Work Directly With the CEO. Learn What It Takes to Build a Company.

Why This Role Exists

8x Social hit 1.2M ARR in 5 months. We're raising our round, scaling the team, and building systems that didn't exist before. The CEO is currently splitting time across fundraising, sales, hiring, and product - and needs someone who can carry context across all of it.

This isn't a support role where you take notes and schedule meetings. You'll be in the room for every important conversation - VC pitches, client calls, hiring decisions, strategy debates. Your job is to absorb context, think critically, and make things happen.

The best way to learn how to build a company is to sit next to someone who is building one. That's what this role gives you.

What You'll Actually Do

• Fundraising support. Review the deck, collect VC feedback, help refine positioning. You'll have full context on how we think about the raise - not just the slides.
• Sales and pipeline. Follow up with high-priority leads, prep for client calls, track deal progress. You'll learn how B2B sales actually works at a startup.
• Hiring. Source candidates, run intro calls, coordinate assignments. You'll help build the team from the ground up.
• Operations. Whatever needs doing. Campaign coordination, internal tooling, process design. The scope changes weekly because the company changes weekly.
• Thought partner. Review documents, challenge assumptions, provide a second perspective. The CEO wants someone who pushes back, not someone who nods.

Who This Is For

You're at a top business school - HEC, LBS, Bocconi, ESADE, or similar - and you're already questioning whether the standard path (consulting, IB, big tech) is actually what you want. You've probably had conversations with friends about starting something. Maybe you already tried.

• Future founder mentality. You're not here for the resume line. You're here because working inside a fast-growing startup is the best education you can get right now.
• High context, fast learner. You can sit in a VC pitch in the morning, prep a sales deck at lunch, and screen a candidate in the afternoon - without dropping any of it.
• Chip on your shoulder. You want to prove something. The salary and the logo aren't what drive you - the opportunity to build something meaningful is.
• Comfortable with chaos. There is no job description that stays the same for two weeks. You thrive when things are ambiguous and move fast.
• Sharp communicator. You can write a clear email, give direct feedback, and pitch an idea without a 20-slide deck.

We'd rather hire someone with less experience who wants to learn than someone with more experience who wants to be told what to do.

What You'll Get

• Full context. You'll know what the company is doing, why, and what's at stake. No information silos.
• Direct access to the CEO. Daily collaboration. You'll see every decision, every tradeoff, every mistake - and learn from all of it.
• Paid internship with conversion. $1,200-$2,000/month base for a 25-hour weekly commitment, plus performance-based bonus. 2-month trial, then full-time with stock options if it works.
• Speed of learning. You'll learn more in 2 months here than in a year at a big company. That's not marketing - it's what happens when you're exposed to everything at once.
• Network. VCs, founders, operators, engineers. You'll meet people who are building things, not just talking about it.

About 8x Social

8x Social is the infrastructure layer for performance-driven creator marketing. We connect brands with 50,000++ creators across 10+ countries to run UGC campaigns that actually convert. Founded by Jaka Bavdek (CEO, London Business School) and Theo Bui (CTO, Imperial College), we're backed by Entrepreneur First and based in San Francisco.

We're the fastest-growing company in EF history. We use AI across everything - sales automation, campaign operations, hiring evaluation. If you want to see what building a company actually looks like from the inside, this is it.