CEO Office - Associate

Augustus•New York City, NY

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Associate sits inside the CEO office and works directly with the founders and senior leadership team on the most important topics at Augustus: strategy, new opportunities, and getting high-impact projects from idea to execution. This role involves owning independent analyses, driving strategic projects end to end, and coordinating across the organization to make things happen. The scope shifts with the company's priorities, ranging from market entry analysis to developing business cases for new products. The Associate will gain deep insight into how the company operates today, positioning them to potentially own a P&L or product line as the company scales.

Requirements

At least two years of work experience in consulting, banking, or growth stage companies
Bachelor’s or master’s degree from a top-tier university with excellent grades
In New York or ready to relocate
Do the work yourself before you delegate it
Comfortable in the details as well as in the room where the decision gets made
Able to walk into a conversation with senior leadership, hold your own, and leave with a clear next step
Comfortable going from a blank page to a board-ready analysis without hand-holding
Move fast, communicate clearly, and follow through without being chased

Nice To Haves

You can't leave something broken.
You don't stop because it got hard or because no one is watching.
You're harder on yourself than anyone else would be.
You don't need external accountability to care about quality.
You don't wait for a playbook and you don't need one.
You walk into genuinely new territory and figure it out.
You move before anyone asked you to.
You don't solve problems by adding people or effort. You build systems that make the problem smaller.
Your first instinct is to automate, not to handle it manually.
Prefer breadth across many areas over depth in one area.
Comfortable presenting your work and defending your reasoning directly to senior leadership.
Want to work more than 9-5.

Responsibilities

Own independent analyses
Drive strategic projects end to end
Coordinate across the organisation to make things happen
Conduct market entry analysis
Pull together the business case for a new product
Get deep into how the company works today - strategy, operations, product
Translate complexity into simple, actionable conclusions
Go from a blank page to a board-ready analysis without hand-holding
Move fast, communicate clearly, and follow through without being chased
Gain broad exposure early: strategy, product, operations, and everything in between