Founder's Associate - Strategy & Operations (w/m/d)

aGYM; Essen; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

aGYM is seeking a Founder’s Associate – Strategy & Operations to work directly with our founders, Jacob and Mo, turning ambitious ideas into finished projects and scalable processes.

This role blends strategy with hands-on execution, helping drive decisions to completion and building the operating system for a fast-growing, founder-led company. You’ll own initiatives from concept to delivery and shape how we scale.

Qualifikationen

• Proven track record of turning ideas into action.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems and drive clarity.
• Willingness to roll up sleeves and execute.
• Experience in startups, consulting, venture capital, or fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication with founders and cross-functional teams.

Aufgaben

• Take loosely defined problems and drive them from idea to implementation.
• Create clarity around priorities, ownership and deadlines.
• Turn topics into concrete work packages and coordinate them across teams.
• Identify operational bottlenecks and build scalable processes.
• Automating and abstracting by default to avoid repetitive work.
• Research markets, competitors, locations and strategic opportunities to support key decisions.
• Prepare investor materials, presentations and decision documents.
• Work closely with the founders on company strategy, product thinking and operational scaling.

Kenntnisse

Getting things done

Analytical thinking

Ownership

Startup experience

Entrepreneurial mindset

Jobbeschreibung

ABOUT aGYM

People deserve more from the promise they make to themselves. More follow-through. More belonging. More of the person they actually came here to become.

The fitness industry isn't built to give them that. It makes its money when members fail, when they sign up in January full of resolve and never come back. aGYM is built the other way around: no contracts, no sign-up fees, cancel any time. We only win when people keep going. That single inversion changes everything we build.

Because once keeping people going is the whole game, you have to understand why people actually quit, and the answer was never willpower. It's a 200,000-year-old brain wired to save energy, colliding with a busy life. That's why we've built a "phygital" product where physical and digital are inseparable.

Since opening our first gym in Berlin, thousands of members have already joined us. It's thousands today, and soon to be millions.

We're a young, founder-led company. From the outside we might look like a gym with a nicer app. That's the surface. What we're really building is much bigger than fitness.

We're looking for people who turn ideas into things that actually ship, who are suspicious of plans that never become action, and who can't stop asking how things could run better.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Execution is where aGYM's ideas become reality. We only win if our members keep going, which means the company has to keep going, too. That's where you come in.

As our Founder's Associate – Strategy & Operations, you'll work directly with our founders, Jacob and Mo, helping turn ambitious ideas into finished projects, scalable processes and better ways of operating.

This isn't an assistant role. You won't be forwarding tasks or taking notes. And it's not pure strategy either. It's both! You'll take loosely defined problems, bring structure where there isn't any, and drive things until they're done.

You'll close the distance between a decision and a done thing, and then build the systems that keep that distance closed.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Take loosely defined problems and drive them from idea to implementation.
• Keep projects moving by creating clarity around priorities, ownership and deadlines.
• Turn open topics into concrete work packages and coordinate them across teams until they're delivered.
• Identify operational bottlenecks and build simple, scalable processes that make the company run better.
• Automating and abstracting by default. Before you do something twice by hand, you work out how it never has to be done by hand again, then you go build that.
• Research markets, competitors, locations and strategic opportunities to support key decisions.
• Prepare investor materials, presentations, business cases and decision documents.
• Work closely with the founders on company strategy, product thinking and operational scaling.

WHAT MAKES YOU STAND OUT

• A track record of getting things done, not just planning them.
• Strong analytical thinking and the ability to create structure in ambiguous situations.
• High ownership. You see problems, take responsibility and drive them through to completion.
• Initial experience in startups, consulting, venture capital, operations, company building, project management or a similar fast-paced environment.
• A pragmatic mindset. You're happy to roll up your sleeves when the situation requires it.
• Comfort with ambiguity, changing priorities and building while the company grows.
• Confidence to challenge ideas, work directly with founders and earn trust through execution.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and genuine excitement about building companies.

WHAT WE’LL OFFER YOU

• A seat next to the founders. You'll work directly with Jacob and Mo on the company's highest-priority topics.
• Real ownership from day one. You'll lead projects that have a visible impact on how aGYM grows and operates.
• Broad exposure across product, operations, finance, strategy, expansion and fundraising.
• The opportunity to help build the operating system of a fast-growing company, not just execute within one.
• A role where you'll learn exceptionally fast because you'll work on the company's most important challenges.
• A role that grows with you. Where this role goes depends less on a predefined career path and more on where your strengths take you, from Chief of Staff to leading an entire function, or something we haven't named yet.
• Our culture thrives on in-person collaboration, quick decisions, and shared energy in the office. At the same time, we trust you to choose the best place to work when flexibility is needed.

If you don't tick every box but can't stand watching great ideas die in meetings, and instinctively look for better ways to make things happen, we'd love to hear from you.

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