Founder’s Associate

Frankfurt am Main +4 · On-site$24k – $36k + Equity

About this role

Gasolina Nutrition is hiring a Berlin-based Founder’s Associate to be the first full-time, high-impact hire supporting the founder across brand, product, and go-to-market. This generalist role matters because it helps shape the product, culture, and growth in the Germany-first launch.

What you'll do

  • Ramp up quickly to support the founder across operations, brand, and product tasks.
  • Own go-to-market activities focused on Germany.
  • Contribute to brand building, product taste, style, and positioning.
  • Coordinate and scale the small team (werkstudent, incoming intern, fractional head of performance).
  • Execute day-to-day operational needs and ad-hoc projects with high autonomy.
  • Help define early customer experiences and feedback loops for consumer products.
  • Work on-site in Berlin and collaborate closely with the founder and contractors.

What Gasolina Nutrition is looking for

  • Generalist with strong drive and the ability to learn quickly across domains.
  • Genuine affinity for brand building and consumer products; not a pure SaaS/analytics profile.
  • Demonstrated taste, style, and feel for what makes a cool product and brand.
  • German-speaking — Deutsch sprechen is a hard filter (Germany-first go-to-market).
  • Berlin-based and available to work on-site.
  • University-quality signal is helpful but not required; targets include WHU, HSG, TUM, Mannheim, LSE, LBS, UCL, Erasmus, Frankfurt School, Maastricht, HHL, Nova.
  • Compensation: €24–36k + 5% ESOP, with a possible co-founder path for the right candidate.

Company at a glance

Gasolina is a bootstrapped startup pursuing a diversified wellbeing and longevity food & beverage portfolio, backed by €300k family funding with runway to March 2027 and targeting UHNW private-capital rounds; it runs a lean team with a German-language focus.

IndustryFood and Beverage Manufacturing
WorkspaceOn-site
Locations
Adickesallee 32-34, 60322 Frankfurt am Main-Innenstadt III, Germany ·NL, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, Netherlands ·Mannheim, Germany ·Berlin, Germany ·Maastricht, Netherlands ·Germany

Top Benefits

  • Fractional head of performance marketing (10 hrs/week, minimal cash, equity-compensated)

What happens next

Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

A meeting lands on your calendar

When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.

Culture & values

Current team includes a Werkstudent (20 hrs/week), an intern joining for 6 months full-time, and a fractional head of performance marketing who is equity-compensated with minimal cash; the founder runs everything else, indicating a lean, founder-led structure.

Deutsch sprechen is a hard filter for joining the team, signaling a selective, language-based cultural requirement.

The company operates with a lean, bootstrapped, self-funded setup with a focus on sustainable runway, suggesting a frugal, growth-minded culture.

Elias provides weekly shortlists as part of collaboration, indicating systematic, cadence-driven teamwork and structured hiring support.

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