Founders Associate to CEO (f/m/x)
<div class="show-more-less-html__markup show-more-less-html__markup--clamp-after-5 relative overflow-hidden"> You'll sit <strong>next to doinstruct's founders</strong>, and you decide which workflows move to Claude agents, what ships to production, and what gets killed. Every project you take on has to clear one bar: <strong>a 3-5x return in hours saved, revenue generated, or headcount avoided</strong>. If it doesn't clear that bar, we don't build it.<br/><br/>This is full-time, in-office in Prenzlauer Berg at least 4 days a week, starting as soon as you can move.<br/><br/><strong>🛠️ What You'll Do<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>Work directly with Charlotte and Mona on cross-functional initiatives across GTM, Product, and Ops. </li><li>Find the highest-leverage workflows in the company, redesign them around Claude agents, MCPs, and Skills, ship them, and measure the lift. </li><li>Build the automations yourself, in Claude Code, GitHub, n8n or Zapier, and directly inside HubSpot and Planhat. </li><li>Own launches end-to-end: brief, plan, execute, retro. <br/><br/></li></ul><strong>🤖 How We Work<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>Pick your Claude tool by what the problem needs: Cowork for anything multi-step and messy, Code when something has to run, Sonnet or Opus for the genuinely hard stuff, Haiku for volume. </li><li>Anything you'd do twice gets checked into GitHub as a skill or an agent, so it's still there after you move on. </li><li>"Claude said so" doesn't fly here. "Claude said so, here's how I checked" does. </li><li>You don't need a CS degree. You do need to be comfortable opening a terminal and figuring it out. <br/><br/></li></ul><strong>📈 Where this role can grow<br/><br/></strong>Three tracks so far: become the go-to person for one function (sales, marketing, partnerships, or CX), go deep on AI as a senior IC shaping how the whole company builds with it, or grow into Chief of Staff and take on broader ownership across the business, a role that doesn't exist yet. Which one depends on what you're pulled toward and what the company needs when we get there.<br/><br/><strong>🧭 Who You Are<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>1-2 years of operator experience, including internships, at a top startup, consultancy, VC/PE, or investment bank. Extra credit if you've been a Founder's Associate, Chief of Staff, GTM engineer, or founded something yourself. </li><li>Top 5% of your peers, provable through founding experience, a leadership track record, grades, or an unusual builder résumé. </li><li>AI-native, not AI-curious. You already run Claude, Cursor, and n8n day to day, and you've shipped at least one automation that's still running in production. </li><li>You measure your own impact in hours saved and revenue generated, not in slides produced or meetings held. </li><li>You'd rather write a one-page memo than book a meeting to explain it. </li><li>Real empathy for blue-collar and frontline work. Time in food, manufacturing, construction, or logistics is a strong plus, not a requirement. </li><li>Fluent in German and English. Berlin-based or ready to relocate within 4-6 weeks. <br/><br/></li></ul><strong>🎁 What we offer<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>Direct impact: your work reaches thousands of frontline workers and shows up in company metrics inside your first quarter. </li><li>Full autonomy from day one on projects that would normally sit with someone five years more senior. </li><li>The AI tooling budget you'd expect from a company that means it: Claude Max, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, n8n or Zapier, and no cap on token spend. </li><li>Great salary, a Belonio card for meals and mobility, Wellpass or Urban Sports Club, a language-learning budget. </li><li>Backed by over €25M in Seed & Series A funding from HV Capital, Creandum, HTGF, and D11Z, so the runway matches the ambition. <br/><br/></li></ul>____<br/><br/>At doinstruct, you can make full use of your skills and play an active role in the further development of our start-up. And yes, we attach great importance to a positive working atmosphere, maximum transparency, communication at eye level, and support every step of your personal and professional development.<br/><br/><strong>Even if you don't tick all of the boxes, but you are motivated and want to work with us, you are very welcome to apply.<br/><br/></strong><em>We embrace diversity and hire people based on their ability to perform a job. People of any race, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, political opinion, or marital status are welcome at doinstruct.<br/><br/></em><em>_<br/><br/></em>For questions or remarks please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Manager, Leonard, at leonard.mielke@doinstruct.com.<br/><br/> </div>