Founders Associate - Special Projects (m/f/d)

The impact you will have

• work directly with the founders on the problems that matter. Beni, Niklas and Shane bring you into the projects they don't have time to run themselves. strategy, ops, product, hiring, whatever the week demands. you take a piece and own it end to end.
• turn ambiguity into shipped work. you get problems, not task lists. you write the plan, execute it, and don't need to be chased for progress. the founders find out how it went in the update, not in the meeting.
• build the systems opus runs on. hiring pipelines, onboarding docs, reporting cadences, internal knowledge. One intern built the GTM foundation opus still uses. Another built the hiring engine. you build what comes next.
• turn research into decisions. market, customers, competitors, potential hires, potential partners. you dig, you write it up in a memo the founders can act on in ten minutes, and the decision gets made because of your work.
• make the founders sharper. every deck you prep, every KPI you clean up, every memo you write is one less thing the founders have to think about. the leverage of the company runs through you.

What makes you a great fit

• high agency. you take a problem, write the plan, ship the outcome. you don't wait to be told what to do.
• sharp writing and thinking. you turn messy inputs into clear, short memos the founders can act on. structure comes naturally to you.
• builder mindset. if something is missing, you build it. you iterate, you improve, you don't over-polish.
• prior experience in high pace environments. a startup internship, an MBB or IB stint, a side project you scaled. if you've seen high-intensity work before, you ramp faster. if not, ambition compensates.
• AI-native by default. Claude for memos, Cursor for prototypes, whatever workflow gets it done fastest. if a task takes an hour and could take ten minutes, you find the ten-minute version.

What we offer

The opus package

• Competitive compensation – real ownership in opus' long-term success.
• Impact from day one – high ownership, fast customer feedback, responsibility for outcomes.
• AI-first, builder environment – the best tools, low overhead, strong bias to ship and learn.
• In-person by design – Berlin-Mitte office, high focus, ambitious team, low ego.
• 28 vacation days & flexibility when you need to recharge

• available for 3 to 6 months, in person in Berlin.
• start ASAP