Founder's Associate

Vor 7 Tagen

Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland Ucaneo Vollzeit 60.000 € - 90.000 € pro Jahr


Your mission

As our Founder's Associate, your mission is to keep Ucaneo running smoothly behind the scenes. You'll oversee critical internal processes — from financial planning and grant coordination to operational administration such as inventory and visa support. You'll help shape our company culture through well-organized events and smooth team operations. Working closely with the founders, you'll build scalable systems that drive clarity, efficiency, and sustainable growth across the organization.

Key Responsibilties
  • Financial Control – manage company spending and invoicing through our financial tool, support budgeting and reporting cycles, and maintain up-to-date business plans and financial models.
  • Grant & Funding Management – prepare financial documentation for public grants and funding programs, ensuring compliance, timely submissions, and accurate reporting.
  • Asset & Inventory Management – establish and maintain an organized inventory of company assets, lab and office equipment, and procurement records.
  • People & Operations – support HR administration, onboarding, and visa processes while coordinating procurement, contracts, and vendor relations.
  • Culture & Events – organize company events, offsites, and team travel, fostering collaboration and a strong team culture across the organization.


Your profile

Skills & Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
  • 2–3 years in a Finance, Controlling, or Operations role, ideally in a startup or fast-paced environment.
  • Strong proficiency in financial modeling and spreadsheet analysis, familiarity with expense management systems, and solid understanding of key SaaS metrics and business fundamentals. Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills (mandatory).
  • Strong numerical and problem-solving abilities; data-driven decision-maker.
  • Highly structured, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to communicate complex information clearly.
  • Fluency in German and strong working proficiency in English.
Workstyle and culture
  • Fast learning and quick to grasp complex topics
  • A team player with a hands-on mentality
  • Authentic and reflective self
  • self-Organizer and structures workstyle to keep focus and get things done
  • Good listener and effective communicator in cross-sectional team
  • Curious and open-minded
Other
  • Valid Work Permit for Germany, or able to obtain a permit


Benefits
  • Unique experience contributing to a first-of-a-kind climate-tech project (tFOAK).
  • A steep learning curve, exposure to cross-functional challenges, and the ability to shape a project from the ground up.
  • Working directly with the founders
  • Fast-paced, collaborative environment where your decisions have a real impact.
  • Competitive compensation and personal growth opportunities.
  • Employee stock options
  • Flexible working hours
  • Regular team events
  • Subsidized BVG ticket
  • Laptop and your individual work set up


About us

We are an early startup with a big vision - remove 500 million tons of global CO2 emissions from the air by 2035 through Direct Air Capture, roughly the same weight as all humans on earth combined

To meet our climate targets the reduction of CO2 emissions is not enough, the world actively has to remove billions of tons of CO2 from our atmosphere. To achieve that we at Ucaneo develop an innovative electrochemical Direct Air Capture technology mimicking the human lung to remove CO2 from ambient air.

We are a science and mission-driven team, fast-moving with a break-or-make attitude. Our office and industrial hall is located at Schwarze-Pumpe-Weg 16, 12681 Berlin including a large outdoor area to build one of the largest industrial DAC plants in Germany.

Our commitment to you:
  • Impact: You will work on the biggest problem of our time, climate change, with the potential to impact the lives of billions of people
  • Day to day: Full responsibility to design your own workstream and control your working hours with a very high degree of freedom, flat hierarchy and teamwork
  • Professional growth: Join a disruptive high-growth tech startup from day 1 and grow / lead a high-performing team

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