Founder's Associate

Founder's Associate We seek exceptional talent to join Safety Bolt as we develop our patented technology for monitoring infrastructure. We do so with a recent 2.6MEUR raise to deliver on our 13MEUR LOI and €b market. We usually respond within two weeks Safety Bolt We're Safety Bolt and given our recent 2.6MEUR fundraise and 13M LOI, we're seeking highly driven, top 1% talent to join our team and scale our monitoring solution to a €b Infrastructure market. If you're simply looking for a job, this is not for you. We seek highly motivated people who proactively and obsessively strive to solve novel problem all the way to product launch and beyond, fundamentally changing the way we build, maintain and monitor physical structures. With an ex. McKinsey leadership, we have developed and patented industry leading technology over the last 7 years and recently reached a technical breakthrough, enabling, a oversubscribed seed round with top tier investors (to be announced), selected as Swedens top 33 startups, chosen out of 3400 startups to the NATO DIANA program and received an Letter Of Intent to purchase 47 000 sensors. Vision : Become the leading structural integrity data provider globally Target : Volume production & distribution of retrofitted sensor, providing 20y of structural integrity data Culture : Truth seeing, high agency, pragmatic, entrepreneurial and hypotesis driven. Seeking: Exceptional; Drive, Intelligence and Integrity. Lead rather than follow. ___ The Role You will be given ownership in the company as you work directly with me and the COO, starting with whatever most needs solving that week to offload me across a broad set of tasks. As you learn about the company, the industries and the clients, you proactively take the lead, shaping your own path as well as the company’s. This role is about growing into a leader who takes increased ownership to help deliver our first €13M LOI. If successful, this may in itself 6X our valuation, while we target a >50X increase over the next 4 years, within a far larger underlying market. This is deliberately a stepping-stone role, and the expectation is that you outgrow it as you automate tasks away, as a strong and proven user of AI, and help scale the company. The person I am looking for here is the same kind as the COO, the main difference is seniority. This is not a “comfortable title”, this is likely the steepest learning curve you’ll find. I set high ambitions and have strong views but can be convinced by facts and rational arguments. I look forward to you, over time, starting to challenge my pace and ambitions to push all of us to improve. This role requires intrinsic motivation and drive, maturity in handling your ego and emotions, and honesty in recognizing mistakes. I do not pretend to be perfect or expect this from you, but it’s critical that we all seek truth and communicate honestly and transparently, to develop as a team. What you will do • Take on a broad range of operational, financial and administrative tasks, learning the company bottom up while progressively taking on more responsibility and leadership • Work with me and the COO to build the company AI-first. Let’s strive towards automating as much as possible, so that the leverage compounds for you and for the company • Prepare the analysis behind pricing, market sizing, and go-to-market decisions. Build and own the financial model, the board pack, and the investor update • Run parts of the commercial pipeline end to end: account research, outreach, follow-up, and CRM discipline • Support the preparation of the next funding round • Take on the work you see is needed without being asked, and grow your role in the direction where you create the most value Must have • 2+ years at a top-tier strategy consultancy, investment bank, private equity firm, or a comparable analytical function • Experience at a startup in a leading role where you drove outcomes rather than observed them • Strong conceptual and analytical ability. You have built a model that a real decision was made on • Self-motivation and high energy: you set your own agenda and act without supervision • Strong practical use of AI to automate your own work, with something concrete you can show Nice to have • Founding experience of your own, however small the outcome • Enough SQL, Python, or scripting to automate a process end to end • Interest in heavy industry, hardware, or energy • Experience with fundraising processes or investor reporting What you get Options from the company’s option pool, and a competitive salary on top. For the right person, this is a real opportunity to earn a significant amount, way above the norm. As I will ask full ownership of you, I will give full transparency even before we sign, to discuss traction, cap table, pipeline, etc. As well as the steepest learning curve I can offer. Education MSc in Business, Economics, Engineering, or equivalent, with strong academic results. Education is less important than a documented track record of analytical work at a high standard. Experience level 6+ years combining top-tier analytical work with startup exposure. I am looking for someone early in their career but already demonstrably ahead of their peers, and who will grow into a senior position as the company scales. /Jonatan Carlsson, Founder and CEO Avdelning Operations Locations Stockholm Remote status Hybrid About Safety Bolt Safety Bolt develops wireless retrofit sensors that monitor bolted joints in critical infrastructure. Using magnetostrictive sensing, each sensor converts mechanical stress in a standard steel bolt into a measurable signal, giving asset owners continuous data on clamping force without modifying the joint or replacing any hardware. Measurements are transmitted wirelessly to a cloud platform, where trend analysis and alerts identify developing risk long before a scheduled inspection would. The company focuses on wind energy, bridges and civil infrastructure, rail, tunnels and mining, and heavy process industry. The technology is patented in the US, Europe and Asia and has been independently validated by several large industrial partners. Safety Bolt was selected as one of the top 33 tech companies in Sweden 2025, and for the NATO DIANA program 2025/26. Safety Bolt AB was founded in 2023 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.