Founder's Associate (f/m/x)

Become part of Tanso and decarbonize industries with us.

What if the impact of your role extended beyond a job title?

Not through marketing spin. Not through vague "purpose-driven" messaging. But through software that helps industrial companies understand, manage and actively reduce their environmental impact.

That's what Tanso is building. And it's one of the reasons people join us.

Why Tanso?

• Take Action in a Fast-Moving, High-Impact Environment. We move fast on sustainability because the urgency is real. That means decisions that matter, transparent processes, and the agility to navigate change.
• Challenge & Grow Through Ownership. Take ownership immediately, build expertise through hands-on experience, and leverage every available resource to achieve outsized impact.
• Foster Trust with Mission-Driven Collaborators. You'll join a team that prioritizes impact and each other. We give honest feedback, share credit, support each other when it matters, and hold high standards together.
• Embrace Responsibility & Drive Impact. Turn fragmented emissions data into actionable insights. Your work has immediate, visible impact - clearer decision-making and genuine momentum toward change.
• AI First-Mindset. We embrace cutting-edge technology to solve sustainability challenges. Push the boundaries of innovation and stay ahead of what's possible.
• Commitment to Performance & Excellence. We cultivate a high-performance culture where you thrive. Push yourself and others to excel, celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and raise the bar.

Your role

To drive forward our entrepreneurial initiatives with speed and decisiveness, we are looking for a Founder's Associate (f/m/x). Tanso prides itself on moving fast once opportunities arise or the need to act becomes clear. Some of these opportunities take action where there is no owner yet; they’re too new, too cross-functional, or simply too urgent to wait for the right team to have capacity. That's where you come in.

As a Founder's Associate, you'll join a small team working directly with our Chief of Staff Cedric, CEO Till and management team on the things that shape the future of the company. You'll be deployed where the leverage is highest: launching a new module, building the business case that decides whether we enter a new market, organizing the next offsite or closing the next financing round. We've done this before. We're now building a team that can do that repeatedly.

This is a fast-paced, entrepreneurial role for candidates who take initiative and get things done. The reward is unusual exposure: you'll sit in the rooms where decisions are made, and you'll be judged on whether the thing you owned actually worked and brought the business forward.

Where this leads: the role is designed as a launchpad. After around 12-18 months, you will move into either a lead role in a topical business function or a strategic role such as Chief of Staff – depending on where you have shown the most traction and where the company needs you.

Key responsibilities

• Own high-priority projects end-to-end from 0 to 1: from scoping and analysis to stakeholder coordination and delivery.
• Mobilise energy behind new product and market initiatives: bring the aggression and speed a zero-to-one launch needs, then hand over cleanly to the teams who run it long-term.
• Build the analytical foundations for decisions that matter: business cases, market and competitor deep-dives, pricing analyses, and investor reporting inputs.
• Drive enablement and automation across teams: find the repetitive work, build the automation, get people to actually adopt it.
• Do the unglamorous parts too. Clean the messy dataset. Chase the missing investor response for a board meeting. Fill out a grant application. Rebuild the deck late at night because the numbers changed.

Your profile

• You have 1+ years of experience in a fast paced environment such (e.g. startup, consulting, VC, IB…) or an outstanding track record that proves the same.
• Your academic and extracurricular activities demonstrate your ambition and willingness to take ownership.
• You think and act like a founder: you take ownership without being asked, you unblock yourself, and you finish what you start.
• You turn ambiguous, badly defined problems into a clear plan and a set of next steps – and then you execute the plan yourself.
• You're strong with numbers and structure. A business case, a cohort analysis, or a pricing model doesn't intimidate you.
• You're genuinely tech-savvy. You use AI tools daily, you can vibecode a prototype, and you're comfortable in adopting new tools.
• You communicate clearly and can hold your own with our management team.
• You bring practical interest in sustainability and regulation – enough to get up to speed on a new EU regulation fast and hold a credible conversation about it.
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills in German and English.
• You get excited by the idea of growing a startup into a successful scale up.

What we offer

• A highly competitive compensation package with an attractive equity package to participate in Tanso's growth.
• Hybrid working model that combines the benefits of onsite collaboration with the flexibility needed.
• A company-contributed pension plan to support long-term financial security.
• Yearly budget to support ongoing professional development.
• Sponsored access to EGYM Wellpass to prioritize your wellbeing with thousands of options.
• Exclusive discounts that help you save on a wide range of everyday brands, services, and experiences.

Our team

We're a diverse group of people, and that diversity is what makes us great. We bring unique perspectives to everything we do and are always eager to learn from each other. We work in cross-functional teams to tackle ambitious challenges, actively seek feedback and be the best versions of ourselves.

About us

Tanso is an integrated sustainability software for carbon accounting and ESG data management. Our goal is to help manufacturing companies meet regulatory requirements and achieve their sustainability objectives.