Founder Associate - Product, Content & Ops (PAUSED)

tocco
tocco

Product, Operations

Posted on Sep 14, 2026

🙋‍♀️ what’s the job?

Tocco is building the operating system for future materials — a platform where designers, buyers, and makers discover and use radically better materials.

We’ve launched. The users are real. The product is live. The mission is clear.

Now we’re looking for a Founder Associate who thrives in ambiguity, acts fast, and turns loose ideas into systems, content, and real product delivery — a sharp, structured generalist who thrives in early-stage chaos. You’ll help us turn ambiguity into action, systems, and structure — from supplier onboarding to internal automation.

This is a multi-stack role — not just helping, but owning. For someone who’s operated in both the physical and digital worlds: you’ve been around (actual or metaphorical) logistics, warehouses, or inventory workflows enough to speak the language, and you’re equally comfortable cleaning up Notion boards or automating repetitive tasks.

Think: detail-obsessed operator with calm energy and a low tolerance for inefficiency.

💥 what you’ll do

you’ll help Tocco run — smoothly, cleanly, and with structure that scales.

You’ll operate at the nerve centre of Tocco — building the connective tissue across product, operations, content, and culture.

🔧 Build internal structure from chaos

→ Timeline clarity, task ownership, project cadences — Notion becomes a machine

📚 Support content & editorial execution

→ Help structure reports, materials curation, supplier pages, visual briefs

🧠 Drive product thinking and micro launches

→ Work with product/design to move features from idea → shipped (Unbox, Library, Awards)

🎙️ Prepare materials for investors, users, and partners

→ Decks, briefings, case studies, speaker notes — clear, confident, and well-formatted

🛠 Maintain our operational brain

→ SOPs, feedback loops, internal dashboards — using Notion, Typeform, Airtable, and AI tools

📦 (Optional) Touch the physical world too

→ If curious: coordinate Unbox logistics, supplier shipping, inventory workflows

🧰 tools + skills you’ll use often

What you’ll use regularly — and what we hope you’re great at.
⭐️ Bonus points for:
  • Exposure to procurement, supplier onboarding, or compliance processes
  • Previous experience in a startup or fast-moving ops team
  • Familiarity with sustainable supply chains or materials
  • Owning detail-first, no-fuss, low-drama operator energy
  • ✅ You don’t need to know all of these — you just need the mindset to figure it out fast.

    🎯 if this sounds like you…

  • ✅ You love turning ambiguity into structure
  • ✅ You’ve shipped real projects (side project, team lead, internal sprint)
  • ✅ You’re obsessed with clarity, deadlines, and unblocking people
  • ✅ You write well — and can brief others even better
  • ✅ You’ve got taste: not just pretty decks, but good judgment
  • ✅ You’re a systems thinker who automates first and asks later
  • ✅ Preferably: You’re based in Europe
  • ⭐ Bonus Points For…

  • 🧵 You’ve worked with designers or product teams
  • 📦 You’ve touched supply chain, logistics, or physical ops
  • 🧠 You’ve built or maintained Notion-based PM systems
  • 🧘‍♀️ You carry calm, low-drama operator energy
  • 🔍 You’ve run interviews, user research, or built knowledge hubs
  • 💡 You bring both structure and taste to what you touch
  • 🚫 not the job for you if...

  • ❌ You want a fixed job description
  • ❌ You need layers of approval to move
  • ❌ You don’t enjoy writing, building systems, or context-switching
  • ❌ You prefer a clean roadmap over figuring things out
  • ❌ You shy away from supplier conversations or operational ambiguity
  • ❌ You think “ops” = admin — this is strategic, messy, and foundational
  • 🌱 what we offer

  • 🪑 One of our first 10 hires — shaping core product and team culture
  • 🌍 Remote-first flexibility (needless to say that comes with reliability & responsibility)
  • 🧠 Huge ownership + daily collaboration with founders
  • 🌱 Work that connects to the climate, design, and future materials movement
  • 💸 Starting compensation: based on experience + Equity (based on performance)
  • 🏸 the ball is in your court now!

    Send your portfolio (and a hello) at the form below. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible. We move fast. 🏎️

    👀 not exactly this role?

    These are the roles we know we need — but let’s be real, there’s always more going on than what fits in a bullet list. If you’re curious, sharp, and think you could bring something we’re missing, reach out anyway: redpill@tocco.earth

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