Founders Associate

Festanstellung, Vollzeit · Berlin

Your mission
As the Founder’s Associate, you will work closely with the CEO, supporting him in day-to-day operations, sales initiatives, and financial management. This role is ideal for a highly motivated and entrepreneurial individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys problem-solving, and is eager to take on diverse responsibilities. You will act as a strategic right-hand to the CEO, driving efficiency, streamlining processes, and contributing to the company’s growth.

Key responsibilities
  • CEO Support & OperationsSupport the CEO in executing high-priority tasks, conducting research for strategic decision-making, and optimizing operations for efficiency and effectiveness
  • Sales & Marketing: Drive sales by identifying opportunities, managing client relationships, preparing pitches, and analyzing key metrics to enhance revenue growth.
  • Blended Finance & Fundraising: Assist the CEO in structuring blended finance strategies by identifying funding opportunities, managing investor relationships, preparing financial models, and analyzing key metrics to optimize capital allocation and impact
  • Communication & Project Management: Serve as the central coordination point for internal teams, external partners, and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, strategic alignment, and timely execution of key projects.
Your profile
Skills and experience
  • Degree in business administration or related field from a top business university
  • +1-3 years of work experience in consulting, finance or start-ups 
  • Strong skills in Excel, word and powerpoint (Google Workspace) 
  • Strong project management and organizational skills
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
  • Experience with blended finance and/or B2B Sales is a strong plus
Workstyle and culture
  • Fast learning and quick to grasp complex topics
  • A team player with a hands-on mentality
  • Authentic and reflective self
  • Self-Organizer and structures workstyle to keep focus and get things done
  • Good listener and effective communicator in cross-sectional team
  • Curious and open-minded
Other
  • Valid Work Permit for Germany, or able to obtain a permit
  • Fluent in English, preferable also German
  • Location: Exiting industrial Co-Working Space in Berlin Marzahn where we have our own industrial halls to build
Benefits
Perks
  • Employee stock options
  • Flexible working hours
  • Hybrid working
  • Regular team events
  • Subsidized BVG ticket
  • Laptop and your individual work set-up
  • Development Budget
About us
We are an early startup with a big vision - remove 500 million tons of global CO2 emissions from the air by 2035 through Direct Air Capture, roughly the same weight as all humans on earth combined!

To meet our climate targets the reduction of CO2 emissions is not enough, the world actively has to remove billions of tons of CO2 from our atmosphere. To achieve that we at Ucaneo develop an innovative electrochemical Direct Air Capture technology mimicking the human lung to remove CO2 from ambient air.

We are a science and mission-driven team, fast-moving with a break-or-make attitude. Our office and industrial hall is located at Schwarze-Pumpe-Weg 16, 12681 Berlin including a large outdoor area to build one of the largest industrial DAC plants in Germany.

Our commitment to you:
  • Impact: You will work on the biggest problem of our time, climate change, with the potential to impact the lives of billions of people
  • Day to day: Full responsibility to design your own workstream and control your working hours with a very high degree of freedom, flat hierarchy and teamwork
  • Professional growth: Join a disruptive high-growth tech startup from day 1 and grow / lead a high-performing team
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