Applied AI Co-Founder / CPTO (100 % remote) (m/f/d)

OpenKrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary while you build

€500k funding

1:1 sparring with unicorn founders

Top founders/investors access

Network of 50,000 professionals

Sales/marketing support

Funding for multi‑million rounds

Job summary

OpenKrill invites ambitious entrepreneurs to join a fellowship to start and scale their own startups, backed by serial entrepreneurs who built unicorns.

You’ll receive a salary while you build, with optional funding up to €500k, weekly 1:1 sparring with unicorn founders, access to top founders and investors, and broad hiring support through our network. Funding for multi‑million euro rounds is available within 12 months.

Qualifications

• You are based in Europe or the Americas or open to relocate.
• You are willing to take full responsibility for your own startup and scale it to €100M+ in revenues.
• You have excellent communication skills in the English language.

Responsibilities

• You will own, build, and run your startup in fields such as Applied AI.
• You will embark on an extensive personal development journey crafted by unicorn founders and follow a fully customised programme enhancing your goal, time, and energy management.
• You will receive support in hiring through our network to over 50,000 professionals and advice as well as best practices from serial entrepreneurs.
• You will receive intensive coaching to make your startup ready to raise millions in funding.
• You will iterate your product with us until having reached product-market-fit and receive support in building up a sales force or creating a marketing engine respectively.

Job description

We are looking to hire ambitious entrepreneurs to start and scale their own startups. We are serial entrepreneurs, for example Paul Müller (founder Adjust, €1.2B exit) and Petter Made (founder SumUp, €8B) who are eager to support outlier personalities and serial entrepreneurs to build €1B+ companies.

Our offer

• A salary while you build your startup as you will directly be employed by us. Alternatively, you can opt for up to €500k in funding.
• 1:1 sparring with unicorn founders on a weekly basis
• Community: Access to the top 0.1% of founders, peers and investors
• Team building: Hiring top notch talent supported through our network (over 50,000 professionals)
• Distribution: Support in reaching product-market-fit and building up a sales force / marketing machine
• Funding support for securing a multi-million euro funding round within 12 months (on average, EWOR Fellows raise > €2M after our Grand Pitch)

One of our fellows set a record for Europe’s largest pre-seed round by a first-time founder, securing a €12M pre-seed investment.

Tasks

• You will own, build, and run your startup in fields such as Applied AI.
• You will embark on an extensive personal development journey crafted by unicorn founders and follow a fully customised programme enhancing your goal, time, and energy management.
• You will receive support in hiring through our network to over 50,000 professionals and advice as well as best practices from serial entrepreneurs.
• You will receive intensive coaching to make your startup ready to raise millions in funding.
• You will iterate your product with us until having reached product-market-fit and receive support in building up a sales force or creating a marketing engine respectively.

Requirements

• You are based in Europe or the Americas or open to relocate.
• You are willing to take full responsibility for your own startup and scale it to €100M+ in revenues.
• You have excellent communication skills in the English language.

Join us and build a €1B+ company with us!