Location: London, with daily overlap into US Central hours and regular travel to Texas
Type: Full time
Civic Marketplace is an AI native cooperative procurement platform for US local government. Public procurement is one of the largest, least modernised workflows in the public sector. Our agentic workflows help agencies discover, evaluate and engage suppliers faster, and open public sector opportunities to more businesses.
We are looking for a Founders Associate to work directly with the CEO: taking the company's most important cross functional problems, putting structure around them, and running them to completion with a team eight hours away.
This is a seat at the centre of a company building category defining infrastructure for how government buys. The market is large, under contested and moving fast toward AI. You will see every part of the business, work directly with the founders, investors and our government partners, and own outcomes rather than support someone else who does.
This is an owner's role, not a chief of staff in the scheduling sense. You will take two or three company priorities a quarter off the CEO's desk and run them end to end. Al is based in the UK and most of the team and our partners are in US Central, so you will open workstreams with Al in the UK morning and run them with the US team through their day.
You are three to five years post MBB, or an operator at a Series A to C company who has run a cross functional programme. You have owned something from brief to result without a handover, and you want more of that, not a stepping stone toward it.
Civic Marketplace is on a mission to unlock local agency procurement through innovation by building a marketplace that saves time and taxpayer dollars. Our platform provides government procurement offices with the ability to make purchases with ease, simplicity, and full legal compliance. We unlock public service delivery through cutting-edge technology, bringing transparency and efficiency. Access to a network of reliable, pre-approved vendors ensures compliance and stability for every deal, and our focus on SMWB & local economic development helps boost local growth by supporting diverse suppliers.
Procurement officers face outdated technology, lacking innovation and understaffed teams. These leaders are left spending too much time on compliance and box checking when they could be focusing on helping organizations make the best sourcing decisions..
Government procurement is hindered by outdated systems and inefficient processes, leading to delays in decision-making. With limited staff and resources, these departments struggle to keep up with the increasing demand for development and public services. As a result opportunities for innovation and improved service delivery are missed, and difficulties arise in maintaining compliance and transparency.
Vendors of all sizes face challenges in navigating the complex, slow and outdated procurement processes which in turn has a lasting impact on local economic development and sustainability. Vendors also struggle to demonstrate their value, as the focus is often on compliance rather than the quality and impact potential of their products and services.
We have co-designed an AI-enabled marketplace that matches proven, highly-rated vendors with new, local government agency contracts. Our platform aims to combine industry best practices, legal compliance, and technology to empower procurement officers. Time savings are achieved by working with pre-approved, compliant vendors.
