
Founders Associate
beatvest
part-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in Europe
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About the role
- Your focus will be clearly on B2B sales and strategic customer work: Sales presentations & pitch materials: creating and continuously improving persuasive presentations and sales decks for B2B client meetings — structured, data-driven, and to the point
- Key Account Management: maintaining and strategically expanding existing client relationships, identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities
- B2B pipeline development: identifying, contacting and qualifying potential corporate partners and customers
- Strategic analyses: market, competitor and customer analyses to inform the sales strategy
- Supporting the founders: assisting with client meetings, negotiations and the further development of our go-to-market approach
- Process optimization: reviewing and optimizing existing sales and account management processes
- Reporting: contributing to our KPI- and data-driven management system; preparing regular and ad-hoc reports
Requirements
- Experience in a management consultancy (e.g., MBB, Big4, strategy consulting or comparable) — you bring the analytical and structured thinking learned there
- You speak fluent German and very good English
- Strong ability to present complex matters clearly and persuasively — whether in a deck or in conversation
- You are a "doer": you can develop abstract strategies and are ready to implement them operationally
- Nice-to-have: experience in B2B sales, account management or business development
- Affinity for fintech, financial products or SaaS
- Experience in a startup environment
- Personal: independent working style with an eye for detail without getting lost in it
- Flexible and resilient in a fast-changing environment
- Growth mindset and openness to new tasks
Benefits
- You are not just an employee with a number — you experience the impact of your work first-hand
- Direct collaboration with the founders on equal footing
- Steep learning curve: from sales strategy and negotiation to building a B2B business in a startup
- Ideal preparation for starting your own company or a career in business development / sales leadership
- You choose when and where you work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
B2B saleskey account managementpipeline developmentmarket analysiscompetitor analysiscustomer analysisprocess optimizationreportingdata-driven managementsales presentations
Soft Skills
analytical thinkingstructured thinkingpresentation skillsindependent workingflexibilityresiliencegrowth mindsetpersuasivenessattention to detailopenness to new tasks