Founders Associate jobs at European startups

A Founders Associate works directly alongside a startup's founders on whatever matters most that quarter: fundraising, hiring, ops, analysis. It is the classic operator-track entry role for sharp business-background graduates, usually within the first three years of a career.

uptayn lists live Founders Associate roles at venture-backed European startups and the companies their investors fund, refreshed nightly. Sign up free to see every match scored against your CV.

Many Founders Associate roles are posted only on company applicant-tracking pages (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Personio), not LinkedIn. uptayn scrapes those boards every night so you see them in one filterable feed.

It depends heavily on company stage, country and seniority, so we don't quote a single figure. Where a posting states a salary range, uptayn shows it on the job; sign up free to see pay where companies disclose it.

Both. Many European startups hire Founders Associates on-site or hybrid in their home city, while some are fully remote. You can filter the feed by location and remote preference once you've built your profile.

Upload your CV once and every live Founders Associate role gets a personalised fit-score, an honest "skip this one" when the match isn't there, and a draft outreach you can actually send, so you apply to the few that fit, not the many.