Founders Associate

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. </strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results. But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process. We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward. This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation.</p><h2>About the Role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Adaptyv is growing fast. We are significantly expanding our lab this year, onboarding more and more customers every week, and building the systems needed to keep the company running smoothly as we scale.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are looking for a <strong>Founders Associate</strong> to own and build the operational backbone of the company as we scale. This is a high-ownership generalist role: you'll take entire problems and run them end-to-end, from messy first draft to a process that runs cleanly without you.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll move between finance, customer operations, hiring, supplier relationships, and lab logistics — owning whatever is most important that week, not just supporting it. Most of what you'll work on is still manual, ad hoc, or held together by hand; your job is to turn it into systems and automations that scale, then move on to the next hardest thing.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role requires exceptional agency and an entrepreneurial mindset. You should be comfortable being handed an ambiguous goal with no playbook and coming back with it solved.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><h2>What You'll Do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own complete operational workstreams end-to-end — you're accountable for outcomes, not tasks</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Use AI tools to rebuild workflows that are still too manual, messy, or slow, and turn them into systems that run without you</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own customer onboarding and help keep our growing customer base happy as we scale</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Run finance and administrative operations, working closely with our accountants and service providers</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Manage supplier and service-provider relationships, including negotiation and follow-through</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Drive lab expansion logistics for our new lab in Lausanne</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"&