Startup Success Associate

XAnge; Paris; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal vouchers

Remote work

Wellpass access

Commuting allowance (Navigo)

Budget for training

Job summary

XAnge is seeking a proactive Startup Success team member to support portfolio companies as they scale. You will collaborate with founders and C-level executives to deliver practical operational insights, design acceleration programs, and foster a strong founder community across Europe.

Based in Paris with flexibility for remote work, you will help drive strategic initiatives, coordinate events, and work closely with the investment team to add tangible value for more than 80 startups.

Qualifications

• Former entrepreneur or strong startup background.
• Hands-on, multitasking ability in a dynamic environment.
• Autonomous, structured and team-oriented.
• Passionate about tech and digital startups and founder challenges.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English and French.

Responsibilities

• Respond to founders’ and C-level executives’ requests with high quality, rigor, and speed.
• Design and deploy new acceleration programs, content and tools to tackle key operational challenges.
• Facilitate founder and executive community activities: events, retreats, peer discussions, newsletters.

Skills

Fluent English

Fluent French

German is a plus

Job description

XAnge is a top-tier European venture capital firm managing approximately €700m in assets, with offices in Paris, Brussels and Berlin. We back ambitious Seed and Series A founders with the ambition to scale globally.

With a strong track record of investments including Greenly, Tomorro, 360Learning, Ledger, Lydia, Odoo and Welcome to the Jungle, XAnge is currently raising its fifth fund (XA5), with a successful closing at €250m.

What is our Startup Success team?

The mission of XAnge’s Startup Success team is to deliver a highly result-driven support service to our portfolio companies. We work hand in hand with founders and C-level executives on their most critical operational challenges as they scale.

Our support is delivered through:

• A strong Startup Community (introductions, peer-to-peer talks, founder dinners, etc.)

• Acceleration programs (workshops, tools, benchmarks, playbooks)

• Ecosystem leverage (talent community, negotiated partner perks, visibility with LPs, etc.)

Joining the Startup Success team means embracing a very specific philosophy.

What we are:

XAnge is a top-tier European venture capital firm managing approximately €700m in assets, with offices in Paris, Brussels and Berlin. We back ambitious Seed and Series A founders with the ambition to scale globally.

With a strong track record of investments including Greenly, Tomorro, 360Learning, Ledger, Lydia, Odoo and Welcome to the Jungle, XAnge is currently raising its fifth fund (XA5), with a successful closing at €250m.

What is our Startup Success team?

The mission of XAnge’s Startup Success team is to deliver a highly result-driven support service to our portfolio companies. We work hand in hand with founders and C-level executives on their most critical operational challenges as they scale.

Our support is delivered through:

• A strong Startup Community (introductions, peer-to-peer talks, founder dinners, etc.)

• Acceleration programs (workshops, tools, benchmarks, playbooks)

• Ecosystem leverage (talent community, negotiated partner perks, visibility with LPs, etc.)

What we’re not:

• Slow Our startups describe us as a “hyper-reactive” team and expect us to stay that way. Prioritization is key to maintaining this level of responsiveness.

• Consultants We do not give abstract advice. We benchmark, structure information and provide actionable insights.

• Experts in everything No one can be an expert across all topics and sectors. We choose to be strong generalists and work with best-in-class experts when needed.

• Investors We work very closely with our investment team, but we do not act as investors. Our role is to bring complementary operational value.

The Team

XAnge’s Startup Success team currently consists of five people:

• Pauline, Partner in charge of Operations

• Pierre, Startup Success Senior Associate

• Rita, Startup Success Senior Associate

• Gersende, our (very lucky) intern

• And you!

The team is based in Paris with regular trips to Berlin and Bruxelles. Being based in Berlin could be an option.

Why we need you?

The Startup Success team is, quite literally, a victim of its own success.

The volume of incoming requests from founders is growing fast, and we want to reinforce the team to maintain our level of operational excellence.

In addition, we have an ambitious backlog of projects we want to bring to life. For example:

• Launching a business development acceleration program to help Seed-stage startups generate revenue

• Designing an AI acceleration program to help founders optimize their operations and growth margin

Your responsibilities

• Respond to founders’ and C-level executives’ requests using our existing resources, with a high level of quality, rigor and responsiveness

• Design and deploy new acceleration programs, content and tools to address key operational challenges

• Act as a facilitator of our founder and executive community: event organization, founder retreat, peer discussions, newsletters

• Contribute to our marketing efforts to increase the visibility of XAnge Startup Success within the startup ecosystem

• More broadly, contribute to the development, strategy and day-to-day operations of the Startup Success team

Why join us?

• Have you always wanted to be a CEO’s right-hand or a Chief of Staff? This role gives you the opportunity to be exactly that for more than 80 startups at the same time.

• Startup support within VC firms is still relatively new in Europe. In France, fewer than 100 people do this job today. This leaves a lot of room to innovate, build a differentiated approach and shape the future of startup support.

• You will join a bi-cultural, service-oriented team (France / Germany) in a caring and demanding environment. Continuous learning is part of our culture.

• XAnge’s Managing Partners consider Startup Success a core pillar of the firm. Team members are rewarded accordingly, including access to carried interest.

• Competitive salary, with an additional performance related bonus and access to carried interest.

• XAnge provides budget for training to support your personal and professional development.

• Access to Wellpass

• 50% commuting (carte Navigo)

• Meal vouchers (9€ / day)

• Remote work

• You are a former entrepreneur or have worked in a startup or scale-up environment and deeply understand founders’ realities

• You are hands-on, comfortable with multitasking, and known for your ability to step outside your comfort zone

• You are autonomous, structured and a strong team player

• You are passionate about tech and digital startups, with strong exposure to no-code tools

• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills

• You are fluent in English and French. German is a plus

• First call with Pauline, and Rita

• Case study to do at home.

• 2-3h live immersion with Startup Success Team on concrete question from our entrepreneurs or project we are developing.

• Meet XAnge Managing partners