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Founders Associate

Instant

Instant

Sydney, NSW, Australia · Australia · Australia
Posted on May 4, 2025

Founders Associate

Business Operations
New York • NY
Instant is a technology company on a mission to power the world's most innovative brands, driving their revenue and retention on autopilot. We are in an exciting hyper-growth phase, expanding the business by over $1M in new revenue every month, have 4 products in market, entering and hiring in new global regions, raised $30M+ by top VC’s, and we want you to be a critical part of scaling this velocity even further!
This role is a partner to our Co-Founder and CEO, executing on the areas of highest impact across the business — continuing to make Instant one of the fastest growing companies to exist. This person should be a master generalist and force multiplier, part of a small elite team of super-achievers working within the Special Projects, CEO team. You will work on high priority tasks across the company, solving complex problems that enable us to scale.

Impact you’ll have

Lead a variety of high priority and needle moving projects to ensure we achieve our goals.
You’ll consistently execute on initiatives that move the needle on revenue, whilst removing any blockers halting our growth.
Enjoy great autonomy allowing you to identify problems, carry out analysis, design solutions and execute on them at speed
Collaborate with teams across Instant to solve critical problems
Work on multiple projects in parallel that will require you to be adaptable across multiple functions
Some previous projects have involved identifying new business opportunities, leading teams, and hiring talented people

What you’ll bring

2-6 years experience working within in a fast-paced environment (start-up, strategy consulting or investment banking for example)
You have a track record of being a top performer in several different areas
You are a hyper-logical and structured thinker
You can break complex problems into smaller ones and enjoy working with data to facilitate your work
You are curious in nature and passionate about making an impact. You can demonstrate this through various projects you have been involved in.
You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
You must be based in or willing to move to New York City.

Why be on this team:

Instant solves the biggest problem for online retailers. We don’t focus on vanity metrics, and instead our products drive significant volumes of additional revenue for ecommerce brands by bringing their lost shoppers back to convert.
We’re an A-player team, with talent from some of the best companies around the globe. Revenue obsession and speed are our two biggest focuses as a company. Instant will most definitely be the fastest moving company you’ll ever be apart of.
We’ve arguably built one of the most high-growth startup companies. Today, signing over $1-2M+ of new revenue each and every month. We now have the exciting challenge of maintaining this momentum as we continue to scale.
We’re incredibly focused on our expansion into North America, with a fresh new 35 person office in New York. We’re rapidly expanding our team, operations, inbound marketing, enterprise sales, etc in region. If we can grow this quickly in Australia, just imagine once we crack our growth model in the US over this coming year.
Our US growth is really starting to ramp. In February and March this year (2025), we grew by $950k ARR. Majority of customers come to us through inbound marketing channels.
We recently raised $18M in Series A capital, led by Hummingbird Ventures. From first conversation to money in the bank in 10 days. This valued the business at over $100M in just over 2 years. You can read more about Hummingbird Ventures here.
You can read more about the raise in the AFR here, or Smart Company here.
Velocity of revenue growth and speed of execution are the two biggest signals of product-market fit. Comparing Instant to other startups, our velocity is phenomenal. Max Meyer at Blackbird, the biggest venture capital firm in Australia and investor in Instant said recently “The team's combination of blistering speed and steadfast vision has seen them deliver a brand new product that customers love in less than 12 months. It’s one of the fastest-growing products we have seen at Blackbird.”
We 7X’d the business last year — the chart below benchmarks Instant vs other companies that have gone onto become unicorns. Instant sticking our head out amongst the rest.
Apply here or email me; liam@instant.one

Life @ Instant

💸 Competitive Salary

We commit to paying globally competitive salaries to our incredible team.

🐣 Equity in the company

Nobody is a renter. Everyone is an owner, having equity in the company so we can all benefit from our hard work and future success.

🎒 Company Offsites

We always aim to go away at points across the year as a company to celebrate achievements, as well as dig deep together on company strategy, opportunities and the exciting future ahead.

💚 Additional leave per year

In addition to the standard 4 weeks of leave per year, Instant also ensures the end of year shutdown (across Christmas and New Year) is a fully paid break.

💻 Tools

You’ll receive all new equipment including a MacBook Pro, monitor, and accessories.

🌇 Office Collaboration

Instant prioritises the value and energy of being together in person, based in our newly opened offices in Sydney or Flatiron, New York. We have a flexible balance, and work from home 2 days per week.

🇺🇸 Health Insurance

Health and high-quality medical insurance for our United States based employees.

🚀 A-Player Team

A-players want to work with A-players, and hence we take our team and talent very seriously. We work hard, stay focused on the things that matter, and celebrate the wins.

🎉 Company Socials

We allocate an annual social budget towards regularly having fun, taking a break and getting to know each other a little more as a team! Previously we’ve done Axe Throwing, Bowling, Go-Karting and even Surfing together… just to name a few.

🌱 Visa Sponsorship

We get it, it’s an arduous process, but we’re not scared of it. Instant has sponsored many visas for top notch talent to date.