Founder’s Associate

The role

You will work directly with the founders and Chief of Staff on strategic projects across growth, product, operations, and fundraising. You will support team growth, research markets, and help design internal processes for a scaling open source startup.

What you will do

• Support the founders on strategic projects across growth, product, operations, and fundraising
• Drive own workstreams within strategic projects
• Help grow the team by coordinating the recruiting process
• Research markets, competitors, and customer needs
• Support cross-team initiatives to keep Product, Growth, and Engineering aligned
• Design and improve internal processes
• Test new GTM ideas
• Support the founders day to day

Required qualifications

• Track record of excellence and real ownership
• Top academic results from a top tier university or internships in high-caliber startups, venture capital, investment banking, or strategy consulting
• Highly structured and organized
• Able to drive multiple topics in parallel with attention to detail
• Enjoy working with data and building models
• Hands-on mentality
• Comfortable taking a vague problem, defining it, and driving it to a result

Nice to have

• Genuinely curious about the product and the open source community

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Close collaboration with co-founders
• High impact projects
• Hybrid setup with a centrally located Berlin office
• Team lunches
• Team events
• Health and fitness programs (e.g., Wellpass)
• Dinner when working late

About the company

NetBird is a software company developing an open source zero-trust network security platform. The team is from Germany and aims to make advanced network security accessible for everyone.