Founders' Associate

TechTree; Toulouse; Hybride; EUR 32 000 - 48 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

TechTree, a deep-tech startup in Toulouse, is seeking a versatile operations professional who will grow with the founders and help move the company forward.

You’ll own a broad set of tasks from coordinating travel and logistics to supporting budgets, payroll, and public funding applications. This role suits someone eager to learn fast, take initiative, and own outcomes in a small team.

Qualifications

• Fluent French is mandatory.
• English at or near fluent level, written and spoken.
• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, or management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsabilités

• Act as the founders' right hand, removing friction and driving important company problems.
• Coordinate travel, logistics, equipment, and preparations for visits and deployments.
• Support financial operations, including budgets, payments, salaries, expenses, and cash tracking.
• Build and maintain clear financial and operational reporting for founders and investors.
• Help prepare grant applications and European/NATO funding opportunities.
• Manage purchasing, suppliers, deliveries, and other operational dependencies.
• Develop simple internal processes and automate repetitive tasks.
• Support customer and partner operations across teams.
• Take ownership of unexpected operational problems and drive resolution.

Connaissances

Fluent French

Fluent English

High energy

Organized

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Formation

Bachelor's degree

Description du poste

GPS fails. In contested airspace it's jammed, spoofed, and gone. When it disappears, most drones are blind. Ours are not. We build the module that lets a drone navigate by what it sees, no satellites required. It's already flying with leading aerospace manufacturers and defense agencies in Europe, in places where nothing else works. We're a small team out of Toulouse doing hard things fast. If you want to help build a deep-tech company from the inside, take real responsibility early, and see the impact of your work immediately, keep reading.

About the role

This is not a traditional operations job.

You'll work directly with the founders and take ownership of the systems, decisions, and details that keep the company moving. Your job is simple: remove friction, solve problems, and make the company operate faster.

The scope is intentionally broad. One week you might coordinate an international flight-test deployment, the next you might build the monthly financial picture, prepare a NATO or European funding application, solve a supplier issue, or help structure a major company decision.

Some work will be strategic. Some will be highly operational. You need to be equally comfortable preparing information for investors and making sure a payment, shipment, or hotel booking happens exactly when it should.

You'll be given real responsibility early. We expect you to notice what needs to be done, figure out how to do it, and own the result. You won't wait for perfect instructions, and you won't measure your contribution by how impressive the task sounds.

We're not hiring for years of experience. We're hiring for judgment, energy, reliability, and rate of learning.

Done well, this role can grow far beyond operations. It's an opportunity to learn how a deep-tech company is built from the inside and become one of the people the founders trust to take an ambiguous problem and drive it from idea to execution.

Key responsibilities

Act as the right hand of the founders, taking operational load off their plate and independently driving important company problems

Coordinate travel, logistics, equipment, and preparation for customer visits, flight tests, demonstrations, and international deployments

Support the company's financial operations, including budgets, payments, salaries, expenses, and cash tracking

Build and maintain clear financial and operational reporting for the founders and investors

Support applications for grants, European projects, NATO programs, and other public funding opportunities

Manage purchasing, suppliers, deliveries, and other operational dependencies across the company

Build simple, scalable internal processes as the company grows, and automate repetitive work where it makes sense

Support customer and partner operations when coordination is needed across commercial, technical, and administrative teams

Take ownership of unexpected operational problems and drive them to resolution

Fluent French - this is mandatory

English at or near fluent level, written and spoken

High energy, proactive, and genuinely willing to own both the interesting work and the repetitive work

Organized and reliable, with strong attention to detail

Comfortable juggling many different tasks, switching context quickly, and working with incomplete information

Comfortable with numbers and basic finance, and willing to learn the rest

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Able to work independently, take initiative, and follow problems through to completion

A bachelor's degree is enough - a background in business, economics, finance, engineering, or management is a plus

Preferred qualifications

Exposure to startups, fast-paced environments, consulting, operations, finance, or project-based work

Experience with grant applications, public funding, or European or defense programs

Familiarity with accounting, financial modelling, or spreadsheets

Experience coordinating suppliers, logistics, projects, or external stakeholders

A third language

What you might work on in your first year

Coordinate the operational side of an international flight-test campaign, from equipment and travel to customer requirements and on-site logistics

Build the financial dashboard the founders use to track cash, spending, budgets, and upcoming commitments

Take a European or NATO funding opportunity from initial research through to a complete submission

Build the operational process that takes an order from purchase order to hardware delivered and invoiced

Solve an unexpected supplier, logistics, or administrative problem that is blocking the team, then turn the solution into a process so it doesn't happen twice

Logistics

Full-time. On-site in Toulouse, France, close to the founders and the team. Junior individual contributor level. Because we serve defense customers, some work may be subject to export control or clearance requirements depending on the program.