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Operations
Remote (Global)
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Founder's Associate
Work directly with the CEO to bring structure, speed, and operational leverage to a fast-moving startup.
About Cendra
Cendra is building the operational layer for hospitality.
We help property managers and hospitality operators run faster, with more automation, better coordination, and less manual work across day-to-day operations. As the company grows and execution accelerates, we're looking for a highly organised Founder's Associate to work closely with the CEO and help create more structure around the company's operating rhythm.
About the Role
This is not a traditional assistant role.
This role sits across founder support, finance and admin coordination, investor reporting support, partner reporting, contractor coordination, sales and GTM visibility, and general operational follow-through. You will help ensure that important work does not get lost, external stakeholders receive timely responses, internal reporting is clearly surfaced, and the CEO has the context needed to make decisions quickly.
You should be comfortable acting as a central coordination layer across both external stakeholders and key internal functions, while knowing clearly what requires escalation, approval, or direct founder involvement.
This role is ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, highly reliable, strong in writing, comfortable with numbers and spreadsheets, and excited by the idea of helping build operational leverage inside a fast-moving startup.
What You'll Do
- Coordinate with cross-border accountants in Turkey and US, lawyers, investors, PMS partners, and third-party contractors
- Supervise payments to tax offices, contractors, and suppliers
- Monthly projects to be submitted to Turkish technology park
- Track inbound requests (email, Slack, WhatsApp, phone) that come to the CEO and make sure important threads are followed through properly
- Help prepare documents, reports, legal/compliance materials, and supporting information for external stakeholders
- Setup invoice forwarding and/or collection, gather required US legal forms, and organise bookkeeping inputs for the accountant
- Support monthly investor updates and related reporting preparation
- Support partner reporting workflows, including commission calculations and tracking
- Monitor pending items that require CEO input and ensure they are surfaced within agreed response windows
- Prepare relevant context, drafts, and next steps so decisions can be made quickly
- Help close loops once approvals are given
- Attend relevant internal sales, marketing, product and GTM calls where needed and summarise key updates for the CEO
- Review team-prepared sales, campaign, and GTM reports and extract the high-level signal
- Flag meaningful changes, declines, improvements, bottlenecks, risks, or items requiring attention
- Bring more structure, consistency, and accountability to recurring operational processes
What Success Looks Like
- Important follow-ups do not get missed
- External stakeholders receive timely and well-prepared responses
- Finance and admin workflows become more organised and reliable
- Investor and partner reporting runs more smoothly
- The CEO has clear visibility into what is pending, what is changing, and what needs a decision
- Sales and GTM reporting is synthesised into clear high-level takeaways rather than noise
- Operational loose ends are reduced significantly across the business
Who We're Looking For
- Extremely organised and detail-oriented
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional professional English & Turkish is a must
- High level of discretion and judgement
- Comfortable handling sensitive information
- Good with spreadsheets, reporting, and structured follow-up
- Able to summarise complex threads into clear action points
- Proactive, resourceful, and calm under pressure
- Comfortable working closely with a founder in a fast-moving environment
- Able to build order from messy or fast-changing workflows
Nice to Have
- Experience in startup operations, founder's office, executive support, finance/admin coordination, consulting, or similar roles
- Experience working with investors, legal documents, bookkeeping workflows, or reporting processes
- Experience coordinating across multiple external stakeholders
- Strong spreadsheet and reconciliation skills
- Familiarity with modern AI tools and automation workflows
How We Work
We care more about outcomes than rigid process.
If the right person wants to use AI-native workflows, automations, or their own systems to stay organised and move faster, that is welcome. What matters is reliability, judgement, discretion, and getting the work done well.
External communication and high-stakes decisions remain under CEO supervision.
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