Founder's Associate (Business Ops)
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10 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Are you excited by the opportunity to become a part of a badass team leading the AI-first data revolution
Do you thrive on solving hard problems (individually and collectively) yet humble and hungry to learn and grow within a team on your path to greatness
Do you desire to become a part of a close-knit pack led by SV startup veterans who can accelerate your growth 10X (compared to the corporate trajectory/culture)
If youve answered with 3 resounding yes then we want to meet you!
Tasks
Starting points (challenges where you can help right now):
- Learn via doing writing and contributing to our internal content knowledge base to internalize why/what we are working on. Extending this to our website and marketing/social content.
- Learn to drive growth in our current marketing and sales process - tracking progress coordinating executing tasks.
- Learn to help us with recruiting (from sourcing to closing top talent)
- Own and improve some internal operations (scheduling processes documentation)
- Learn and support people operations and basic HR workflows
- Manage projects and timelines across different functional areas
- Potentially grow into a type of chief-of-staff role a strategic right-hand to the CEO - sounding board thought partner execution engine
Requirements
- 1-5 years of professional experience ideally in a startup or high-growth environment
- Hands-on experience in at least one of: recruiting operations project management marketing/sales or business support
- A digital native - comfortable using AI tools automations Notion and modern workflows
- Highly organized proactive and execution-focused
- Based in Berlin available for in-office/hybrid working model
- Curious adaptable low-ego and eager to learn by doing
Nice to Have
- Experience working directly with founders or early-stage teams
- Exposure to tech/startup growth hiring or business operations
- An experimental mindset - test learn iterate
Benefits
- Real Equity & Fair Pay: We believe in true partnership. You will get a competitive salary and meaningful equity so your personal upside is tied directly to the companys success.
- Ownership Not Just Tasks: You wont be lost in a big machine here. You will take full ownership of your projects and help define the future of our Web3 stack.
- Direct Access to Leadership: You are part of the core conversation. You will work side by side with the CEO and founders every day to solve hard problems and set the strategy.
- Inventing the Future: We are building the infrastructure for autonomous AI agents that doesnt exist yet. This is the place for you if you want to do original work instead of maintaining legacy systems.
- Builders Decide: We hate red tape as much as you do. We stay lean and let the people building the product make the decisions that drive the roadmap.
- Remote with Connection: We are remote first but value real face time. We meet monthly in SF and Europe to build momentum together because we know results matter more than counting hours.
Our Hiring Process
We move fast stay transparent and focus on real collaboration. Heres what the process looks like:
- Intro Call A quick chat to align on expectations interests and team fit.
- Technical Deep Dive A focused conversation with our COS to explore your technical thinking and past work.
- CEO Interview A strategic discussion around vision mindset and long-term alignment.
- Reference Collection Well speak with a few people youve worked closely with.
- Paid Trial (5 Days) A short real-world engagement so we can see how we work together happening in parallel with offer and terms discussion.
Please note:
- As a startup you can expect a fast-paced environment where extreme ownership is required.
- If you are seeking a traditional corporate 9-to-5 role this may not be the right fit.
Its not 10000 hours its 10000 iterations; Work like a lion - Naval Ravikant
Key Skills
- Sales Experience
- B2B Sales
- Time Management
- Marketing
- Analysis Skills
- Dental Office Experience
- Sales Pipeline
- Project Management
- CRM Software
- negotiation
- Management Consulting
- Phone Etiquette
About Company
CEF is an inference platform for sovereign AI agents. We unify orchestration, data, and infrastructure into a single platform optimized for real-time compute — running across cloud, hybrid, and edge environments with per-tenant encrypted data vaults and full lineage.
