<h2><strong>Your Impact</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Every founder has a list of (strategic) initiatives with tremendous potential that lack time to be realized and belong to no one yet. As a Founders Associate, that list is your job. You'll be the right hand to C-level and founders - taking the hardest, highest-leverage, cross-functional initiatives off their plate and driving them to done, with real ownership from day one and access almost no one else in the company has.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We hire for the person first, then match you to one of two tracks:</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Track 1 - Generalist</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the most important company-wide initiatives directly with our CEO. Whatever stands between Tacto and its next growth phase that quarter, you take it and drive it to done.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build new bets from 0 to 1: new product wedges, growth loops, and ideas that could become standalone engines inside Tacto</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Operate as a "founder within the company," moving from strategy to hands-on execution and back</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Go where the leverage is: one month it's org and hiring, the next a product wedge or a new market</p></li></ul><h2><strong>Track 2 - Go-to-Market</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Analyze new markets, industries, and segments, and build the business cases and go-to-market plans to enter them.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Identify our next growth opportunities, e.g. new modules or motions, and turn them into concrete execution plans.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Support the executive team directly: prepare and run C-level meetings with our most important customers, and own the analyses behind them.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help our revenue leadership reshape the GTM engine and make Tacto the best go-to-market organization in Europe</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Your Profile</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Smart, driven, and hungry to build - you get energy from moving fast and seeing results</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You think strategically but don’t shy away from hands-on execution</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You've seen what "great" looks like - through a role or internship at a top-tier startup, in consulting, or VC</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Extreme ownership: you build the roadmap, find solutions, and don't wait for permission</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You've built something from zero before - and we could see ourselves backing you if you started your own company one day</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ego-free overachiever who makes everyone around them better</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fluent in German and