Founders Associate to CEO
DoinstructWorkforce Training company
Berlin, GermanySenior
HV Capital
Creandum
High-Tech Gründerfonds
D11Z
Born2Grow
Bastian Karweg
Operations & Strategy
About the role
TL;DR
Work directly with founders to optimize workflows and automations.
- •You'll sit next to doinstruct's founders, 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: a 3-5x return in hours saved, revenue generated, or headcount avoided.
- •If it doesn't clear that bar, we don't build it.
- •Key Responsibilities Work directly with Charlotte and Mona on cross-functional initiatives across GTM, Product, and Ops.
- •Find the highest-leverage workflows in the company, redesign them around Claude agents, MCPs, and Skills, ship them, and measure the lift.
- •Build the automations yourself, in Claude Code, GitHub, n8n or Zapier, and directly inside HubSpot and Planhat.
- •Own launches end-to-end: brief, plan, execute, retro.
- •Requirements 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.
- •Top 5% of your peers, provable through founding experience, a leadership track record, grades, or an unusual builder résumé.
- •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.
- •You measure your own impact in hours saved and revenue generated, not in slides produced or meetings held.
- •You'd rather write a one-page memo than book a meeting to explain it.
- •Real empathy for blue-collar and frontline work.
- •Time in food, manufacturing, construction, or logistics is a strong plus, not a requirement.
- •Fluent in German and English.
- •Berlin-based or ready to relocate within 4-6 weeks.
Required skills
Anthropic APIHubSpotEngineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipStrategic PlanningOrganizational DesignCoachingMentoringChange ManagementCross-functional LeadershipExecutive PresenceVision SettingProduct Management
Nice-to-have skills
Presentation SkillsMentoringCoaching
Domain expertise
ai
Benefits & perks
Direct impact, Full autonomy, AI tooling budget, Great salary, Belonio card, Wellpass or Urban Sports Club, Language-learning budget
Tech stack
Anthropic APIHubSpot