CTO Cofounder
Founders Factory is a venture studio, accelerator, and investment platform that builds and funds early-stage startups. It supports founders with capital, operational expertise, corporate partnerships, and access to a global network.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
About Founders Factory
Founders Factory partners with entrepreneurs and leading companies to co-found new ventures, accelerate startups, and invest in early-stage businesses. Its activities include venture building, cohort-based accelerator programs, sector-focused investment funds, operational support, and corporate innovation partnerships across fintech, health, industrials, deep tech, and climate. It serves ambitious founders, corporate partners, and early-stage technology startups.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own product and technology during the early stage. You will define critical workflows with users and build the first usable product. You will develop the Nua Score and create resilient data and system architecture across external sources. You will make pragmatic product and automation decisions, work directly with early customers and partners, and later build a small product and engineering function. In the first months, you will build the product yourself.
Requirements
- Ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into clear, testable product approaches and build them
- Experience with data-heavy platforms, scoring systems or comparison systems
- Knowledge of failure modes, data-quality issues and validation decisions
- Strong backend and data-architecture skills
- Ability to build and ship early frontend product versions
- Experience building transparent, credible B2B systems for risk-sensitive enterprise customers
- Previous founder, early technical startup hire or comparable ownership experience
- Business-fluent German
- Professional English
- Experience in the DACH market
Responsibilities
- Define critical workflows with users and build the first usable product
- Develop the Nua Score
- Build robust data and system architecture across multiple external data sources
- Decide what to build, defer, automate or exclude from the product
- Work directly with early customers and partners
- Build a small product and engineering team over time
