Founder's Associate (f/m/d)

lemon.markets

ABOUT LEMON.MARKETS 🍋 We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers. lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months. As part of the dwpbank group, we’re adding a layer of resources and expertise to benefit from, while continuing to operate as an independent fintech with our own team, product, and start-up identity under the dwpbank umbrella. YOUR MISSION: As a Founder’s Associate Intern, you will support the leadership team here at lemon.markets, making sure the business grows & runs smoothly, ensuring alignment across all business areas. You will work on a selection of diverse projects ranging from Strategy & Operations, to Business Development & Go-to-Market. These projects are hard to forecast and will highly depend on needs evolving from the phase lemon.markets is in, as well as hugely on your interests and the skill set you already bring along. You’ll get the best of both worlds: Experience first-hand how an early-stage start-up is being built, enjoy & benefit from a fast-paced and flexible environment, while working closely with experienced experts in their field. That means you will not only support and leverage your skill set, but learn & grow by taking on projects with a high degree of ownership. YOU WILL: * Support the leadership team on strategic projects: Help develop business strategies & execute on them, making sure we stay aligned with our company goals & objectives. * Further, define & develop our GTM strategy: Continuously research and analyse market trends, conduct competitor activities, and stay up to date with the changing Brokerage landscape in Europe. * Drive various strategic initiatives to help us prepare for our growth post launch, ramping up business operations and ensuring operational excellence. * Critically question, analyse and improve existing processes. Constantly aim to improve our existing setup, build world-class processes around it, that enable us to have a smoothly running organisation. WHO ARE YOU: * You have a background in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Computer science or a similar area. * You are an entrepreneurial problem solver. You strive to take ownership of the tasks you get and apply your analytical skills, structured thinking, and independent working style towards solving them. * You have gained hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment. You understand what working in a startup or a similar lean organisation is like. Ideally, you have worked in an early-stage startup, fintech, consulting, tech company or similar. * You are ready and willing to take ownership. “This is not my job!” is not part of your vocabulary - you identify problems, take initiative to take them on, and challenge the status quo. * You cope well with frequent change and ambiguity. Changing tasks & requirements excite you. You are able to think logically, break down complex problems and prioritise between multiple tasks on your table. * You have a hands-on mentality. You default into action, want to gather first learnings fast, and iterate on the progress along the way. * You are a team player. Working together as a team and sharing knowledge comes naturally to you. * You have no problem with learning new tools and skills on the go. You try to solve problems with more things than the ones you already know. We will always enable you with that, but your willingness has to come first. How we take care of you: * 🚀 Compensation package: Our Interns are compensated at a fixed rate of €2,425 per month. * 💎 Make a real impact: Our start-up environment gives you the room to start your career, explore areas outside your role, and build expertise through ownership. As we mature and are backed by dwpbank, we’re adding a layer of resources and expertise you are benefiting from. * 🕑 Flexible working hours: We trust people to choose when they work best and avoid a rigid 9 to 5 mindset. You decide on the rhythm that helps you do your best work, with only shared core hours from 12:00 to 16:00 to support collaboration. * 🏢 Hybrid work setup: You can work from Berlin within a hybrid model. However, we strongly encourage our internship “lemoneers” to spend at least 3 days or more per week in the office. Being on-site allows you to learn faster, provides a more immersive experience, helps you collaborate more effectively with the team, and ensures you fully benefit from hands-on support. * 📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously! You’ll get regular mentorship and stretch opportunities, plus a clear career development framework with frequent feedback conversations so you always know where you stand, and what to do to level up. * 🌱 People & culture: You’ll feel our culture in the small things, like polaroids from our lemoneers’ first day, Friday food market strolls at Maybachufer, and our monthly new-joiner breakfast. But also in the bigger things: celebrating the onboarding of new partners, growing our teams, and owning a strong discussion culture. * 🏝 Workation: Get out of here! At lemon.markets you can work remotely from anywhere in the EU for up to 10 consecutive days at a time, and up to 60 days per year in total. As an equal opportunity employer, lemon.markets is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company welcomes people from all different backgrounds, including age, citizenship, ethnic and racial origins, gender identities, individuals with disabilities, marital status, religions and ideologies, and sexual orientations to apply. If you feel this role could be a great match for you even if you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you, please apply. You have any questions? Feel free to contact us via talent@lemon.markets.com

