Founder's Office Senior Associate (Mini CEO / COO)

Role type: Full-time · Function: Operations · Location: TBD

Role overview

This is the Founder's Office 11.11 role — a senior operator who sits closest to AFS and runs everything he shouldn't have to. The mandate is simple and brutal: manage the founder's second brain, take the remaining 89% of the load off him, and multiply his output 11X while he spends only 11% of his time on it.

This is not an EA role and not a chief-of-staff-in-name-only role. It is effectively a mini CEO / COO — strategy, ops, monetisation, finance P&L, people and agents, all of it.

• Second brain — Owned end to end
• 11-day cycles — 1 day of AFS input
• 11 humans + 111 agents — Yours to lead

How the role operates

• 11-day build cycles. Work is shipped in 11-day sprints, each with a defined outcome, owner set, and proof of completion.
• 1 day of input from AFS. Out of every cycle, AFS gives one day of input — direction, review, unblocks. The other 10 days run without him.
• Second brain ownership. You maintain the founder's second brain: notes, decisions, context, commitments, follow-ups, and the systems that hold them. Nothing falls through.
• Default to decide. If a decision doesn't need AFS, it doesn't reach AFS. You decide, document, and move.

Key responsibilities

1. Second brain & founder leverage

• Own and operate the founder's second brain end to end — capture, structure, retrieve, and act on everything.
• Convert founder thinking into structured plans, briefs, and shipped outcomes.
• Protect founder time ruthlessly; filter, batch, and absorb everything that doesn't need him.

2. Strategy

• Translate the long-term vision into 11-day cycles, quarterly bets, and clear priorities.
• Run planning, review, and course-correction rhythms.
• Kill projects that aren't working; double down on what is.

3. Operations

• Run day-to-day operations across the org — systems, SOPs, protocols, and accountability.
• Own the operating cadence: daily build logs, attendance and 11:11 protocols, weekly and monthly reviews.
• Handle escalations, fires, and everything ambiguous. "Handle the rest" is literally the job.

4. Team of 11 humans + 111 agents

• Lead a team of 11 humans: hiring, onboarding, goal-setting, reviews, and performance.
• Build and manage a fleet of 111 AI agents that do the repeatable work — deployed, monitored, improved.
• Design the human + agent operating model: what humans own, what agents own, and where they hand off.

5. 111 channels & IPs

• Oversee 111 channels and IPs across the portfolio — output, quality, consistency, and growth.
• Maintain the content and IP calendar, pipelines, and ready-to-ship checklists.
• Track performance per channel/IP and reallocate effort to what compounds.

6. Monetisation

• Own how each channel, IP, and product makes money.
• Build monetisation models, pricing, offers, and partnership structures.
• Turn attention into revenue with tracked, repeatable playbooks.

7. Finance & P&L

• Own the P&L: revenue, costs, margins, burn, and runway.
• Build and hold budgets; approve and question spend.
• Report real numbers on a fixed cadence — no vibes, only proof.

Ideal candidate

• Senior operator who has run a business, a large function, or a founder's office before.
• Comfortable owning a P&L and defending the numbers.
• Builder mindset — ships systems, not opinions; uses AI and agents natively.
• High agency: takes ambiguous problems and returns finished outcomes.
• Leads people well and holds a high bar without drama.
• Fast, structured, proof-driven, and allergic to unnecessary escalation.
• Can hold strategy and execution in the same week without dropping either.

This is you if…

• You've owned a P&L and can defend every line.
• You close loops without being chased.
• You build systems, not to-do lists.

This is not you if…

• You need a brief to start moving.
• You escalate before you attempt.
• You want one lane and clean edges.

Compensation

Success in this role

• AFS's output is 11X'd while his involvement stays at ~11% of his time.
• Every 11-day cycle ships its defined outcome, on time, with proof.
• 11 humans and 111 agents run with clear ownership and minimal founder input.
• 111 channels and IPs publish consistently and grow.
• Monetisation is live and measurable across the portfolio.
• P&L is accurate, current, and improving.

Suggested performance measures

• % of decisions closed without AFS involvement.
• Cycle completion rate across 11-day builds.
• Founder hours consumed per cycle (target: ~1 day).
• Number of active agents deployed and work hours displaced.
• Channel/IP output volume and growth against plan.
• Revenue per channel/IP and total monetised streams.
• P&L accuracy, margin, and runway trend.
• Team health: retention, review completion, protocol adherence.

Hiring assessment

1. Describe the largest scope you've owned end to end. What was yours to decide, and what did you escalate?
2. Walk us through a P&L you owned — what moved, and what did you do about it?
3. You get one day of founder input every 11 days. How do you structure that day, and what do you do with the other 10?
4. How would you split work between 11 humans and 111 agents? Give a concrete example.
5. How do you keep 111 channels and IPs shipping consistently without becoming the bottleneck?
6. Pick one of our channels or IPs and tell us how you'd monetise it in the next 90 days.
7. Tell us about a time you took something completely off a founder's plate. How did you prove it stayed handled?