Founders Associate, Howbout

Salary not provided
Junior and Mid level
London

4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)

Howbout

Social calendar app to share time with friends.

Be an early applicant

Howbout

Social calendar app to share time with friends.

1-20 employees

B2CSocialSocial MediaMobileCommunity

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
Junior and Mid level
London

4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)

1-20 employees

B2CSocialSocial MediaMobileCommunity

Company mission

To redefine Gen Z's relationship with time.

Role

Who you are

  • 2-4 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, consulting or a similar commercial role or a fast-growing technology company
  • Appreciation for quality: You strive to analyse problems and present solutions at a level of excellence
  • Coachability: You absorb data and feedback easily, adapting and improving quickly
  • Collaboration: You collaborate effectively with a variety of team members of different seniority. You have strong proficiency in Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides) or Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and project management tools like Notion and Slack
  • Grit: You persevere towards challenging goals which may take weeks or months. You have strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to troubleshoot unexpected issues on the fly
  • Growth mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow
  • Hustle: A strong work ethic, team player mentality and ability to work independently across a range of diverse tasks
  • Leadership: You're able to unlock the fullest potential of those around you through coaching, motivation, and vision-casting
  • Management: You can manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment to tight deadlines and with a commitment to always delivering at a high quality
  • Ownership: You accept full accountability and take initiative to find solutions to achieve results
  • Proactive positivity: You move on from challenges stronger and happier and bring care and intention to how your words and actions make others feel
  • Sense of humour: We don’t take life too seriously at Howbout!

Desirable

  • Bachelor's degree from a globally recognised university
  • Experience working as a Founders Associate in a VC-backed startup

What the job involves

  • Everything and anything. You'll have full insight into every aspect of the business. The right person for us is someone who can think big picture enough to lead on an entire project but also has the attention to detail needed to execute effectively on a specific task.
  • Supporting goal setting & KPI planning, organisational design philosophy and supporting the performance of business areas
  • Performing data analysis, building metrics dashboards and talking to our users to identify behaviours and trends that could point to opportunities, challenges or problems within the app
  • Helping to source and hire key talent into our dynamic and energetic team
  • Assisting with financial and operational reporting and communications to the board and existing investors, as well as supporting future fundraising efforts
  • Undertaking strategic competitive, commercial and market research to ensure we’re ahead of the game, no matter what direction we’re heading in
  • Researching and performing cost-benefit analysis on new software and initiatives to improve productivity and team welfare
  • Championing culture and team-building by organising strategy offsites, planning socials and maintaining an exciting, productive office environment

Application process

  • 1. Apply here and tell us these 3 things:
  • A) What excites you about working as a Founder’s Associate?
  • B) What about Howbout specifically inspired you to apply?
  • C) Tell us about one app on your phone that you use daily and couldn’t live without (and why)
  • 2. Video call with one of our co-founders
  • 3. Take-home challenge & follow-up interview
  • 4. Final in-person interview

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Howbout is a social calendar app looking to take the stress out of planning private trips, outings, and meetups. Users can synch calendars from other sources and with each other to check availability, make plan pages with dedicated chats, and add polls, maps, and even event countdowns.

For a social app launched over the pandemic period of prohibited in-person meetings, Howbout has demonstrated remarkable growth in evolving into a calendar app that revolves around circles of friends. It currently has over 4 million downloads worldwide and users in over 125 different countries, generating hugely positive customer reviews.

This is a big coup: customer onboarding is a key obstacle for any app requiring high levels of uptake amongst social circles. Especially given people’s predisposition to using simpler (if less efficient) means like WhatsApp group chats.

This issue may have been what caught out similar social planning app MESH, which was launched in the early 2010s and appears to have fallen off. Howbout has had a strong start with an impressive Series A and awards under its belt. Today’s social media climate is perhaps more inclined towards leveraging different forms of social media so this high-growth company could be the one to break through.

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Kirsty

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Insights

Strong hiring activity

Most candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

31% female employees

Company

Employee endorsements

Open and honest communication

"At Howbout, the founders are especially good at keeping all employees in the loop with the high-level company direction at regular all-hands..."

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Nov 2022

$2.6m

SEED

Mar 2021

$0.7m

SEED

Total funding: $3.4m

Company benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Generous share option package
  • Opportunity to shape the direction of a high-growth startup as one of its earliest employees
  • Regular company events with a social team
  • Day off in your birthday week and extra annual leave for every year at Howbout
  • Professional development budget to support training, skills & progression
  • Social allowance - £500 per year to spend on plans with friends
  • Remote working policy to allow you to work abroad
  • Forward-thinking, enhanced employee wellbeing policies
  • + more as we continue to put in place additional benefits and perks

Company values

  • Heart
  • Hustle
  • Hard Work
  • Humility
  • Ownership Thinking

Company HQ

London, UK

Leadership

Ex-corporate lawyer focused on the tech sector, Neil heads up our product & business vision. Previously awarded “Student Leader of the Year” at University of Exeter.

Duncan worked as a spacecraft engineer before Neil convinced him that co-founding Howbout would be as exciting as putting satellites in the sky.

Ex-investment banker turned private equity investor, Jake’s focused on harnessing & applying our data, analytics and trends as well as our financials & forecasting.

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