Operations Associate (Direct Services) (f/m/x) - hybrid
About this role
Founded in 2017, refurbed is Europe’s fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products, active in 12 European countries and having surpassed €2Bn in GMV — all while being profitable. With beautiful headquarters in Vienna, we operate as a remote-first company, and our 250+ employees enjoy up to two months of workation per year. We’ve also been recognised as a Top DACH Employer by Kununu for three consecutive years.
Our mission is to make sustainable consumption the easy choice by enabling customers to buy products up to 40% cheaper while significantly reducing CO₂ emissions.
If you thrive in an environment that values momentum, ownership, and impact, you’ll feel at home here. We’re a fast-paced, high-performance team that works hard and challenges itself everyday. To enable this high-performance every team member enjoys full autonomy over their location (we’re remote-first).
Join our Direct team at the intersection of insurance, repair, and trade-in. You'll work closely with the eCommerce Expert leading the services portfolio, support the Head of Direct, and partner with Finance, Legal, Product, and Analytics.
This is a high-exposure role for someone early in their career. You'll be in partner negotiations with insurance carriers, executive-level trade-in strategy, contract reviews, and the data work behind all of it.
Who you are
1–3 years of experience in operations, analytics, or commercial functions: startup, scaleup, or fast-moving environment (marketplace, insurance, ecommerce, fintech, or similar)
Hypothesis-first thinker who writes clearly and communicates directly, including across functions and with senior stakeholders. Comfortable operating in ambiguity, managing uncertainty, and balancing multiple priorities without becoming overwhelmed.
You've shipped at least one automation (Notion, Zapier, Make, Airtable, or scripts) and can describe what it replaced
AI fluent: you use Claude or ChatGPT in your daily work and know how to iterate and when not to trust the output
Fluent in English: other European languages are a plus
You care about sustainability and want your work to matter
Quantitatively confident: spreadsheets, modelling, and turning vague problems into concrete analysis; SQL, Python, or no-code tools are a plus
Location & eligibility: This role is open to candidates based in Europe (including UK) only with a valid right to work.
Responsibilities
- Run operational and analytical work across Insurance, Extended Warranty, Repair, and Trade-In: pricing scenarios, margin analysis, partner reviews, and dashboards
- Find manual work and automate it: we expect one shipped automation by month three
- Drive cross-functional projects, keeping Finance, Legal, Product, and Analytics aligned
- Support partner negotiations with insurance carriers, repair networks, and trade-in partners
- Use prioritisation frameworks (e.g. RICE, Impact vs Effort) to sequence initiatives and communicate trade-offs
- Bonus: You have shipped a side project that took serious effort, whether a small business, a community, a research project, or a tool.
- WHY YOU WILL ENJOY WORKING WITH US:
- Our Culture and Values:
- Decisions should be made based on facts and not by hierarchy levels? We sure think so!
- We embrace giving and receiving feedback, testing and welcoming new ideas, as well as sharing our knowledge across the company.
- You fail sometimes? Well, so do we! We’re all just human, let’s learn from our mistakes to improve in the future!
- No matter who you love, where you’re from, who you pray to, whether you pee sitting down or standing up – we are a bunch of talented people who enjoy spending our time making a difference!
- Personal & Professional Development:
- You'll have access to a dedicated learning budget within your department to support your growth, whether it's courses, conferences, or other learning opportunities that matter to you.
- We partner with Likeminded, offering you private sessions with experts for your personal growth and mental health.
- We frequently host internal workshops, allowing our teams to further develop their skills in different areas and enhancing collaboration across departments.
- Flexibility:
- We care about a healthy work/life balance. We not only function and support a fully remote setting but also offer the possibility to work from our beautiful office in the vibrant heart of Vienna – we love dogs, so feel free to bring your furry little buddy too 😊
- We trust you to do the best job, so we don't care so much when you do it – you are able to self-organize.
- You will also be invited to take part in our office weeks, happening three times a year, where you will have the chance to work side by side with your colleagues and enjoy the team-building events and on-site workshops
- …and much more! See https://careers.refurbed.com/ for further insights!