Business Operations

Farmless; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily plant-based lunch

Offsites & team drinks

In-house gym

Team sport activities

Job summary

Farmless is seeking a versatile operations generalist who will own day-to-day business ops across finance, reporting, grants, and internal systems. You will build scalable processes and systems to support rapid growth while managing non-dilutive funding efforts.

You’ll jump into high-impact tasks beyond a fixed job description and help the team move fast and responsibly. You’ll thrive in a mission-driven environment that values autonomy, speed, and ambitious outcomes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a startup, VC, or other demanding environment.
• You own problems and proactively find solutions when scope is unclear.
• You simplify processes, automate workflows, and build scalable tools.
• You’re driven by a mission to improve sustainability in food.
• Bonus: Dutch language skills and willingness to engage in local ops.

Responsibilities

• Keep day-to-day business ops across finance, reporting, communications, and multiple small projects.
• Build internal systems to help the team scale and decision-making.
• Identify, write, and manage grants and consortia for non-dilutive funding.
• Tackle unglamorous, urgent tasks with speed and rigor.

Skills

Startup experience

Problem ownership

Systems thinking

Dutch language (bonus)

Job description

The role

We’re looking for a high-agency generalist who finds bottlenecks and owns problems that do not fit neatly into anyone else’s responsibilities. Your work will span finance, reporting, grants, internal systems, and the unexpected challenges that come with building a deep-tech company.

What you’ll do

• Keep everything running. Own day-to-day business ops across finance, reporting, communications, and dozens of small projects.

• Build for scale. Turn growing pains into internal systems that help us make decisions faster.

• Win non-dilutive funding. Help identify, write, and manage grants and consortia.

• Do stuff that doesn’t scale. Moving fast often comes from doing unglamorous things properly. You’ll jump into whatever matters most, whether or not it was in the original job description.

What we’re looking for

• Some scar tissue. You have more than three years of experience in a startup, VC, or another demanding environment. You’ve seen plans break, priorities change, and good ideas fail. You thrive on variety, can handle uncertainty and understand urgency.

• Own the problem. You don’t wait for a perfectly defined scope. If something is broken, you find a solution proactively.

• Think in systems. Repetitive work bothers you. You naturally simplify processes, automate workflows, and build tools that help a small team do more.

• This is a mission, not just a job. The possibility of producing dramatically more sustainable and ethical food genuinely excites you.

• Bonus Points! Hard-won experience in startup finance, grants, non-dilutive funding, or company-building (plus mistakes that taught you how to do it better). Extra bonus points for speaking Dutch (sorry): it’s useful for local operations and some external communication. English remains our default office language.
  

Rewards

• A flat, fast, and curious team working on one of the most exciting challenges in food

• A high-talent, low-ego culture where ideas and outcomes matter more than titles

• Serious responsibility and direct exposure to company-building

• Daily plant-based lunch, snacks, fruits, drinks

• Fun offsites & team drinks

• In house gym & regular team sport activities

What we’re building

We’re going beyond the limiting constraints of photosynthesis.

We use natural fermentation to turn simple ingredients into complex proteins. It’s what we've been doing for millennia with wine, beer, bread and yoghurt.

Yet most fermentations rely on sugars - which are derived from crops grown on agricultural land. Our fermentation platform relies on an easily storable and shippable renewable energy based feedstock. This allows us to break free from the limiting constraints of photosynthesis.

What we are building is the spiritual successor to the Haber-Bosch process. While Haber-Bosch led to cheap synthetic fertilizer which currently feeds half of humanity, we have found a way to produce amino acid complete proteins up to ±5000X more land efficient than animals. By rough approximation this could multiply the carrying capacity of the earth by an order of magnitude. The result of our ambition should be visible from space.

About us

We’re a small, highly technical and deeply curious team with deep food and fermentation expertise with backgrounds from The Vegetarian Butcher and Perfect Day to Lanzatech and many more.

We’re flat and interdisciplinary by design. We value autonomy, speed, and ambition. You’ll have the freedom to build, and the responsibility to do it well.

We’re based within the city ring of Amsterdam – for a reason. We want to attract the best people from around the world and believe that Amsterdam is a great place to settle – and bike to work. On top of that, the Netherlands is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. The Dutch have a mindset to push the boundaries of food production and have the practical expertise to scale up our fermentation platform.

We believe hardware startups can thrive in Europe. If we can get approval here, we can do it anywhere (and we want Europe to accelerate).

We’ve raised +€10M from world-class investors including World Fund, Vorwerk Ventures, Revent, and Nucleus Capital, and European and national grants.