Founders Associate (m/f/d)
Posted on Aug 10, 2026
Founders Associate (m/f/d)
AI Agents to Bridge the Gap between Engineering & Purchasing to reduce manufacturing waste
My co-founder Ian and I combine over 15 years of industry experience, working with companies like SEW-Eurodrive, Terex, Bosch and Carl Zeiss. We co-founded Resourcly, a Project A-backed, industrial tech start-up to help industrial manufacturers streamline complex portfolios to improve EBIT while preventing and reducing idle inventory from being scrapped.
With our solution, we want to solve industry problems that we have tried to address for the last decade in the manufacturing companies we worked for, but that have so far been out of reach. With new technology and AI, that can finally happen.
Complex processes and products, lack of engineering talent and massive labour costs as well as a lack of intelligent automation have remained the industry's most pressing challenge. With LLMs and agents, we finally have the tools to solve this.
Our vision is that future purchasing and engineering processes will be orchestrated and run by an AI workforce - ensuring reliable and cost-efficient procurement and flow of goods in an uncertain and complicated world with finite resources.
🦾 We're already live with global manufacturing leaders in Europe
💰 Backed by one of Europe's top early-stage funds (Project A)
📈 Growing fast and hiring exceptional talent to join early
Our goal is to build a small, but excellent team, therefore we are looking for a Founders Associate. If you are excited to work in a very early-stage environment alongside the founding team, using AI at the product core to solve meaningful problems - please reach out.
The Role
As our Founders Associate, you will serve as strategic partner and operational multiplier to Resourcly's founders, especially our CEO Helena. This is a true company-building role: you will amplify our commercial engine, own the hiring process that builds our team, support our next financing round, and turn what works into processes that scale.
You will work directly with the CEO, alongside the founding team, chief of staff, and sales, customer, and engineering teams to solve high-impact problems across operations, strategy, capital, and people. This role is ideal for a high-performing generalist who thrives in ambiguity, communicates crisply, and takes pride in turning chaos into clarity.
🪄 Key Responsibilities
Support our commercial engine by helping the CEO prepare high-value customer conversations, proposals, tailored business cases, case studies, white papers, and by turning market and competitive intelligence into insights for go-to-market and product
Build the team with us by owning the hiring engine end-to-end: scorecards, job descriptions, sourcing, candidate experience, and onboarding that gets new joiners productive fast
Drive special projects across domains, from market entry studies and strategic partnerships to quarterly offsites - you take ambiguous questions and return decisions founders can act on
Support our next financing round by preparing investor materials with the CEO, building KPI dashboards, shipping investor updates, and managing the investor pipeline during the raise
Turn chaos into process by running our operating cadence (leadership meetings, all-hands, retros), documenting playbooks, and owning our internal tooling incl. AI workflows
🧑🚀 Who You Are
Take full ownership: You drive projects from ambiguous idea to shipped outcome - no follow-up needed, no balls dropped
Bring a startup mindset with high agency: Comfortable with ambiguity, willing to build from scratch, and quick to experiment and iterate based on impact
An exceptional communicator: You write and speak clearly and persuasively, adapting your tone for founders, investors, candidates, and customers (verbally & written)
Thrive on context-switching: You move between an investor deck, a hiring funnel, a customer business case, and more in one day without losing quality
Low ego, company-first mindset: You prioritize long-term impact over personal credit and earn trust through results and consistent performance
Organized and self-directed: You manage your own priorities, track your own outcomes, and bring structure wherever you go
Sense of urgency: You fight inertia, complacency, and move mountains, now
🧑💻 Your Capabilities
You bring 2-5 years of experience in a startup, consulting, VC, or founder-track role - you have seen what excellent execution looks like and can deliver it independently, while setting the standard instead of keeping up with it
You produce founder-grade materials: Pitch decks, memos, keynote decks, business cases, and board-ready updates that are clear, sharp, and persuasive
You manage projects across functions: You have delivered initiatives spanning commercial, people, and operations workstreams, on time and to a high standard
You are analytical and data-driven: Comfortable building KPI dashboards, business cases, and ROI logic from scratch
You are fluent with modern tooling: Notion, CRM systems, Sheets/Slides, and AI-native workflows that multiply your output
You are fluent in English and German
Optional, but a plus: Exposure to industrial manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, or B2B SaaS environments
📍 Location & Logistics
3 days in office (Mannheim, Germany)
Start: As soon as possible
Compensation: Top of market (We're constrained by bandwidth, not demand - great time to negotiate)
How to Apply
Please send your CV together with a brief introduction to recruiting@resourcly.com and we will get back to you!
🌍 Note from Helena, CEO of Resourcly
What drives me personally is the deep belief that Germany and Europe's long-term prosperity and sovereignty depend on a strong, independent economic engine. To secure that future, we need more AI product-first European champions on the global stage - building not just great software, but foundational systems that change how industries operate today.
My mission is to build one of the world's biggest automation companies for manufacturing - from Europe. While our headquarters will remain European, our ambition is global. From day one, we benchmark ourselves against the very best in the world and design our product for international scale.
But there's something deeper that fuels this: the transition to a circular economy. I've seen firsthand how complexity in supply chains leads to waste, and how intransparency drives inefficiency - and, inevitably, more waste. In a world of shrinking resources and rising expectations, this is not just an environmental problem - it's a business and economic imperative.
At Resourcly, we're building the infrastructure to turn unused resources into opportunities, to match supply and demand across silos, and to help manufacturers become more resilient, efficient, and circular - without needing to overhaul their entire systems.
If you share this drive - to make global impact through technology, and to build a more circular, sovereign industrial base for Europe - we would love to hear from you.
