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# Founders Associate at Marloo

- **Company:** Marloo
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/marloo/825d7a30-3941-4a5d-a463-1034bcd6bba8

## Job description

## About Marloo

Marloo is building the AI partner for financial advisers. Advisers focus on clients while Marloo handles the rest. They guide people through the most important decisions of their financial lives and the software built for them has never been worthy of that. We intend to build the company that changes it and to become the system every advice firm in the world runs on. In under a year we have onboarded more than 1,000 paying firms across eight countries with almost zero churn. Revenue is growing 37% month on month on average. In May we raised a $10m seed led by Blackbird Ventures. Blackbird was the first and largest investor in Canva. We are at an inflection point. Join now and you will help shape the future of advice.

## The role

Founders Associates work directly with Marloo's founders on the most important work in the business. You will be part of a small team operating out of the office of the founders, embedded at the highest level of the company, with visibility into every major decision we make. You take ownership of what matters most, whatever function it sits in. That means driving the initiatives that decide the quarter, picking up the gaps nobody owns yet, and carrying the work that would otherwise sit on a founder. You will watch a company scale across eight markets in real time and own pieces of it yourself within weeks.

## What you will do

- Work directly with the founders on the most important commercial and customer initiatives in the business
- Get close enough to a problem to have a view, then build the business case for what we should do about it, and sell it to key stakeholders
- Turn a decision into a plan with names and dates against it, and keep engineering, product and GTM moving until it is live
- Represent Marloo with the senior leadership of our biggest firms, and be the person they call when a founder is not in the room
- You think quantitatively. You can size a market, model a decision and know when the number you are looking at is wrong
- Carry what you learn in the field back into the roadmap, so the next hundred firms get a better product than the last
- Find the work nobody owns, and own it before anyone asks
- Pitch in, because everyone at Marloo talks to customers

That's the role, so who are you? We are looking for exceptional people who have consistently delivered in demanding environments and want to do the most significant work of their career. Track record matters, but what we are really after is a learning rate that never levels off and an appetite to be uncomfortable.

- You have two to four years at a top tier consulting, investment banking, private equity or high growth tech firm, operating at the sharp end alongside a STEM or similarly quantitative degree
- You are a power user of AI tools, with Claude, Codex or Cursor built into how you work. You get bored solving the same problem twice and automate the repeatable parts rather than absorbing them
- You take clear ownership, moving without perfect information and correcting course quickly
- You write with precision, can hold a room of senior people, and earn an engineering team's trust the same afternoon, translating complex material for any audience
- You build alignment across functions and earn trust internally
- You are curious about financial advice, and how firms are structured, regulated and paid. You do not need to know it already, but the curiosity is not optional
- You are in the office five days, in London and up for travel

## About Marloo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Marloo is an AI partner for financial advisers that handles paperwork, compliance, and client context so advisers can focus on their clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-seed/Seed stage; total funding $16.9M, latest $10M seed round in April 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Auckland, New Zealand (with offices in New York, London, and Sydney)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Hardy Michel, Shakeel Lala, Ben Robertson

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered software for financial advice (wealth management, financial planning, insurance, mortgages)
- **Target customers**: Financial advisers and support staff at firms of all sizes – from independent advisers to large multi-advisor firms (B2B)
- **Mission**: “To give every adviser the partner they deserve, remove the friction that holds them back, and unlock a level of advice that elevates the entire profession.”

## Products & Services
- **[Marloo AI Partner](https://www.marloo.com/us)**: An AI platform that goes beyond meeting note-taking. It transcribes and analyses client interactions, generates advice documents (e.g., Investment Policy Statements, financial reviews), manages tasks, fills forms, drafts emails, and builds a complete client relationship picture over time. Integrates with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Outlook/Google Calendar. Available as a SaaS product.
- **[Marloo Teams](https://www.marloo.com/us)**: Practice management overlay allowing firms to set permissions, manage billing, oversee compliance across every adviser, and move from sample-based compliance to full coverage.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $16.9M (pre-seed $2.7M Oct 2025, seed $4.2M Sep 2025, additional $10M seed Apr 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Blackbird Ventures (first and largest investor in Canva) is the lead backer; other investors from the pre-seed round include angel investors (12 participants in pre-seed, 4 in initial seed)
- **Growth Signals**: Onboarded 650+ firms in under a year across seven countries with “almost zero churn”; headcount grew 833% YoY to 20 employees; operates in 5+ countries (UK, Australia, US, New Zealand, Sweden); continues to hire rapidly (8+ active roles as of mid-2026)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain depth**: One third of the team are former financial advisers – the product is built “with the profession, not just for it,” ensuring real-world relevance and trust.
- **Compliance-first architecture**: SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant; designed to handle regulated document generation across multiple jurisdictions and support firm-wide oversight.
- **Full-stack AI infrastructure**: Moves beyond simple note-taking to become the central operating system for advice – handling documents, tasks, forms, and client context across all channels (meetings, phone, email, voice notes).
- **Zero churn at fast scale**: High retention indicates strong product-market fit and switching costs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand beyond notetaker era**: Position Marloo as the “infrastructure the profession has always needed,” enabling full compliance coverage and document automation.
- **International growth**: Already in seven countries, with stated ambition to continue scaling across jurisdictions (document generation built for 10x growth).
- **Product-led sales**: Lean team (no product managers, no backlog) – engineers talk directly to customers; GTM hires also come from the adviser community, enabling a peer-to-peer sales model.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High agency, talent dense, speed and energy, “play to win”, love for customers, embrace of ambiguity. Bureaucracy stripped out – no unnecessary meetings, just the work that matters.
- **Flexibility**: Flexible work policy that prioritises in-person time but allows for travel, deep work, and family needs. Offsites for the entire team.
- **Engineering ethos**: Full-stack product engineers own what they build end to end; no product managers or backlogs. Tooling includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor – whatever gives leverage. Hard problems include regulated document generation across seven jurisdictions.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary and equity package (sliding scale to optimise for cash or equity). Perks are evolving quickly; team input into new benefits.
- **Hiring process**: Transparent and fast – intro call, hiring manager interview, case study or paid work trial, then founder interview. All applications reviewed personally.

## Sources
1. [Marloo Careers Page](https://www.marloo.com/careers)
2. [Marloo LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gomarloo)
3. [Marloo US Website](https://www.marloo.com/us)
4. [Marloo About Us](https://www.marloo.com/us/about)

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