About this role
About Panda Drum US wellness e-commerce brand. 300,000+ customers, ~$50M revenue this year, 3x growth three years running. Steel tongue drums, instruments anyone can play, sold direct to consumers in the US. ~40 people remote across Europe, the US and Asia, plus 100+ content creators. Profitable, bootstrapped, founder-led. The founder is Polish and based in Warsaw, which is why this role is Poland-first but not Poland-only. The honest version of this job The founder makes fast decisions across supply chain, marketing, hiring and finance. Two things fall through the cracks. First, follow-through: a contractor payment that slips, a subscription that runs out of credits and blocks a designer, an onboarding email promised "today" three days in a row, a signature nobody chased. Second, decisions that never needed him: too many people have direct access to the founder, and most of what reaches him could be handled by someone who knows how he thinks. Follow-through is the floor of this job. You own the calendar, inbox triage, payments calendar, tools and subscriptions, travel, meeting prep and follow-ups, and one open-loops list that is always current and always true. The job itself is judgment: you become the filter for the senior team, you make decisions inside a defined authority zone, you sit in on hiring, and in your first 30 days you build AI automation around the founder's inbox and calendar so the routine runs without you. Single-principal role. You work for one person. You will see compensation, supplier terms and hiring decisions before anyone else in the company. Discretion is the core of the job, not a feature of it. Who you'd work with Marek, the founder. Zero to multiple eight figures in revenue in four years, no investors, profitable. You will never have to guess where you stand. Praise is rare, correction is constant, none of it is personal. He communicates in short Slack messages, at any hour, from any time zone. Messages are flagged urgent or non-urgent. Urgent means immediate acknowledgment and action, weekends included. Non-urgent is yours to schedule inside your own system. Mid-November through mid-December is peak season: full standby, weekends contractual, everything reaching you is urgent by default. Outside that, the intensity is real but it's yours to organize. This is not a job you do from a beach, and it's not a job that expects you awake at 3 AM for nothing. What you get back: zero politics, zero committees, a principal who backs his people publicly, pays above market and on time every time, and hands real trust fast to people who close loops. If you'd rather be corrected in one sentence than managed by hints, this is the best seat in the company. If you come from corporate, read this twice Corporate-only backgrounds do not make it here. Not sometimes. Not with effort. We've tested it. If your entire career is consulting, banking, a shared-service center or a big company, you have been trained that there is one right answer and a policy that contains it. Here there are fifty right answers and your job is to pick the most useful one in the next ten minutes with no policy and no one to ask. Being tired of corporate bureaucracy is not a qualification. Wanting to escape it is not the same as being able to operate without it. The people who thrive here have already left corporate once and survived at least a year somewhere fast, messy and founder-led.