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Founder Associate

Rayda

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Strong ownership mindset with the ability to identify issues, take initiative and drive follow-through without constant supervision.
  • Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, managing multiple priorities, commitments, and deadlines simultaneously.
  • Strong judgment to determine what requires CEO attention and escalate when necessary.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, engaging various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a strong understanding of priorities, progress, blockers, risks and upcoming decisions across Rayda.
  • Own and maintain the company-wide commitments tracker.
  • Translate CEO priorities and ideas into clear, executable plans.
  • Coordinate activities involving multiple departments and assist department heads.

Key facts

  • Remote from: Anywhere
  • Full time
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Organizational Skills
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Consulting
  • Adaptability
  • Curiosity

About the company

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Rayda

IT Infrastructure & Managed Services

Rayda is simplifying how businesses equip and support remote teams globally. We replace slow, fragmented logistics with fast, simple device procurement, management, and retrieval. From initial setup to final retrieval, we make every stage of device management easier, empowering companies to hire and equip the best talent, even in hard-to-reach regions. With end-to-end support across 170+ countries, Rayda breaks down barriers to remote success.

Company details

IndustryIT Infrastructure & Managed Services
Company size11 - 50

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Job description

This is a remote position.

Company-wide visibility and execution

  • Develop a strong understanding of priorities, progress, blockers, risks and upcoming decisions across Rayda.
  • Attend leadership and company-wide meetings.
  • Build strong working relationships with department heads.
  • Identify issues or gaps that may require CEO attention.
  • Prepare concise Founder Briefs covering key developments, risks, decisions and follow-ups.
  • Maintain visibility across Rayda’s globally distributed team.

Commitment tracking and follow-through

  • Own and maintain the company-wide commitments tracker.
  • Track key commitments, owners, deadlines, dependencies, blockers and status.
  • Proactively follow up with owners before commitments become overdue.
  • Identify stalled or slipping commitments and understand the reasons.
  • Escalate material issues where appropriate.
  • Ensure commitments made by the CEO or during leadership discussions have clear ownership and follow-through.

Turning CEO priorities into execution

  • Translate CEO priorities and ideas into clear, executable plans.
  • Clarify desired outcomes and identify appropriate owners and stakeholders.
  • Define key actions, milestones, dependencies and timelines.
  • Coordinate with relevant departments and teams.
  • Track progress and surface blockers.
  • Keep the CEO informed without requiring the CEO to directly manage each initiative.

Supporting department heads

  • Help department heads improve clarity, accountability, coordination and follow-through without becoming their manager.
  • Follow up on agreed actions and deadlines.
  • Help unblock cross-functional work.
  • Coordinate activities involving multiple departments.
  • Surface emerging operational issues and escalate persistent or material issues appropriately.

Creating leverage for the CEO

  • Distinguish between matters requiring CEO attention and those that can be resolved elsewhere.
  • Ensure the CEO is prepared for important meetings and decisions.
  • Track important CEO commitments, decisions and follow-ups.
  • Identify when important priorities have stalled or lost momentum.
  • Protect the CEO from unnecessary operational noise while ensuring critical information reaches him.
  • Respectfully challenge the CEO where priorities or allocation of attention appear inconsistent.

Internal communications and coordination

  • Prepare internal updates, presentations, documents and briefing materials.
  • Coordinate company-wide communications and follow-ups.
  • Translate leadership decisions into clear actions and ownership.
  • Ensure important information reaches the appropriate people.

Company events and initiatives

  • Coordinate internal offsites, leadership sessions, hackathons, team gatherings and other company initiatives.
  • Manage logistics, stakeholders, timelines and follow-through.
  • Work with internal teams and external providers as required.
  • Provide operational support for external events where required.

Executive and travel support

  • Coordinate flights, accommodation, transportation and travel itineraries.
  • Ensure travel plans and logistics are communicated well ahead of time.
  • Coordinate important appointments where required.
  • Anticipate logistical requirements around travel and major commitments.


Requirements

  • Strong ownership mindset with the ability to identify issues, take initiative and drive follow-through without constant supervision.
  • Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, commitments and deadlines simultaneously.
  • Strong judgment and ability to determine what requires CEO attention, what should be escalated and what can be resolved independently.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence engaging employees, department heads, senior leadership and external stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-responsibility and ambiguous environments.
  • Strong execution and coordination skills, particularly across multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Ability to proactively track commitments and ensure agreed actions translate into outcomes.
  • High level of discretion and maturity when handling confidential or sensitive information.
  • Confidence to respectfully challenge senior stakeholders and ask direct, constructive questions when necessary.
  • Strong curiosity and willingness to develop a broad understanding of different business functions, including Product, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Finance, Operations and People.
  • High adaptability and ability to respond effectively as priorities change.
  • Experience in startup operations, business operations, Founder’s Office, executive operations, strategy, consulting, project/programme management, investment banking or another demanding environment is advantageous but not mandatory.
  • Prior Executive Assistant experience is not required; exceptional early-career candidates with strong judgment, ownership and operating ability are welcome to apply.


    • Benefits

  • Opportunity to work directly with Rayda’s Founder & CEO.
  • Broad exposure across Strategy, Operations, Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance, People and company-wide execution.
  • Opportunity to work in a growing, globally distributed technology company.
  • Significant learning and professional development through exposure to company-wide priorities and leadership decision-making.
  • Potential to grow into broader Founder’s Office, Executive Operations or Chief of Staff responsibilities as Rayda and the individual develop.



    • Salary: N400,000 - N500,000

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