, and you get to shape how it runs.
What you'll do
- Set up the processes that run the talent cycle, from application to arrival in SF, then maintain and scale them
- Ship tooling for the team: automations, dashboards, and a clean stack (Attio, Notion, Make, Airtable, Claude Cowork/Code)
- Improve what already exists and keep it sharp as we grow
- Come up with and run new events to source and convert the best founders
- Recruit our next cohort and own the funnel end to end
- Build new partnerships with people across the ecosystem
What to expect: the pace is fast and the bar is high. We care about clarity and output over face time or polish. Keep it simple, keep it straight. Who we're looking for
From freshly graduated to 2-4 years of experience, coming from rising early-stage startups, scale-ups, tier-one VCs, or anywhere relevant to the ecosystem. You have a background in ops, growth, or software engineering. Ideally, you want to build your own company one day, and you're doing this to learn from the people operating at minus one, and to meet them there.
What matters most
- High agency, a jack of all trades. You see what needs doing and do it. Nobody has to tell you twice, and no task is beneath you.
- Self-motivated. You run your own race, set your own pace, and don't wait for direction.
- Genuinely into the ecosystem. You'd rather spend your time around early-stage founders than VCs, and you understand how founders think.
You're strong on organisation, comfortable with both process and people, and a problem solver who thinks on their feet. Comfort with automation and AI coworking tools (Claude Cowork/Code) is a strong plus.
Company at a glance
Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors.
Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent.
EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more.
EF is backed by some of the world's leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark).
We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t.
For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com
We're hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers
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