VARM

DEINE MISSION * You build and run the Founders Office as a trusted partner to the founders, taking full ownership of company-wide projects * You take ownership not just of projects, but of how the company runs: cross-functional initiatives, founder priorities, and the connective tissue between teams * You're as comfortable designing a process as you are personally executing it, scaling your own role out of existence as the company grows DEIN PROFIL * You bring 2–4 years of experience in a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment, consulting, investment banking, or VC – for example as a Strategy Consultant, Management Consultant, Investment Banking Analyst/Associate, VC Analyst/Associate, Founder's Associate, Business Analyst, Business Operations Manager, or Project Manager * Alternatively, you bring at least 2 years of experience as a Founder, Co-Founder, or Managing Director of your own company – whether it scaled, exited, or taught you hard lessons * A genuine founder mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, biased toward action, and energized by 0-to-1 problems * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with a proactive, hands-on mindset * You communicate fluently in both English and German, written and verbal, and can convey complex ideas concisely to different audiences * You thrive in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment and are a self-starter with a high sense of ownership and the ability to work independently * Genuine interest in contributing to our goal of energy-efficient buildings and a sustainable future This role is ideal for you if... * you've founded or built something before (officially or unofficially) and want to build again – this time with more tailwind * you'd rather launch a new project from scratch than manage an existing one * you see ambiguity as room to create, not as a problem * you're coming from a role as Founder, Venture Architect, Venture Builder, Innovation Manager, or Business Development Manager – and this is your playground WARUM WIR? Join one of Europe’s fastest growing climate companies, fresh off a €17.5M Series A! Our Benefits: * Competitive compensation package: We will offer you a mix of cash and stock options based on your appetite for upside * Be part of our core-team, building in a super-hot phase of an early-stage climate-tech startup * Make an impact at VARM: Shape our culture and the way we work and collaborate together. Nothing is set in stone – you have a direct impact, while we are growing and building together * Make an impact on the earth: Do you want to make a difference in the fight against climate change? Become part of the solution and actively shape the energy transition * Onsite first, but hybrid work keeps us flexible: We believe that in-person collaboration is an integral part of working together, but offer flexibility for remote working * Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously, which includes being mentored and challenged in regular founder feedback sessions * Start–up culture: We offer you hybrid work, training, team events, and a great office setup in the heart of Kreuzberg * Discounted fitness programs * Diversity & Inclusion: We value diversity and welcome people from all backgrounds

VARM

DEINE MISSION * You get the chance to build: validate and prototype new initiatives, products, or business lines inside VARM, with real ownership from day one * You operate with founder-level autonomy – defining problems, testing hypotheses, and deciding what's worth scaling – while drawing on VARM's resources, data, and network * You work closely with the CEO and founding team, translating ambiguous opportunities into structured projects with clear outcomes DEIN PROFIL * You bring 2–4 years of experience in a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment, consulting, investment banking, or VC – for example as a Strategy Consultant, Management Consultant, Investment Banking Analyst/Associate, VC Analyst/Associate, Founder's Associate, Business Analyst, Business Operations Manager, or Project Manager * Alternatively, you bring at least 2 years of experience as a Founder, Co-Founder, or Managing Director of your own company – whether it scaled, exited, or taught you hard lessons * You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with a proactive, hands-on mindset * You communicate fluently in both English and German, written and verbal, and can convey complex ideas concisely to different audiences * You thrive in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment and are a self-starter with a high sense of ownership, strong work ethic, entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to work independently * You are passionate about contributing to our goal of energy-efficient buildings and a sustainable future This role is ideal for you if... you've founded or built something before (officially or unofficially) and want to build again – this time with more tailwind you'd rather launch a new project from scratch than manage an existing one you see ambiguity as room to create, not as a problem you're coming from a role as Founder, Venture Architect, Venture Builder, Innovation Manager, or Business Development Manager – and this is your playground WARUM WIR? Join one of Europe’s fastest growing climate companies, fresh off a €17.5M Series A! Our Benefits: * Competitive compensation package: We will offer you a mix of cash and stock options based on your appetite for upside * Be part of our core-team, building in a super-hot phase of an early-stage climate-tech startup * Make an impact at VARM: Shape our culture and the way we work and collaborate together. Nothing is set in stone – you have a direct impact, while we are growing and building together * Make an impact on the earth: Do you want to make a difference in the fight against climate change? Become part of the solution and actively shape the energy transition * Onsite first, but hybrid work keeps us flexible: We believe that in-person collaboration is an integral part of working together, but offer flexibility for remote working * Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously, which includes being mentored and challenged in regular founder feedback sessions * Start–up culture: We offer you hybrid work, training, team events, and a great office setup in the heart of Kreuzberg * Discounted fitness programs * Diversity & Inclusion: We value diversity and welcome people from all backgrounds