Founders Associate

Sydney, Hybrid

Haast just closed a $12M Series A backed by Peak XV Partners, DST Global, and Airtree. If the best part of your consulting career has been solving the hardest problems in the room, but you're tired of handing off the deck and watching from a distance, this is where you step in.

We aren't experimenting with AI. We're shipping one of the first enterprise-grade agentic platforms for legal and compliance teams, and it's already in production with global enterprises.

In two years: compliance review times cut by 80%. Productivity up 4x. 4.5x revenue growth.

Design has Canva. Projects have Atlassian. Compliance has Haast.

We're targeting a $50B global market and are in the early stages of US expansion, with strong ANZ enterprise traction already behind us.

We're a small, fast-moving team and the founders are still deeply in the work. As we scale, we need someone who can sit alongside leadership, take the ambiguous problems off their plate, and drive them to a resolution.

This isn't a chief-of-staff coordination role. It's a strategic operating role for someone who can diagnose what's broken, design the fix, and own execution end-to-end. You'll move across every function: Sales, Customer Success, Product, Finance, and GTM. Some problems will be simple fix. Some will reshape how we operate forever.

Strategy & Planning

• Work directly with the founders on OKR setting, business planning, and GTM strategy as we scale into the US

• Drive board and investor-level reporting; synthesise performance data into clear strategic recommendations

Diagnosis & Execution

• Jump into high-priority operational problems across Sales, CS, Product, and Finance on sprint cycles of two to four weeks

• Identify root causes, not just symptoms; bring a solution with a point of view, not a list of options

Operating Infrastructure

• Build the playbooks and processes that let us scale without accumulating operational debt

• Own the metrics that matter; pricing performance, sales funnel efficiency, retention patterns, and surface insights the business can act on

Product & Engineering Interface

• When you identify an operational problem with a technology fix, scope it clearly and work with engineering to ship it

Who We're Looking For

You've come through a top-tier strategy consulting firm (MBB or equivalent) and have two to four years of experience. You might be a senior associate or engagement manager who's been looking for the right moment to step into an operator role.

Or perhaps you've moved into a high-growth startup after consulting and want to go deeper than your current scope allows.

Either way, the pattern is the same: you're a rigorous thinker who doesn't stop at the analysis. You want to own the outcome.

Why Join Haast

• Real ownership from week one. You're not writing the summary of what happened in the meeting. You're in the meeting, shaping the decision, and accountable for what comes next

• Meaningful equity. We're building in a $50B market and we share the upside with the people doing the work

• Learning velocity. You'll work alongside a founding team with MBB and top-tier law backgrounds who are unusually willing to teach

• Variety. Your scope will shift every few weeks. No two sprints are the same

• Sydney-based, genuinely flexible. We work from our Sydney office and support arrangements that let people do their best work

How to Apply

Send us your CV and a short note answering this question:

Tell us about a time you diagnosed a genuinely ambiguous, high-stakes problem. What did you decide to do about it, and what was the outcome?

No closing date. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

At Haast, bold ideas come from diverse perspectives. We're committed to building a team that reflects the world we work in. Even if you don't tick every box, we'd love to hear from you.