Founder’s Associate (CEO Office) — Founding Team

The one-line pitch

Work directly with Chris Hughes to build a travel-first fintech from the inside — high ownership, high pace, real responsibility .

The important bit (even if you’re not applying)

If you travel a few times a year and hate hidden FX costs/fees:

👉 Join our waitlist: https://sinder.ae/

👉 Follow Sinder for launch updates and beta invites.

(Seriously - most people reading this won’t apply. The waitlist is for you.)

About Sinder

We’re building a UAE-based travel money product (AED account + card) for people who travel often and care about transparency. Our customers are expats, professionals, and frequent travelers who want a better default for spending abroad.

Why this role will “make your career”

This isn’t an assistant role. It’s a generalist operator role with real outcomes.

You’ll be in the CEO office helping drive the company’s biggest priorities: growth, partnerships, go-to-market, launches, research, and execution. You’ll ship every week.

If you like ownership, learning fast, and being close to the decisions - this is it.

What you’ll do

You’ll run a rotating set of high-impact projects, like:

• Launch & growth: run experiments that increase waitlist → activation → usage
• Partnerships: research and pursue travel/loyalty partnerships (airlines/hotels/OTAs)
• Customer insight: interview users, synthesize pain points, turn them into product decisions
• Ops & execution: fix messy processes, improve onboarding, remove friction, make things scale
• Strategy: build concise 1-pagers that drive decisions (pricing, positioning, priorities)
• Special projects: whatever is most important this week (it’ll change often)

What your first 90 days could look like

We’re intentionally being concrete here:

In the first 2 weeks

• You’ve learned the product, customer, and metrics
• You’ve shipped your first “small but real” improvement (copy, flow, automation, ops)

By day 30

• You own a weekly cadence: metrics + priorities + execution tracking
• You’ve run 1–2 experiments that move a measurable metric (waitlist conversion, engagement, referrals)

By day 60–90

• You’ve delivered at least one “big” cross-functional initiative end-to-end
• (e.g., a launch plan + execution, a partnership pipeline + first deal, or a major activation improvement)

You’re a strong fit if…

• You’ve done 1–6 years in a high-intensity environment: consulting, banking, startups, product, growth, ops, BD
• You can think clearly and execute quickly
• You write well (you can produce a crisp 1-pager, not a 20-slide deck)
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities
• You’re the kind of person who does the thing , not just talks about it

Bonus points

• You travel frequently (or have lived internationally)
• You’ve built something outside work (project, app, community, newsletter, side hustle)
• You’re unusually good at turning chaos into simple systems

What we offer

• Competitive salary + meaningful upside (role-dependent)
• Direct mentorship from the CEO/founder and front-row seat to building a fintech
• Real responsibility and steep learning curve
• Hybrid working in Dubai with a small, fast team