Founders Associate - People

Founders Associate - People Can you help us fix the world's most broken supply chain? The fashion industry produces over 100 billion garments a year. 60% end up in landfill, not because people don't want these clothes, but because the supply chain for getting secondhand fashion from donation to resale is completely offline, manual, and broken. Fleek is fixing this. Our mission is to make secondhand the first choice. We're building the infrastructure powering the global secondhand clothing trade, through a B2B marketplace and the AI systems digitising the supply chain behind it. Through Fleek, vintage stores, online resellers, and retail buyers source graded secondhand inventory directly from wholesalers and rag houses across multiple countries. Our key enabler is FleekSort, an AI model fine-tuned on secondhand fashion, that can grade, price, and categorise items with just a photo, turning what has historically been an opaque and manual trade into a structured, searchable, and tradable global inventory layer. Since 2022, we've saved 9 million items from landfill and tripled in size year-on-year. We've raised ~$50M from a16z, Y Combinator, Burda Principal Investments, HV Capital, and others, and have recently closed our Series B. Our advisors and private investors include operators behind Depop, Shopify, and Postmates. Today, we serve thousands of resellers and retailers across the UK, Europe, and the US. With the secondhand fashion market projected to reach $350B by 2027, Fleek is building the AI-native operational and financial backbone for secondhand commerce globally. We're looking for people who want to build something that matters, and move fast doing it. Sound good? Keep reading. About the Role We're hiring someone to own everything that makes our London office work, from people operations to physical space to team culture. You'll be the person who makes sure the fast growing ~20-person London team (part of a 100-person global company across the UK, India, and Pakistan) has everything they need to do their best work. This is a hands-on role with real ownership. You won't be executing someone else's playbook. You'll build the systems, set the standards, and run the show. What You'll Own People Ops - Day-to-day HR operations on Deel: onboarding new hires, managing contracts, processing payroll changes, and keeping employee records up to date - Automating our HR Operations so that it flows without a person ever needing to touch the system. This is a true build-from-scratch opportunity to build a people system that scales. - Making sure every new joiner has a smooth first day and first week. - Automating and scaling our onboarding practices so every new Fleeker can hit the ground running. This will mean setting up IT relationships and automating the flow from contract signed, to end of first month. Business Operations - You will be asked to put your hands to an enormous variety of high impact problems which you will be figuring out on the job. You will be supported by our Founders, Head of Talent and our AI Leader to identify and solve operational focused problems. Office Operations - Planning and running team events, offsites, and All Hands meetings - Owning vendor relationships, service contracts and facility/landlord negotiations - Keeping the office presentable, functional, and a great place to work Who We're Looking For - 1–5 years experience in people operations, with hands-on experience running payroll in Deel or Remote. - London-based. You will be a cultural cornerstone of our office and will be expected to be in most day. This is actively where you do your best work. - Proactive problem-solver. You see what needs doing and do it. You don't wait to be told. - Thrives in a fast-paced environment. Startups are messy. Priorities shift. If you need rigid structure, this probably isn't for you. - AI and Automation minded. You understand that the future of our work is through automation and AI. ... (truncated, view full listing at source)