Aide-de-Camp to the Founder

Zealot (zealotlabs.com) builds AI systems that find zero-days, emulate target devices, and develop working exploits for U.S. defense and intelligence customers. We are backed by tier-1 U.S. venture firms and industry leaders, with a team that includes alumni of Anthropic, xAI, NSA, USCYBERCOM and Anduril.

This is not a traditional assistant role. As the founder’s Aide-de-Camp, you will operate as their trusted right hand—travelling internationally, helping the company’s highest-priority work move forward, and receiving a front-row apprenticeship in how an ambitious startup is built.

What you’ll do

- Travel globally with the founder and ensure every trip, meeting and transition runs smoothly.

- Prepare briefs, research, notes, follow-ups and plans for high-stakes meetings, investor conversations, customers and events.

- Keep priorities, information and people moving at founder speed.

- Lead fast-moving special projects across operations, recruiting, partnerships, product and company building.

- Anticipate problems, exercise excellent judgment with sensitive information and solve things without waiting to be asked.

Who you are

- An exceptional early-career operator who learns unusually quickly and wants an intense, practical education in startups and leadership.

- Highly organised, resourceful, calm under pressure and energised by changing priorities.

- An outstanding written and spoken communicator in English.

- Comfortable working independently, handling details impeccably and thinking strategically.

- Able to travel internationally frequently and often on short notice.

- Excited by a high-ownership, high-trust role that is anything but predictable.

What you’ll get

- A front-row seat to building an extraordinary company.

- Direct daily exposure to founder-level decisions, operations, strategy and execution.

- International travel and a genuinely unconventional working life.

- Rapid growth across business, operations, leadership and strategy.

We care far more about raw ability, ownership, judgment and drive than pedigree. If you want the rarest kind of startup apprenticeship, we would love to hear from you.