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# Founders Associate at Elyos

- **Company:** Elyos
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elyos/b45590cc-94fc-4662-b08e-1ae4245c792f

## Job description

## About Elyos AI

We’re building the next generation of customer service with AI Agents. Our agents answer calls, reply to emails and WhatsApp messages, make bookings, take payments, and operate the CRM in the same way a human would.

We founded Elyos in June 2023 and took part in the Y Combinator S23 batch. Our founders spent four months in San Francisco living and breathing AI. Since then, we’ve been growing revenue ~30% month on month and shipping fast. It’s been wild so far - and we’re just getting started. We recently raised a $13m series A to turbocharge our growth.

## Why this role exists

This role exists to unlock constraint on our CEO's. You'll work directly with Pip to take things off her plate, multiply her output, and own the work that keeps our commercial engine running. Some of that work is strategic. Some of it is unglamorous. All of it matters. If you're the kind of person who finds it equally satisfying to build a US market entry strategy and to chase down a late invoice, keep reading.

## About the Role

- Start date: ASAP
- Location: London HQ (onsite, near Old St. Station)
- Reports to: Pip Brown, Co-CEO

## What you'll do

Commercial & GTM

- Analyse conversion and revenue data to surface the insights that sharpen our sales motion
- Support customer onboarding and ensure smooth handoffs to the Customer Success team
- Contribute to GTM strategy for new markets, including US expansion
- Own pipeline administration - research accounts, prep sales materials, manage follow-ups, and keep our CRM clean so Pip can focus on closing

Whatever It Takes

- Jump into customer conversations, support the wider team as it grows, guide strategic projects
- Pick up the things that don't fit neatly into anyone else's job description - and do them well
- This is a startup growing at 30% month-on-month. The pace is intense and the hours reflect that. We need someone who finds that energising, not exhausting
- Think 996 🚀

## What we're looking for

- 1-2 years of experience in a demanding, high-performance environment. Typical backgrounds include:
- Management consulting (MBB or similar tier)
- Investment banking
- Early-stage startup in an ops, commercial, or generalist role
- Founder's Associate at a VC fund looking to move operator-side
- Commercial instinct - you understand how businesses win customers, and you're energised by revenue. You could credibly contribute to GTM strategy, not just execute someone else's
- Analytical rigour - you can build a model, interrogate a dataset, and make decisions grounded in evidence
- Exceptional communication - you can draft an investor update, a cold outbound sequence, and a Slack message to engineering with equal clarity
- High agency - you don't wait to be told what to do. You see what needs doing and you go and do it
- No ego about the work - you're smart enough to do strategy and willing enough to do the admin. You genuinely don't mind doing both in the same afternoon
- Intensity - you're happy working alongside the founders at the pace a company at this stage demands, including evenings and weekends when the work calls for it

## Nice to have

- Experience in B2B SaaS
- Interest in AI, automation or the trades and field services industry
- You've built something yourself - a side project, a community, a business

Why Elyos?

- Impact: You'll directly unlock the growth capacity of the person signing every deal at a company growing 30% month-on-month. Your leverage is enormous
- Access: You'll sit next to the founders and see every dimension of building a YC-backed AI company - product, commercial, fundraising, hiring
- Growth: This is the fastest way to learn how startups actually work. We'll invest in your development and give you the room to grow into a leadership role as the company scales
- Team: A small, ambitious group of people in central London building something that matters

## Perks & Benefits

- 💸 Competitive salary & equity - we are building together, we win together
- 💪 Wellhub Gold subscription - access 1000's of gyms and health related activities (inc. GymBox, 1Rebel, F45 etc)
- 📚 AI-focused learning & development - stay ahead of the curve.
- ✈️ Team socials & annual offsites - cool destinations included (last year we went to Greece!).
- 🏥 Private healthcare - because your well-being matters.

## About Elyos

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Elyos AI builds fully autonomous AI customer service agents specifically designed for trades and field services businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Adrian Johnston (Co-CEO), Panos Stravopodis (Founder & CTO), Philippa Brown (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Field Service Software
- **Target customers**: B2B — trades businesses (plumbers, electricians, HVAC, fire & security, facilities managers) and field service operators
- **Mission or purpose**: To bring AI to the trades and field services, ensuring every call is answered, every job is captured, and both customers and operators have a better experience.

## Products & Services
- **AI Sales Executive**: A trained AI sales agent that handles inbound leads, books jobs, and chases quotes to keep the pipeline warm.
- **Scheduling AI Assistant**: Automates job scheduling optimized for engineer location, skillset, and customer preference.
- **Appointment Reminder AI Agent**: Reduces no-access rates with daily reminders to customers.
- **Daytime AI Agent**: A fully autonomous customer service rep that answers calls, manages emails, and books jobs during business hours.
- **Out-of-hours AI Agent**: Covers phone lines 24/7, handling after-hours calls and dispatching engineers.
- **Field Engineer AI Assistant**: Automates end-of-day paperwork and admin for field engineers.
- **Customer Insights Platform**: AI-powered analytics to understand customers better and improve service.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$16.6M** (as of Series A in 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Blackbird Ventures (led Series A), Y Combinator (Summer 2023 batch), Pi Labs
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Rapid adoption across the UK and beyond since founding in 2023
  - Handling thousands of calls daily with fully autonomous AI Agents
  - Expanding internationally in 2026 (Belgium and Singapore presence)
  - Customer Amax (London fire & security) reports 30% of technical calls handled with no human intervention
  - Team size of 22 employees

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founders have nearly a decade of experience in field services (Pip Brown ran operations for 1,000+ engineers at OVO Energy; Panos Stravopodis built the operating system for those engineers; Adrian Johnston optimized call centers at BCG).
- **Fully autonomous, not just chatbots**: AI agents behave like effective front-office staff — deeply integrated with trades CRMs, always available, and trained on the realities of trade businesses.
- **Vertical-specific AI**: Built specifically for trades and field services, not generic AI — leading to higher booking rates, faster response times, and lower operational overhead.
- **Y Combinator backing**: Part of the prestigious Summer 2023 batch.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding engineering, operations, and go-to-market teams** (actively hiring)
- **Deepening integrations** with leading field-service Job Management Systems
- **Launching new AI agent capabilities** across voice, email, and messaging
- **International expansion** in 2026 (already has presence in Belgium and Singapore)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: A fast-moving, mission-driven startup backed by Y Combinator, building AI that runs real-world businesses. The team is small (22 people) and highly collaborative.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but headquarters is in London with team members in Belgium and Singapore, suggesting flexible/remote-friendly operations.
- **Notable Perks**: 
  - Founding team experience from OVO Energy, Bulb, Funding Circle, Bynder, and BCG
  - Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI in a massive, real-world industry
  - Open roles include Founding Software Engineer (£150K - £250K GBP), Founding Account Executive, Founding Solutions Engineer, and Founding Customer Success
- **Engineering Culture**: Led by Panos Stravopodis, a CTO with 15+ years of experience leading engineering teams (VP of Engineering at Bulb/Zoa with 150+ person team). They are building the first fully autonomous AI Customer Service Reps for trades.

## Sources
1. [elyos.ai](https://elyos.ai/)
2. [elyos.ai - Blog](https://elyos.ai/blog/elyos-ai-raises-a-13m-series-a-to-build-ai-agents-trades)
3. [Y Combinator - Elyos AI](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/elyos-ai)
4. [LinkedIn - Elyos AI](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/elyosai)
5. [Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elyos)

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