Founder's Associate (d/f/m)

Short Facts

• Location: Munich, Germany
• Employment Type: Full-Time, indefinite term
• Salary Range: € 58.000 – 70.000 per year gross depending on the experience level, and additional 5k target bonus
• Working Mode: Office first setup
• Language Requirement: C1 Level English (German is a plus, B2+ ideal but not required)

Your Responsibilities

As Founder's Associate, you will work closely with our both co-CEOs and our Chief of Staff to:

• Own in ternal AI automation end to end across our support functions ( People, Finance, Operations) — from talking to the human running a process today to shipping the agent that runs it tomorrow.
• Drive projects to improve our o perating model,  drive cimpany effectiveness and way-of-working
• Own zero-to-one projects to drive the next growth curve
• Support  in stakeholder engagement  internally for company all-hands meetings, with our shareholders, and with external parties (PR, conferences, etc.)

Your Profile

We care more about what you have built and how you think than about which degree you hold. We hire across business, engineering, hybrid (e.g. business-informatics) and self-taught backgrounds — what we look for is the same.

Mandatory Requirements

• 1–3 years of work experience (substantive internships count); ideally at a startup or scale-up where you owned end-to-end delivery.
• A track record of shipping things end-to-end — side projects you built and ran, internship deliverables that would not have shipped without you, a small business or initiative you started and operated. We care about evidence that you finish what you start.
• Operator instinct — when handed a vague brief you ask why the process exists in its current form before you write code. You can sit with a non-technical colleague, watch them work, and reframe the problem cheaper than they framed it.
• Coding strong enough to ship — Python is a must. You can read a codebase, structure a small one of your own, write tests, and reason about cost, latency and error handling. You will be asked to build a small working agent as part of our interview process.
• Hands-on experience designing and shipping AI agents or LLM-driven workflows in a real environment — not only prototypes. You have integrated a model with at least one external system (an API, a database, a tool).
• High agency and bias to ship — you don’t wait for the perfect spec; you find the smallest first version, ship it, and iterate.
• C1 English. Comfort working in an English-first office.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with at least one agent framework (LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI, n8n).
• Experience with RAG, vector stores, evals and prompt engineering at a non-trivial level.
• Exposure to Google Workspace API, Slack API, Atlassian API or HRIS / payroll APIs.
• TypeScript and SQL.
• Experience interviewing customers or stakeholders, scoping a product, or selling — anything where you turned what you heard into a working spec.
• German (B2+).
• Experience in B2C, energy or climate-tech is a bonus, not a requirement.

At Flexa, we are committed to diversity — of all backgrounds and experiences. You don’t need 100% of the preferred qualifications to add incredible value to our team. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits

• Professional Development: Annual development budget of 3,000 € for coachings, trainings, books, etc.
• Health & Sport Subsidy: Company subsidised sports facilities membership
• Jobticket
• Lunch/Dinner Allowance Vouchers: Allowance for meals on working days as digital meal vouchers
• Work Equipment: MacBook or Windows Laptop and ergonomic workplace
• Regular Team Events: Knowledge Sessions, Afterwork, Sports, Offsites etc.
• Front-row seat to applied AI: every week you will work with the newest models and frameworks on real, high-impact problems.

A Short Note from Your Future Lead

Sven – Chief of Staff

Hi there!

I'm Sven, Chief of Staff at Flexa, where we are building Europe's largest residential Virtual Power Plant — the AI-driven system that ties together solar panels, EVs, heat pumps and home batteries to help households save money and the grid stay stable. My role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations and execution: I work day to day with our two Co-CEOs to translate company priorities into the people, projects and processes that make them happen.

Before joining Flexa, I spent nearly five years at McKinsey & Company, advising energy-sector clients on high-impact strategy projects from large utilities navigating the energy transition to scale-ups figuring out how to commercialize new technology. Earlier, I studied economics, which shapes how I think about trade-offs, incentives and where the real leverage in a system sits.

At Flexa, we believe innovation happens when talented people are given real ownership and the trust to ship. I aim to create an environment where you can take …