Founders Associate
Pubblicato il 27-09-2026 - Tropico Security in Bardi
Founders' AssociateNon aspetti a candidarsi dopo aver letto questa descrizione: per questa possibilità è previsto un elevato volume di candidature.We're looking for our first Founders' Associate, the person who keeps the whole machine running while the rest of us build minefields for attackers.As 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.Mr.
Coco, our Chief Deception Officer, mostly cares about traps.
This role is about everything else that keeps the traps shipping.The Role:First dedicated ops hire, working side by side with the foundersStart at the operational core: R&D; tax-credit and timesheet compliance, data room, CRM hygiene, finance ops (invoicing, AP/AR, expenses), vendor and board logisticsOwn people ops as we scale the team: onboarding, HR tooling, external counselGrow into a Chief of Staff mandate: cross-functional projects (think new-market expansion), board and investor reporting, OKRs, fundraise prepA role with a ceiling defined by what you can deliver, not by your years of experienceYou are:12+ months in strategy consulting (MBB or strong boutiques) and/or an early-stage startup in ops/BizOpsRelentless on execution: no task too small,
no detail missed, no dropped ballA builder, not a follower.
You can take an ambiguous mess and turn it into a system, without waiting to be told howItalian mother tongue (legal and tax context), fluent English (investors and international)Genuinely ambitious.
You want to grow into leadership, and you're happy to start from the plumbing to get thereWhat we offer:Competitive salary + a real piece of the company.
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; )A front-row seat to company-building, on a credible path to Chief of StaffOwnership from day one, in a category we're inventing as we goAbout Tropico:Tropico 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 PhishingTM 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.
xysqume xysqumeTropico is backed by the European Space Agency, Plug And Play, Vesper and 10+ exceptional Angel Investors!
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