P
Founder’s Associate / Entrepreneur in Residence
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
3 years
Job description
A founding-team generalist role ('right hand' to the founders) at an early-stage startup building a trademark protection venture. The person works across company set-up, go-to-market, hiring, partnerships and operations.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Setting up the company: incorporation, structure, banking, legal and administrative set-up across countries
- Go-to-market: shaping positioning and pricing, testing channels, and winning our first customers
- Hiring: finding, approaching and onboarding our first team members, including trademark professionals across Europe
- Partnerships: building relationships with partners, advisors and service providers
- Operations: turning chaos into processes, and processes into something that scales
- Anything else that moves the company forward, from investor materials to customer calls
What we're looking for
- 2–5 years of experience in a startup, scale-up, VC, consulting or a similar fast-paced environment
- A strong bias for action: you get things done without waiting for perfect information
- Structured thinking and the ability to switch between strategy and execution in the same hour
- Excellent communication skills, and you enjoy talking to customers, candidates and partners
- Fluency in English
- The ambition to found or lead a company yourself one day
Benefits
- Direct mentorship from serial founders: you'll be in every important conversation
- Real ownership from day one, with responsibility that grows as fast as you do
- Competitive pay plus a meaningful equity package
- A clear path to a leadership role as the company grows
- Flexible working and a small team with short decision paths
Apply
About Polara
A team of serial entrepreneurs starting a new venture that combines smart technology with real trademark expertise to make brand protection simple.
Key facts
- Team of serial entrepreneurs who have built and scaled companies before
- At the very beginning of building the company
- Combines smart technology with real trademark expertise