Founders Associate
Pubblicato il 18-09-2026 - Tropico Security in Milano
pstrongFounders' Associate /strong /ppWe're looking for our first Founders' Associate, the person who keeps the whole machine running while the rest of us build minefields for attackers. /ppbrTutti i potenziali candidati sono incoraggiati a leggere l'intera descrizione del lavoro prima di candidarsi.br/ppAs TROPICO Security keeps on growing, the founders are drowning in the stuff that makes a company actually work: the ops, the numbers, the data rooms, the thousand things that never make the pitch deck but break everything if they slip. We need someone to own that, and then grow into far more. /ppMr. Coco, our Chief Deception Officer, mostly cares about traps. This role is about everything else that keeps the traps shipping. /ppbr/ppstrongThe Role: /strong /pulliFirst dedicated ops hire, working side by side with the founders /liliStart at the operational core: RD tax-credit and timesheet compliance, data room, CRM hygiene, finance ops (invoicing, AP/AR, expenses), vendor and board logistics /liliOwn people ops as we scale the team: onboarding, HR tooling, external counsel /liliGrow into a Chief of Staff mandate: cross-functional projects (think new-market expansion), board and investor reporting, OKRs, fundraise prep /liliA role with a ceiling defined by what you can deliver, not by your years of experience /li /ulpbr/ppstrongYou are: /strong /pulli12+ months in strategy consulting (MBB or strong boutiques) and/or an early-stage startup in ops/BizOps /liliRelentless on execution:
no task too small, no detail missed, no dropped ball /liliA builder, not a follower. You can take an ambiguous mess and turn it into a system, without waiting to be told how /liliItalian mother tongue (legal and tax context), fluent English (investors and international) /liliGenuinely ambitious. You want to grow into leadership, and you're happy to start from the plumbing to get there /li /ulpbr/ppstrongWhat we offer: /strong /pulliCompetitive salary + a real piece of the company.. ;) /liliA front-row seat to company-building, on a credible path to Chief of Staff /liliOwnership from day one, in a category we're inventing as we go /li /ulpbr/ppstrongAbout Tropico: /strong /ppTropico is a fast-growing cybersecurity startup revolutionizing the deception market. With Mythos reshaping the rules of the game, we are on a mission to build the most effective early warning system on the market using Next-Gen Deception. Our proprietary Reverse Phishing™ technology lets enterprises deploy robust identity protection with a single click: a frictionless approach already trusted by top-tier EU enterprises. And we're not stopping there. We're scaling this automation to two massive new surfaces: Network / Cloud deception across the enterprise stack, and AI agents as they go to work. xjncmbx /ppTropico is backed by the European Space Agency, Plug And Play, Vesper and 10+ exceptional Angel Investors! /ppbr/p