Founder Associate

Sartiq is an AI-powered content creation platform for fashion brands. It creates great product images and videos at a fraction of the cost and time of a physical photoshoot.
Our enterprise clients publish more than 10000 of our photos every month making us one of the largest photography studios in Europe and we dont own a single camera.
We work with tier-1 European fashion and retail brands were VC-backed and were growing fast. We went from 3 people in June 2025 to 15 now.

If you want to start your own company one day this is the closest seat there is to learning how. Youd work next to the Founder & CEO every day in the real decisions and not just the tasks: revenue investors the hard client calls the experiments wed run. Youll learn enterprise sales hiring investor relations and fundraising by actually doing them not watching from the side.

Im looking for a right hand with founder DNA: someone who wants in on the decisions is eager to learn by really doing the work and who grows this role as fast as they can carry it.

Tasks

What youll do:

1. Revenue automation: build the agents that support my CRO job. My biggest internal hat is Chief Revenue Officer and Im obsessed with automating it. I wrote a sketchy internal AI toolchain (quotes invoicing follow-ups reconciliation pipeline tracking). Youll operate it extend it and build new agents so the automatable part of revenue management runs without either of us doing it by hand. You do not need a CS degree but you need to have a strong automation mentality and a mental model that involves agents on a daily basis.
2. Decision memos: turn my half-formed ideas into rigorous docs. Ill hand you a raw question (How can we adapt our billing to better support the creation of editorial fashion campaigns) and a rough sense of how it might work. Your job: start by gathering how agencies do it today structure an internal proposal and run the thought experiment to the end. Map every second-order consequence (on margins on client behavior on our positioning on ops) pressure-test it come with me to clients to stress-test the idea and wrap it up in a structured memo so we take a better decision together.
3. My diary my radar my assistant. You always know whats happening across our deals and conversations with investors partners and clients. Its not so sexy but you make sure I get to every meeting that matters and that I reply to every message that counts. Over time you become the person who is proactive enough being less buried than me to flag the opportunity were about to miss the contract clause I skimmed or the better deal hiding in a thread.
4. Special projects and sourcing. When we need something (quotes for a new shooting studio in Milan vendor research CVs screened for an early hire) youre the person who picks up the phone calls people weve never spoken to gets the answers assembles the inputs and brings me a decision-ready package. Youre comfortable cold-calling a stranger to get the number we need.
5. (Nice to have) AI product experiments. I have a constant stream of product ideas I want tested fast. Example: can we gather a sufficient view of a brand product and visual brand identity history through a web search e.g. Claude scraping the Internet Archive. Ill give you the technical angle. You build the small prototype run the experiment score the output honestly and bring back whats real.

Your first 90 days:

1. Take full ownership of invoicing and payment-chasing and ship at least one new automation that removes a recurring manual step from my week.
2. Deliver one real decision memo on a live strategic question (e.g. the creative-work billing change) second-order effects mapped clients consulted.
3. Be in enough of my calls that you can draft a client follow-up Id send without editing.

Requirements

Requirements to apply:

• A sharp generalist 1-3 years in something demanding (consulting analyst early-stage operator startup or you built your own thing even during school).
• Genuinely AI-native: you already use Claude/ChatGPT daily to do real work and you can build a small prototype or automation without an engineer holding your hand.
• Comfortable on the phone with strangers and in the room with senior client contacts.
• Fluent in English and Italian (required for our clients).
• Ready to be in Lugano in person daily.

What this is not:

• Not an executive assistant. Calendar hygiene is the basis not the job.
• Not an engineer. You build with AI tools; you dont need a CS degree.
• Not a strategist who wont touch the tools. You think and you ship.
• Not remote. Proximity is the whole design.

Benefits

How we work: on-site in Lugano together most of every day. I want to spend real time with you: thats the point. You do the legwork and bring structure I make the call and you get direct access to me and to our clients.

• Competitive Swiss compensation: a fixed salary plus equity in the company (which is the real upside).
• Lugano on-site.
• Direct line to the founding team.

I truly want to get to know you be human. Any AI-slop will be rejected instantly.

Send:

1. A cover letter (max 1 page) with what youve actually done that your CV doesnt show and why youre the right person for the job. If it looks like it was written by ChatGPT Ill delete it immediately.
2. Include in t a link to a demo (or code or a video) of one thing you built or automated with AI out of passion or personal need. No paid jobs not something someone else asked for.