Founder's Associate (f/m/x)

Creandum; Berlin (MD); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible working hours

Hybrid Berlin office

Learning budget

Team events

Deutschlandticket

Beatvest discount

EU workation

Job summary

lemon.markets is building Brokerage-as-a-Service to enable investors across Europe. As a Founder’s Associate, you will work closely with the Founder and CEO to drive strategic priorities and execution across commercial, product, and operations teams.

You will own high-impact projects, mentor the intern team, and help scale the company while collaborating with the parent group, dwpbank. This is a fast-moving fintech environment offering growth and ownership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor and master degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Computer science or a similar area.
• Entrepreneurial problem solver with ownership mindset.
• 2+ years in a fast-paced environment; fintech/startup/tech background ideal.
• Experience from brokerage, trading or custody desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support the Founder and CEO on strategic and operational projects driving company goals.
• Own and lead projects focusing on brokerage, custody and capital markets.
• Analyze market developments and trends across European financial infrastructure.
• Lead special projects supporting Lemon.markets' growth and scale.
• Mentor and structure the Founder’s Associate Intern team and ensure quality execution.
• Refine internal processes and operating structures, leveraging AI opportunities.
• Execute cross-functional initiatives across teams and align priorities across the org.
• Bridge gaps and blockers to enable effective cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Business administration

Entrepreneurial mindset

Fast-paced experience

Brokerage/trading experience

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree

Job description

About lemon.markets

We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers.

lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer‑centric, compliant products in weeks, not months.

As part of the dwpbank group, we’re adding a layer of resources and expertise to benefit from, while continuing to operate as an independent fintech with our own team, product, and start‑up identity under the dwpbank umbrella.

Your Mission:

As a Founder’s Associate, you will work closely with the Founder and CEO and leadership team to help drive the company’s strategic priorities and operational execution.

In this role, you will take ownership of high‑impact, cross‑functional projects across the business. These may range from supporting strategic initiatives in commercial, product, and operations teams to improving internal processes, building organisational structures, and helping ensure alignment as the company scales.

This role is ideal for someone who is excited by our mission of enabling anyone to invest in capital markets. You will be close to many strategic initiatives and interact beyond lemon.markets towards our parent company, dwpbank. You will get the best of both worlds: the opportunity to work closely with experienced experts across functions while taking on meaningful ownership in a dynamic and ambitious environment.

This is going to be the ride of a lifetime for someone, who thrives in a fast‑moving environment, enjoys solving ambiguous problems, and wants to gain first‑hand experience in how a high‑growth fintech infrastructure company is built.

You will:

• Support the Founder and CEO on strategic and operational projects that drive company goals and priorities.

• Own and lead projects with a deep focus on brokerage, custody and capital markets, this is where you will spend a significant part of your time and where domain knowledge is essential.

• Analyse market developments, competitor dynamics, and trends across the European brokerage, wealth, and investment infrastructure landscape.

• Take ownership of special projects that support the next stage of lemon.markets’ growth.

• Lead and mentor the Founder’s Associate Intern team, providing structure, guidance, and prioritisation across projects while helping develop their skills and ensuring high‑quality execution.

• Contribute to refining and scaling internal processes, documentation, and operating structures across the company, especially in light of what becomes possible with AI.

• Help develop, structure, and execute cross‑functional initiatives across teams.

• Act as a connector across the organisation by understanding team priorities, spotting gaps and blockers early, and helping drive effective cross‑functional collaboration.

You’ll be successful in this role if you:

• You have a background (bachelor and master degree) in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Computer science or a similar area.

• You are an entrepreneurial problem solver. You strive to take ownership of the tasks you get and apply your analytical skills, structured thinking, and independent working style towards solving them.

• You have gained 2 years or more of hands‑on experience in a fast‑paced environment. Ideally, you have worked in an early‑stage startup, fintech, consulting, tech company or similar.

• You bring experience from the world of brokerage, trading or custody and/or are deeply excited to get into the engine room details of our mission to make anyone an investor.

• You cope well with frequent change and ambiguity. Changing tasks & requirements excite you. You are able to think logically, break down complex problems and prioritise between multiple tasks on your table.

• You are a team player. Working together as a team and sharing knowledge comes naturally to you.

• You never let anything fall down your plate. Being on top of things is what you are known for. Having no hesitation to follow up on people until the job gets done.

• You are ready and willing to take ownership. “This is not my job!” is not part of your vocabulary - you identify problems, take initiative to take them on, and challenge the status quo.

How we take care of you:

• Compensation package: We offer you a competitive salary, based on your experience and the value‑add you bring to lemon.markets.

• Flexible working hours: We trust people to choose when they work best and avoid a rigid 9 to 5 mindset. You decide on the rhythm that helps you do your best work, with only shared core hours from 12:00 to 16:00 to support collaboration.

• Hybrid work setup: You can work from anywhere in Germany within a hybrid model. At the same time, in‑person collaboration is a key part of our culture. That being said, individual contributer lemoneers work 4 days or more per month on‑site in our Berlin office, spending quality time together with the team at events, onsites/offsites or over team dinners.

• Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously! You’ll get regular mentorship and stretch opportunities, a clear career development framework with frequent feedback conversations as well as an annual learning budget.

• People & culture: You’ll feel our culture in the small things, like Polaroids from our lemoneers’ first day and our monthly new‑joiner breakfasts. But also in the bigger things, like celebrating the onboarding of new partners or our annual offsites, where the whole company comes together to connect, reflect, and celebrate.

• Perks & benefits: We choose benefits that add actual value. We sponsor a Deutschlandticket for employees on unlimited contracts, plus 50% off on Beatvest - our partner for financial education and investing.

• Workation: Get out of here! At lemon.markets you can work remotely from anywhere in the EU for up to 10 consecutive days at a time, and up to 60 days per year in total.

As an equal opportunity employer, lemon.markets is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company welcomes people from all different backgrounds, including age, citizenship, ethnic and racial origins, gender identities, individuals with disabilities, marital status, religions and ideologies, and sexual orientations to apply.

You have any questions? Feel free to contact us via [e-mail]