Founders Office Associate

Founders Office Associate (Full-Time, New Grad)

We're building the largest physician-focused tax company in the country, growing faster than anyone in this space. This role sits inside the Founders Office, working directly with the COO on the problems that decide whether the firm wins: strategy, hiring, product, and the operating machinery underneath all of it.

Read the entire post before applying. There are application instructions somewhere in it, and we are not telling you where. If you skim, you will miss them, and we will know.

Before anything else, the hours, because this is the part most people get wrong about this job.

The hours. Read this twice.

This is a 70 to 80 hour a week job. Not a busy-season spike. Not "sometimes it gets heavy." That is the normal week, every week.

You are reachable 7 days a week. That is a standard for everyone we hire at Doc Wealth, and it is not negotiable for this seat in particular. The reason is simple: if you are not in it constantly, you will not know enough about what is happening to actually be useful. Someone who checks out on Friday evening comes back Monday two hundred decisions behind and spends the week catching up instead of contributing.

We are not going to pretend this is balanced work. It isn't. It is the trade you make in exchange for sitting next to the people running a company during the fastest stretch of its life, and getting handed responsibility years before you would get it anywhere else.

Be honest with yourself now rather than three months in. If reading the two paragraphs above made you flinch, close the tab. No hard feelings, and we mean that.

If it made you want the job more, keep reading.

What you'll do

This is not a role where you watch. You'll sit in the rooms where decisions get made, then own pieces of what comes out of them. One week that's building the model behind a pricing decision, the next it's running point on a search for a senior hire, the next it's turning a half-formed product idea into a spec someone can build. Real deadlines, real consequences, with someone experienced beside you and modern AI tooling at your back.

Strategy and analysis

• Build the analyses behind real decisions: pricing changes, new service lines, pod capacity, which states and specialties to push into next.
• Pull data out of our systems, clean it, and turn it into a one-pager the COO can decide from. Numbers first, narrative second.
• Research competitors, markets, and tax industry shifts, and tell us what actually matters instead of dumping links.
• Pressure-test plans before they ship. Find the assumption that breaks, and say so.

Recruiting

• Run searches end to end for roles across the firm: write the post, source candidates, screen against our rubrics, schedule, keep the pipeline moving, and make sure no candidate is left hanging.
• Sit in on interviews, take structured notes, and build the debrief materials that drive the hire or no-hire call.
• Keep the recruiting board clean and the funnel numbers honest.

Product and internal tooling

• Turn dictated voice notes and whiteboard sessions into written specs, task lists, and process docs that an engineer or ops person can execute against.
• Test what gets built. Find where it breaks, document it precisely, and chase the fix until it closes.
• Help design and roll out the AI and automation workflows the firm runs on, so the team's reps go to judgment instead of busywork.

Founders Office operations

• Prep leadership meetings: agenda, prior action items, the two or three numbers needed to run it.
• Capture action items out of leadership and pod meetings and chase them until they close, including with people more senior than you.
• Run special projects nobody owns yet: an offsite, a vendor evaluation, a fire that landed on the COO's desk this morning.
• Draft communications the COO sends under their own name. They should need edits, not rewrites.

Who this is for

The sharpest person in your graduating class, and we mean that literally. Learns fast, works hard without being told twice, and is energized rather than drained by a heavy load. Three things we care about most:

Thinking. You can take an ambiguous question, structure it, do the work, and come back with a recommendation and the reasoning behind it. Not a summary of the problem. An answer.

Communication. You write clean, professional messages and documents people can act on without a rewrite. You follow up without being asked. You don't go quiet when something is stuck.

Ownership and discretion. You'll see strategy before it's announced, compensation, and personnel matters. That information does not leave your hands. When something is yours, it gets done or you raise your hand early. Nothing dies silently in your queue.

Be honest with yourself about the unglamorous half of it. Founders Office means you do whatever the firm needs, and some of that is scheduling, data cleanup, and chasing the same person for the same document three times. It still has to be right, because everything downstream depends on it. If work below your ego drains you, this is the wrong seat.

This is not for anyone who needs hand-holding or wants a comfortable lane.

One boundary on scope: you prepare the analysis and the options. Decisions carrying real legal or financial exposure belong to the COO and the founders. You will never be left holding those alone.

Compensation and the path

$40,000 to $50,000, depending on what you bring.

We're going to be straight with you about that number. Measured against the hours, it is not a big salary, and we are not going to dress it up as one. What you are actually buying at this stage is the title, the room, and the reps. You will spend your first year doing work that most people don't touch until they're thirty, sitting beside the person running the company while they do it.

That is the deal at the start, and it is not the deal forever. This is a firm that is growing fast and promotes from the inside. Do well here and you climb, and the pay follows the climb. Earned, not given.

One more thing before you apply

Applying through this posting is only half of it. Doing that alone means we never see you.

After you apply, email sagar@docwealth.io with the subject line: Founders Office Associate. In the body, answer all four of the following. Short and direct beats long. Numbered answers, no cover letter.

Your overall undergraduate GPA.

Why you want to join Doc Wealth specifically. Not why you want a founders office job. Why this firm.

Describe the most demanding stretch of work you have ever put yourself through. What was it, how many hours a week did it actually take, how long did it last, and what did you give up to do it? Give us the real numbers and the real cost. If nothing in your life so far has looked like that, say so plainly instead of inventing something.

Confirm in one line that you have read the hours section at the top of this post and are saying yes to it: 70 to 80 hours a week, reachable 7 days.

Send it within 48 hours of applying. Our replies come at odd hours, and how quickly you come back to us is part of how we read you.

Requirements

• Graduating by summer 2026, or graduated within the last year. This is a full-time role.
• Minimum 3.5 overall undergraduate GPA. We will verify.
• Business, finance, accounting, economics, or a related degree. Exceptional candidates from other fields will be considered.
• Strong written communication. Be ready to show a writing sample or write something on the spot.
• Comfortable in spreadsheets, fast with new software, and already using AI tools in your own work.
• Discretion with confidential information, without needing to be reminded.
• Genuinely wants the pace described at the top of this post.

Fully remote.

We screen hard and very few applicants are selected. If you are the right person, that should make you want this more.