Founders Associate Intern at Dryft in San Francisco, CA

Summary: Dryft builds artificial intelligence to automate complex human decisions in manufacturing operations. In this role, you’ll work directly with the CEO and CTO on various important topics, including product, sales, hiring, and operations, while taking on high-ownership responsibilities across the team. Responsibilities: - Work with customers & engineering on product - Build and automate scalable processes across GTM, product and engineering - Shape and build the culture of our growing team (e.g., hosting our lego night) - Own recruiting and candidate experience - Support the CEO & CTO on cross-functional projects. Pick up high-leverage work across ops, eng, and GTM as it comes up - whatever the team needs most Required Qualifications: - Hands-on & resourceful - you have a founder's mindset: you don't wait for instructions, you make things happen. Whether it's a customer call, a product test, or a hiring setup, you jump in, find creative ways forward, and get things done - Professional & detail-obsessed - you earn trust with structure & reliability - Community builder - Systems thinker. You design processes that scale - in code, in operations, and in how people work. You think in data and automation - Prior experience at VC-backed startup, VC or top-tier consulting - Willingness to be onsite in SF 6 days/week, starting ASAP (we support visa) Required Skills: Product Management, Process Automation, Community Building, Systems Thinking Important Skills: Startup Experience Nice-to-Have Skills: Resourceful Benefits: Willingness to be onsite in SF 6 days/week, starting ASAP (we support visa).