Founders Associate – Special Projects
First Momentum Ventures
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Munich • 🇩🇪 Germany
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About the role
- You'll be the wingman of our partners and sit at the heart of First Momentum’s highest‑leverage projects, raising the next fund, launching spin‑offs, and unblocking portfolio companies while communicating fluently in German and English.
- Unlock our third fund generation: drive the LP pipeline, support building the data room, refine decks and DDQs, and be a pillar of the fund‑structuring team in close collaboration with our Head of Finance and founding partners.
- Run special missions: partner with portfolio companies to accelerate financing rounds, GTM pushes, or key hires, delivering tangible results in weeks, not months.
- Validate and co‑incubate ventures: test new ideas, recruit core teams, and step in as launch co‑founder when conviction is high.
- Coordinate strategic execution: turn whiteboard concepts into work plans, track cross-team OKRs, and keep mission-critical tasks on track, especially for high-priority projects.
- Own stakeholder communication: craft crisp updates, handle inbound requests, and represent First Momentum across Europe’s tech hubs in flawless German and English.
- Sharpen our operating stack: keep the CRM, dashboards, and playbooks humming, so we can move better and faster.
Requirements
- You thrive in fast‑paced environments and already have hands‑on experience from internships or an early career stint in VC, startups, consulting, or another high‑intensity setting.
- You bring extreme ownership and high agency to spot problems, design a plan, and focus on execution.
- You work in a relentlessly structured way, are skilled in process optimisation, and have a good sense of balancing speed and perfection depending on the challenge at hand.
- You’re a clear, concise communicator in both German and English; you can interact with partners, the team, founders, LPs, service providers spot-on.
- You learn fast and fancy technical topics; a genuine curiosity for deep‑tech or hard‑tech domains is a definite plus.
- Bonus points if you’ve already supported fundraising rounds or VC deal flow and want to deepen that skill set.
- You’re likely a recent graduate or early‑career professional who already knows how to operate at high speed and is eager to scale that capability with us.
Benefits
- Build & shape a sector-defining fund: First Momentum is one of the few through-and-through deep tech funds in Europe.
- See the full venture stack: gain end‑to‑end exposure to investing, portfolio work, as well as the nuts and bolts of structuring and closing a new fund.
- High autonomy and steep learning curve: own critical workstreams in a fast‑paced team that values action over hierarchy.
- Exceptional colleagues who thrive on debate, rigour, and mutual support.
- Attractive package: salary plus project‑based bonuses that reward the impact you deliver, incl. a carry component in our funds.
- Partner‑level mentoring: work day‑to‑day with the founding partners, accelerating your personal growth through direct guidance on strategic projects and interactions.
- Launchpad for your next move: We will set you up for a future role in VC, as a Chief‑of‑Staff in our portfolio, or prepping if you want to start your venture.
- In‑person start for maximum impact: spend your first 12-18 months side by side with the core team in Munich to secure early wins on key projects, then transition to a more flexible, distributed mode across Europe’s deep‑tech hubs.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
fundraisingdata room managementdue diligence questionnaires (DDQs)process optimizationstakeholder communicationproject managementOKR trackingventure capital (VC) deal flowGTM strategyteam recruitment
Soft skills
extreme ownershiphigh agencyclear communicationstructured thinkingproblem-solvingcuriosityadaptabilitycollaborationexecution focusfast learning