Operations Associate - Founding Team Member
San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 7mo agoStill listed 2 days ago
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Pear VC is hiring an Operations Associate - Founding Team Member. The role supports the founding team at Known by driving GTM strategy, building partnerships, coordinating marketing, and managing financial operations while working directly with the founders to shape the AI‑powered dating product launch. The associate will bring organization, communication, and a scrappy, resourceful mindset to accelerate growth and operational excellence.
Key focus areas include Support GTM strategy by coordinating launch plans, timelines, and cross‑functional execution, Drive partnerships by sourcing, contacting, and managing relationships with venues, creators, and brand partners, and Coordinate marketing efforts by organizing campaigns, events, and content operations with the growth team.
Successful candidates bring 1+ Years Consulting Experience, 1+ Years Investment Banking Experience, and 1+ Years High‑Performance Environment Experience. Important skills include GTM Strategy, Partnership Management, Marketing Coordination, Recruiting Support, Financial Operations, and Operational Excellence.
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Full job description
About the Role We’re looking for an Operations Associate to join the founding team at Known and help execute the most exciting consumer launch of 2025. You’ll work closely with our Head of Operations - driving GTM strategy, accelerating partnerships, enabling recruiting, and keeping our internal engine running smoothly.
This is a rare chance to get in early at a well-funded startup ($10M seed from one of the top consumer VCs in SF), build an entirely new category in AI-powered dating, and take on real ownership from day one. You’ll move fast, learn fast, and help shape how Known enters the world.
What You’ll Do
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Support GTM Strategy - coordinate launch plans, timelines, and cross-functional execution
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Drive Partnerships - source, contact, and manage relationships with venues, creators, and brand partners
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Coordinate Marketing Efforts - organize campaigns, events, and content operations with the growth team
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Recruiting Support - help build pipelines, coordinate candidate experience, and keep hiring on track
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Financial Ops - expense management, payment tracking, and helping maintain a healthy financial pulse
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Work Directly With Founders - be a key part of daily decisions across product, growth, and operations
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Operational Excellence - build processes that make us faster, smarter, and always improving
Who You Are
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~ 1 year of experience in consulting, investment banking, or a high-performance environment
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A highly organized operator - you make chaos feel like clarity
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Strong communicator (written and verbal)
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Comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into action
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Scrappy, resourceful, and energized by doing whatever it takes to make us win
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Excited about startups, tech, and redefining how people meet
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Based in San Francisco - or ready to be here
Why Known
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Massive opportunity - the future of dating needs a new model
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Real ownership - equity in a company built to scale
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High-trust, high-autonomy environment
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Access & impact - work alongside founders daily and see your work go live fast
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Backed by the best - $10M seed from top consumer VC in SF
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Build a category-defining product that helps people connect offline, in the real world
How this job compares
Set against the 1,199 open Operations Associate jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$70–86K/yr49 salary ranges
- California median$18–24/hr56 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 73 open Operations Associate jobs in California and 1,199 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Operations Associate postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (128 postings).
- Education
- 16 of the 1,199 open Operations Associate jobs (1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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