Accelerate your career in a full-time generalist role at a top startup. For people with 1-3 years of experience, or proactive recent graduates.
What is a Generalist?
Generalist roles are flexible and varied by nature, giving you the opportunity to get stuck into different areas of a business. They’re perfect roles if you don’t want to specialise, and are keen to diversify your skillset. Our programme is designed primarily for people with some experience (1-3 years), particularly in consulting, corporates, or other startups or professional environments, who are keen to build a career in startups.
Charlotte Rowell: Making a real difference as a Founder Associate
Charlotte joined our generalist programme in April 2022, and now is making a huge impact as a Founder Associate at a tech-for-good startup. Read on to find...
Edward Anders: Why I chose the Founder’s Associate Role
Edward studied Economics and Politics at Bristol before joining Jumpstart's July 2021 cohort and landing a role at Compose as Founder's Associate.
Responsibility, growth and promotion: 9 months into working at a startup
Why Jumpstart?
30+
top startups pitching their roles to you.
£30-50K
starting salary (depending on experience) with equity or options. We’ll help you negotiate.
250+
alumni placed in top startups.
Founder’s Associate 🚀
Founder’s Associates are generalists who work directly with a startup founder on strategic initiatives, marketing, operations, product development, fundraising, sales and much more. This role is an exceptional opportunity for anyone keen to quickly climb the ranks and form part of the senior leadership team within a couple of years. Best suited to people with a little professional experience, whether that be in corporates, startups, scaleups, or otherwise.
Marketing or Growth Associate 💬
Marketing is about understanding the customer, and reaching the right people in the most engaging way. If you're people-focused and love thinking creatively, you might like a marketing role. Or, if you're interested in driving insights from data and running tests to work out the best channels to grow a business, a growth role might be for you.
Operations Executive ⚙️
Operators form the backbone of the company, making sure it runs efficiently and with a solid strategy. If you're super organised and practical, operations could be a great fit for you.
Business Analyst 📊
Analysts excel at crunching the data to find unique ways to improve products, make forecasts, and identify operational issues. The best Analysts can relate the detail to the bigger picture.
Something else? 🤔
Each cohort has a real variety of roles, so you’ll definitely find something that suits you. You might even be surprised about which role takes your fancy when you start hearing from the startup founders and teams. Our startup spotlights (where you hear directly from teams and founders over Zoom) demystify roles that can often be a little confusing when they’re written in a job description.
Upskill and fuel your startup career
“Without Jumpstart, I would never have had the confidence or knowledge to pursue a career in a startup. They open a door to the startup world whilst providing the support, community and education to help you walk through it.”
Georgia Mason Founder Associate, Tenyks
“Finding Jumpstart was a breath of fresh air. Being able to hear directly from the founder gives you a deeper understanding of what the role actually involves”
Emily Wood Head of Partnerships at Ledgy
“I love the variety involved in my day-to-day role. In fast-paced, high-growth startup fashion, my priorities and focuses change with the businesses, and the amount of exposure across the suite of business activities which comes with that is really cool.”
Charlotte Rowell Founder Associate @ Zero Gravity
“You get genuine practical training on the programme, which I use in my job everyday”
Paradis Farahati Omnichannel Analyst at Heroes
Our generalist programme is best suited to those with 1-3 years of experience who are looking to accelerate their career at a top startup, although fresh graduates are welcome to apply.