Founder’s Associate / Entrepreneur in Residence
Polara
<p><strong>About us</strong><br>We’re a team of serial entrepreneurs who have built and scaled companies before, and we’re starting again. Our next venture tackles a problem every founder knows: protecting your brand is slow, expensive and confusing. We combine smart technology with real trademark expertise to make it simple.</p><p>We’re at the very beginning, and that’s exactly why we’re looking for you: someone who wants to build a company from day one, side by side with founders who’ve done it before.</p><p></p><p><strong>What you’ll do</strong><br>As our right hand, you’ll work on whatever matters most right now. In the first months, that includes:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Setting up the company:</strong> incorporation, structure, banking, legal and administrative set-up across countries</p></li><li><p><strong>Go-to-market:</strong> shaping positioning and pricing, testing channels, and winning our first customers</p></li><li><p><strong>Hiring:</strong> finding, approaching and onboarding our first team members, including trademark professionals across Europe</p></li><li><p><strong>Partnerships:</strong> building relationships with partners, advisors and service providers</p></li><li><p><strong>Operations:</strong> turning chaos into processes, and processes into something that scales</p></li><li><p>Anything else that moves the company forward, from investor materials to customer calls</p></li></ul><p></p><p><strong>What you bring</strong></p><ul><li><p>2–5 years of experience in a startup, scale-up, VC, consulting or a similar fast-paced environment</p></li><li><p>A strong bias for action: you get things done without waiting for perfect information</p></li><li><p>Structured thinking and the ability to switch between strategy and execution in the same hour</p></li><li><p>Excellent communication skills, and you enjoy talking to customers, candidates and partners</p></li><li><p>Fluency in English.</p></li><li><p>The ambition to found or lead a company yourself one day</p></li></ul><p></p><p><strong>What we offer</strong></p><ul><li><p>Direct mentorship from serial founders: you’ll be in every important conversation</p></li><li><p>Real ownership from day one, with responsibility that grows as fast as you do</p></li><li><p>Competitive pay plus a meaningful equity package</p></li><li><p>A clear path to a leadership role as the company grows</p></li><li><p>Flexible working and a small team with short decision paths</p></li></ul><p></p><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>