Founder’s Associate

NetBird; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Wellpass health and fitness programs

Team lunches and events

Dinner on us when you're working late

Hybrid work setup

Zusammenfassung

NetBird in Berlin is seeking a Founder's Associate to work directly with the founders and Chief of Staff on high-impact topics. This is a hands-on, high-trust generalist role spanning strategy to day-to-day execution, with ownership opportunities as you prove yourself.

You'll support strategic projects across growth, product, operations, and fundraising, help grow the team, research markets, and align Product, Growth, and Engineering on milestones; you’ll help design internal processes to scale

Qualifikationen

• Track record of excellence with real ownership.
• Highly structured, organized, able to drive multiple topics in parallel.
• Enjoy working with data, building models, and turning insights into action.
• Comfortable taking vague problems, defining them, and driving to a result.

Aufgaben

• Support the founders on strategic projects across growth, product, operations, and fundraising, and drive your own workstreams within them.
• Help grow the team, from coordinating our recruiting process to helping win exceptional people for NetBird
• Research markets, competitors, and customer needs to identify new opportunities and risks
• Support cross-team initiatives and help keep Product, Growth, and Engineering aligned on key company milestones
• Help design and improve the internal processes that keep a scaling company running, and jump on whatever matters most right now, from testing new GTM ideas to supporting the founders day to day

Kenntnisse

Ownership mindset

Analytical

Hands-on

Structured

Data-driven

Ausbildung

Top-tier university degree

Jobbeschreibung

Who we are

A team from Germany with the vision to make advanced network security accessible for everyone

We are a software company developing an open source zero-trust network security platform that is both easy to use and affordable for teams of all sizes and budgets. Our mission is grounded in a simple yet powerful belief: secure private networking is a fundamental right of every modern company.

Since our launch on GitHub in 2021, we have gained trust among thousands of companies seeking secure and seamless solutions for connecting remote employees and infrastructure. By replacing traditional centralized VPNs, NetBird has become a trusted choice for modern network security, connecting today hundreds of thousands of users and machines worldwide. Our open source, community-driven approach has been a key driver of our success. We listen to our users, and their input helps us make network security better for everyone.

Want to see what we're working on? Check out our GitHub repo at https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird or https://netbird.io/knowledge-hub

What you will do

As Founder's Associate at NetBird, you'll work directly with our founders and Chief of Staff on the topics that matter most to the company. This is a hands-on, high-trust generalist role: you'll experience every part of how a fast-growing open source startup is built, from strategy to day-to-day execution, and grow into real ownership as you prove yourself.

Specifically, you will:

• Support the founders on strategic projects across growth, product, operations, and fundraising, and drive your own workstreams within them

• Help grow the team, from coordinating our recruiting process to helping win exceptional people for NetBird

• Research markets, competitors, and customer needs to identify new opportunities and risks

• Support cross-team initiatives and help keep Product, Growth, and Engineering aligned on key company milestones

• Help design and improve the internal processes that keep a scaling company running, and jump on whatever matters most right now, from testing new GTM ideas to supporting the founders day to day
  

What we are looking for

We're looking for an exceptional generalist: highly motivated, analytical, and hands-on, with the ambition to help build and scale a tech startup from the inside.

What you bring

• A track record of excellence and real ownership, for example through top academic results from a top tier university or internships in high-caliber startups, venture capital, investment banking, or strategy consulting

• You're highly structured, organized, and able to drive multiple topics in parallel without losing your eye for detail

• You enjoy working with data, building models, and turning insights into action, but also have a hands-on mentality

• You're comfortable taking a vague problem, defining it, and driving it to a result
  

What makes you a great fit

These are the values we work by as a team, and what they mean for this role:

• Own the outcome: Small team, real scope. You take problems end to end and ship something that works today instead of polishing a plan for weeks.

• Default to candor: Direct, kind, and specific, whether you're challenging a colleague's assumption or receiving feedback yourself. The best argument wins.

• Stay close to the user: You don't have to be an engineer, but you're genuinely curious about our product and the open source community behind it.
  

What's in for you

We know that happy and supported team members build the best products. That's why we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity: everyone at NetBird owns a piece of what we're building

• Close collaboration with our co-founders: work with them day to day and learn how a startup is really built

• High impact: your projects directly shape NetBird's trajectory

• Hybrid setup: a centrally located Berlin office with flexibility for remote days

• The essentials done well: team lunches, team events, health and fitness programs (e.g., Wellpass), and dinner on us when you're working late