01N_006 🇪🇺 High-bar jobs for future European founders at Black Forest Labs, Sword, Poolside, PeecAI…
Opportunities at the highest talent-dense startups for ambitious people and future founders in Europe.
Covering so far: 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 - Coming next month: Nordics.
Curated by Roberto Gómez
-1 → 0: Ideas, stealth startups & cofounder searches
🇵🇹 Henrik, cofounder of AirHelp and ROOM, is working from Portugal in prefab homes to bring people closer to nature again. The company is still in stealth mode but they will look for early profiles soon. Contact them directly.
🇪🇸 Juan, ex Google and MIT, is building the next generation of fitness apps and they are looking for a founding software engineer. Apply and learn more here.
0 → 1: Founding team opportunities and roles at early companies
🇩🇪 Peec AI helps companies understand how they rank on ChatGPT. They grew to 4M ARR in 10 months and just raised €18M, only 4 months after their €7M seed round led by 20VC. They grew so fast that they are still hiring some founding team roles such as the first People Ops and first FP&A. They also have some interesting positions for future founders such as PM, visiting Founders Associate and Growth Generalist.
🇫🇷 🇬🇧 Poolside is building AI Agents for Enterprise and is looking for a Founding FDRE (Remote available). NVIDIA is reportedly investing $1Bn in the company at a $12Bn valuation.
🇩🇪 Praxipal, AI workforce for medical front desks, just raised a $6,7M seed with HV Capital and they are looking for a founding Account Executive and an FDE. Learn more here and apply here.
🇬🇧 Condukt, a next-gen compliance platform for financial services built by ex-Revolut and Square founders, raised $10M from Lightspeed and is looking for a Chief of Staff with GTM focus and an FDE.
🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Florian from Speedinvest is helping two early portfolio companies hiring a Founders Associate / Chief of Staff based in Berlin, London and remotely. Apply here.
🇩🇪 Jamie, a bootstrapped AI notetaker and meeting assistant, is looking for their first sales hire to do full-cycle sales and move from inbound to outbound.
1 → n: Roles at scaling and more consolidated companies
🇵🇹 Sword Health, a unicorn from Portugal with more than $400M raised in several rounds, with General Catalyst, Khosla etc., for his AI Patient Care platform (Muscle, pelvic, joint, movement…) has created an Entrepreneur in Residence program and is looking for former founders, 0 to 1 operators and ex-VCs. Learn more here and DM the CEO directly.
🇬🇧 Nevis, an AI wealth management platform built by ex-Revolut founders just raised $40M from Sequoia and is looking for a Product Owner and an Operations Manager.
🇩🇪 Black Forest Labs, a leading visual AI intelligence lab from Freiburg just raised $300M at a valuation of $2.25Bn and they are hiring all across the board, with multiple FDEs, bizops and growth positions, among others.
🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇵🇹 Huspy, a Proptech from UAE, but with focus in Spain and other countries in Europe since 2022 and investors such as Sequoia, Balderton and Founders Fund is looking for several Product Owners for Spain and other countries such as Portugal, Italy, UK, Poland, Netherlands (remotely) etc to help streamline the home buying process.
🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇵🇹 HappyRobot is hiring deployment strategist (a role very similar to Product) to work directly with clients and FDEs (already posted these cool opportunities in previous newsletters) creating the new company products. A rocketship company that started building AI voice agents for Transportation (Now AI OS for the real economy) backed by top-tier funds such as a16z.
🇬🇧 Dexory, Ai robotics for warehousing/logistics, just raised $165M from investors such as Atomico and are looking for a Chief of Staff to work with the whole executive team.
🇪🇸 Revel (B2C car renting) is hiring a Strategy & operations manager to lead some strategic initiatives within the company. They just raised €115M 2 years ago (100M debt, 15M equity) and the team comes from startup studio Neboola, who has sold 2 startups before.
🇩🇪 Langdock, company AI workspace, just hit $12M ARR, is backed by YC and General Catalyst and is looking for a couple interesting business roles that require technical depth: AI adoption manager and AI associate.
🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 Revolut is looking for Entrepreneurs in Residence to work on new projects and own the entire journey, from business strategy and product development, to GTM planning and execution. A role aimed at ex-founders who raised VC money. The company was recently valued at $75B.
🇩🇪 Bees & Bears, B2C financing for renewable energy installations, just raised €500M and the founders are looking for a Founder’s associate intern to help them on everything from special projects, VC relations, product conceptualization etc. Apply here
🇸🇪 (sneak peek of what’s coming next month) Lovable, fastest company in history to reach $200M ARR is hiring an Enterprise Hackathons Director. A pretty good experience to combine marketing and product knowledge and gain first hand experience of the current tech needs of many big companies across Europe. Apply here.
Venture Capital:
🇬🇧 Hummingbird is opening up its two year analyst program. Deadline January 5, program starts in July 2026.
Interesting European tech ecosystem reads:
Why starting a company from a small country in Europe is an advantage Link
I often talk about this and I think it is one of the reasons why countries like Spain and Italy lack more global companies.
EU on getting rid of the constant cookie acceptance Link
It was about time! I support to stop doing things that are nonsense.
How ElevenLabs FDEs work with clients Link
In this case ElevenLabs founder highlights how they want to create an agentic government in Ukraine and how FDEs will work directly with the ukranian team to create and deploy the new agents. Such a cool project to be involved! It reminds me of projects we used to do at McKinsey, but now with direct tech capabilities.
Lovable designer on today’s importance of having a founding designer
