Founder Sprint Coordinator, Aalto Founder School

Aalto University; Espoo; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Aalto University is seeking a Founder Sprint Coordinator to run and scale the Founder Sprint program. The role involves daily execution, participant experience, logistics, communications, and maintaining an operational rhythm for a high-growth startup-style initiative.

You will partner with the Founder Sprint Specialist and own end-to-end program activities, from recruitment to coherent program delivery. This growth role offers real ownership from day one and strong potential to advance within

Qualifications

• Teamwork and open communication are a must.
• Role requires physical presence most workdays.
• Work and collaboration are in English; Finnish or Swedish a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the full recruitment funnel for each cohort: attracting applications, sourcing, scoring, interviews, selection, onboarding and building the system that runs it.
• Build the tools that scale the program: application pipelines, scoring systems, AI-assisted ops, internal automations.
• Run the weekly program rhythm: schedules, deadlines, deliverables, workshops, mentor sessions, feedback loops, and improve each cycle.
• Be the face of Founder School in the ecosystem: events, pop-ups, student orgs, partnerships, ambassador work.
• Connect participants to the people, capital, spaces, and next steps inside and outside Aalto.
• Maintain high standards: intensity, quality, ambition, and care across the cohort experience.
• Jump into other Founder School work when needed: Founder Talks, alumni, ecosystem projects, events.

Skills

High initiative

Strong execution

Excellent communication

Networking

Project coordination

Event planning

Ecosystem building

Job description

Aalto University Founder School operates as a startup within the university: moving fast, delivering results quickly, iterating, piloting, and pivoting. We enjoy working with people who are excited to make things happen on short notice.

Founder Sprint is our flagship program – a selective, blank-page founder program that bets entirely on the person. We are hiring someone to run it, build the system that lets it scale, and grow toward owning it. This is not a traditional role, you are not just organizing but engineering the system around the program.

This role is a great preparation for future work as a startup founder or in hectic and demanding leadership roles. This position suits someone with a strong interest in high-growth entrepreneurship, community-building, events, and communications in a fast-moving environment.

Job duties may change over time. Teamwork and open communication are a must. This job requires physical presence most workdays. Work and collaboration is done in English. There is a possibility to extend the continuation of this role or grow into leading the program.

The full-time fixed-term Founder Sprint Coordinator runs the daily execution, participant experience, logistics, communications, and operational rhythm of Founder Sprint.

The Coordinator makes sure the program runs smoothly, participants are supported, activities are well-prepared, communication is clear, and the overall cohort experience is strong together with the Founder Sprint Specialist.

This is a growth role. The aim is for the Coordinator to learn Founder Sprint deeply over time and develop toward taking over responsibility for the program in the future.

This role is for someone with high agency, strong execution skills, and ambition to grow. Success in this job can open doors to some of the most attractive entrepreneurial career paths in Finland and beyond.

The Founder Sprint Coordinator will partner with the Founder Sprint Specialist as two co-owners of the program:

• Own the full recruitment funnel for each cohort: attracting applications, sourcing, scoring, interviews, selection, onboarding and building the system that runs it.
• Build the tools that scale the program: application pipelines, scoring systems, AI-assisted ops, internal automations.
• Run the weekly program rhythm: schedules, deadlines, deliverables, workshops, mentor sessions, feedback loops, and make it sharper every cycle.
• Be the face of Founder School in the ecosystem: events, pop-ups, student orgs, partnerships, ambassador work.
• Connect participants to the people, capital, spaces, and next steps that matter, inside and outside Aalto.
• Hold the bar: intensity, quality, ambition, and care across the entire cohort experience.
• Jump into other Founder School work when it counts: Founder Talks, alumni, ecosystem projects, events.

What’s in it for you?

• You get direct access to one of the most ambitious startup hubs in the Nordics.
• You get direct access to exceptional students, founders, investors, mentors, alumni, and startup ecosystem actors.
• You will gain experience in top-tier program operations, founder development, coaching support, ecosystem building, and venture development.
• You get real ownership and responsibility from day one.
• You will develop skills that are highly relevant for future work as a founder, operator, venture builder, startup program lead, or ecosystem builder.
• You will be part of a small, ambitious team with high autonomy building something new. See our current team from here.

Who thrives here?

• You enjoy networking and thrive when surrounded by people.
• You run many parallel threads – people, deadlines, logistics – without dropping the bar.
• You're comfortable with execution and documentation as much as with strategy.
• You want to learn to build and run a world-class founder program.
• You are passionate about startups and want to help future founders grow.
• You exhibit high agency.
• Familiarity with Aalto’s entrepreneurial ecosystem (a plus, not a must).
• Previous experience in startups, student entrepreneurship, events, communities, or program coordination (is a plus).
• Speaking and writing fluent English (Finnish or Swedish is a plus).

Team culture

We encourage you to read more about our team culture.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the position, you can contact the hiring manager Kasper Suomalainen at [e-mail] or [phone]. You can also contact Founder Sprint Specialist Tai Tran at [e-mail] or [phone].

More about Aalto University:

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