Founders Associate (m/f/d) - Sun Matters, Berlin
About Sun Matters
Sun Matters is a venture-backed consumer brand at the intersection of health and skincare. We’re rethinking what really matters in everyday skincare routines, starting with one simple mission: making daily sun protection as intuitive as brushing your teeth. Our microbiome-friendly certified sunscreen is made for everyday use, not just for the beach, and that’s exactly the habit we want to change.
We’re already live in 800+ retail stores across 15 countries, working with retailers like Douglas, Nocibé, KaDeWe and Niche Beauty. As a lean team moving fast, there’s still plenty to build and quite a few things we’re doing manually that really shouldn’t be.
Your role
As our Founders Associate, you’ll work directly with the founder and take ownership of whatever matters most to the company at any given moment. Some weeks that means preparing a pitch for a new retailer, other weeks it means fixing a broken process with our fulfillment partner or pulling together the numbers for an investor update. What matters to us is that you take things on independently, see them through and look for the smartest way to get them done.
- You drive strategic projects end to end, from entering a new market or retailer to launching new products or setting up new processes
- You optimize our supply chain and operations, from working with our fulfillment partner on B2B orders, returns and customs to finding where we lose time or money and fixing it
- You support our performance marketing on Meta and Google, from testing creatives to tracking what actually drives sales
- You keep track of company OKRs and KPIs, prepare investor updates and board materials, and support fundraising and business cases
- You take on whatever lands on the founders’ desk that needs someone to run with it, from hiring to finance to events
Across all of this, you should be thinking and doing everything AI-first. If something can be automated or done faster with AI, we expect you to build that, using n8n, Claude Code or whatever else fits the job.
Your profile
- You have around one year of full-time experience, ideally in a startup, consulting, VC or another fast-moving environment
- You’re AI-native: you already use tools like Claude, n8n or Cursor in your daily work and have built your own automations or tools, whether at work or as a side project
- You’re structured and analytical, but just as comfortable on a call with a retailer as you are in a spreadsheet
- You don’t wait to be told what to do and enjoy taking ownership of things nobody has figured out yet
- You’re fluent in English and German (at least C1), since a lot of our partner communication happens in German
- Experience in consumer goods, beauty or retail is a plus, but not a requirement. What matters more is how fast you learn and how you approach problems
What we offer
- You’ll work directly with the founders and see every part of the business, from product and retail to marketing, operations and fundraising
- You’ll get real ownership from day one, with short decision paths and no layers in between. You’ll join at a stage where your work directly shapes how fast we grow
- A competitive salary plus VSOP
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A great office in Berlin Mitte overlooking the Spree, with one home office day per week
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Start: ideally January 2027 · Full-time · Location: Berlin
