Founder's Associate in Berlin

Your role at Kittl 🥁

As a Founder's Associate in the Growth organisation, you’ll take over and scale Kittl’s influencer partnerships. We’ve worked with 1,000+ influencers, and they’re one of our biggest acquisition channels for print-on-demand sellers and small product businesses. Your job is to automate, scale and build it out into a channel that delivers growth. From there, you can expand into affiliates, business partnerships or other roles in the growth org. We need someone that moves fast, wants to build, can close deals with partners, is AI native (that knows to avoid AI slop). This role reports to our Head of Growth working closely together with CEO and leadership.

What you'll do 📋

• Run and scale influencer partnerships: Own our influencer programme day to day and grow the subscriptions it brings in

• Automate it: Turn sourcing, outreach, onboarding and reporting into AI workflows, so the channel scales without a bigger team

• Sign the right influencers: Find, pitch and close the influencers our sellers listen to, and move budget to the ones that convert

• Build it out as an acquisition channel: Make it measurable and forecastable, with clear reporting on spend against subscriptions

• Expand: Grow into affiliates and business partnerships with the platforms, tools and communities our sellers already use

What you'll need ✅

• Growth you owned: Around 3 years in a startup or scale-up, in a founders associate, consulting, growth or BizOps role, where you moved a number yourself

• Commercial instinct: You've pitched and closed deals or partnerships yourself and enjoy the negotiation

• Problem-solver: You take an unclear problem, work it out from the data and explain your reasoning

• AI-native builder: You've built things that changed how work gets done. You know to avoid AI slop.

• Proactive and creative: You say "this happened, so I solved it" rather than "what should I do?", and you try angles others haven't

Nice to have 👌

• Experience with influencer, creator or affiliate partnerships

• E-commerce, print-on-demand or creator-economy background

Interview process 🔍

• Intro call with your recruiter (30 min)

• Interview with the hiring manager (30 min)

• Take-home challenge: a real problem from scaling partnerships: how you'd work it out, what you'd do first and what you'd automate

• Challenge discussion (60 min)

• Bar Raiser interview (45 min)