The $1 trillion consulting industry is powered by some of the world’s brightest minds, yet they remain trapped in manual, inefficient workflows - spreadsheet orchestration, slide-deck assembly, and fragmented data synthesis. We are moving the industry from "human-plus-tools" to autonomous agency.
The Summer Associate Intern role is the founders' force multiplier. You'll work directly alongside our two co-founders and the Chief of Staff across every dimension of building the company: fundraising, hiring, partnerships, go-to-market, investor relations, operations, and whatever else shows up tomorrow. There is no fixed job description because the job changes every week. What stays constant: you're in the room for every critical decision, and you co-own the execution that follows.
Why this mattersEvery engagement Riplo touches makes the system smarter. The context, the judgment, the work product - all of it compounds into a knowledge layer no individual consultant or competing tool can replicate. The firms that move first on this category don't just work faster; they build a structural advantage. The next twelve months are when the category gets defined, and your summer falls inside that window. Joining now means working on the problems that determine whether Riplo becomes the default. Not future hypotheticals - the actual decisions made this summer.
Riplo was founded by ex-McK / BCG / DeepMind / Hg founding team, and emerged from stealth in March 2026 with $3.1M in pre-seed funding led by Cherry Ventures, joined by Blue Lion Capital, partners from McKinsey and BCG, the founders of QuantumBlack, and angels from OpenAI, Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Hg Capital.
What you'll doYour scope will evolve week to week, but the initial areas:
Fundraising and investor relations. End-to-end process support: deck iterations, data room, investor pipeline, due diligence coordination.
Hiring and talent operations. Source, screen, and close candidates across engineering, product, and commercial roles.
Strategic research. Market sizing, competitive landscapes, partnership opportunities, pricing models. Synthesise complexity into recommendations the founders can act on.
Partnerships and BD. Identify and qualify integration, channel, and technology partners. Support early deal structuring.
GTM scaffolding. ICP definition, target account lists, sales collateral, and the operational scaffolding for Riplo's first commercial motions.
Operations and AI-first company building. Systems, legal, finance, vendor management, and the hundred other things that have no owner yet. AI-first is the default.
0–4 years in a high-intensity environment: top-tier consulting, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or an early-stage startup. Exceptional undergraduates welcome.
Outstanding analytical and problem-solving instincts. You can build a financial model, structure a market analysis, and write a compelling narrative with equal comfort.
Sharp written and verbal communication. Your investor updates, candidate emails, and partnership briefs don't need editing.
Extreme ownership. You see gaps, you fill them, you don't wait to be told.
High comfort with ambiguity and context-switching.
Fluency with modern AI tools. You use them everywhere to accelerate your work, not as a novelty.
Fluent English.
Competitive summer stipend, with the path to convert into a full-time Founder Associate role (including meaningful equity) for the right candidate.
A front-row seat to the AI revolution with your hands on the wheel.
Direct daily access to founders who've built and backed category-defining companies.
More context, responsibility, and direct impact than people with far more senior titles at larger companies.
London is the primary base. Remote is possible only for exceptional talent.
