Founder Associate (gn) @ AI Venture, Berlin
About this role
This is an Atlantic portfolio venture.
About the Venture
AI is being built into more products every month, and every interaction consumes tokens. As usage grows, the costs add up quickly. The first race was adoption. The next one is efficiency, because inference costs increasingly decide what companies can afford to build and ship. We are building the efficiency layer for production AI. Our systems make AI dramatically leaner, cutting token usage and lowering the cost of every interaction without giving up the quality standards that matter. We work with enterprise software companies, and we want to become a core part of the global AI ecosystem.
About the Role
You will work directly with our founder and CEO on whatever matters most that week. A lot of it is commercial: working out who needs us, getting into conversations with them, understanding what they run and what it costs them. The rest is everything else that needs doing when a company is this young. We closed our pre-seed in 3 weeks and are now preparing our first customer pilots, so there is a lot of ground to cover and very few people to cover it. This is a rare seat for someone early in their career / you will see how a company gets built and you will build a good part of it yourself.
Responsibilities
- Work alongside the founder on the priorities that matter most, which will change as we grow.
- Research the market and help us work out who our best customers are and why.
- Build target lists, write outreach and get conversations started with technology and software companies in DACH.
- Join customer conversations, take notes that matter and turn what you hear into sharper positioning.
- Learn how customers run th