Founder's Associate

Job description

About Comena Comena builds AI agents for industrial distributors and manufacturers to automate their order processing from e-mail inbox to ERP. At distributors across the US and Germany alone, there are 4 million sales and procurement people stuck in manual workflows between inbox and ERP. We want to automate this work and liberate these people to work on more meaningful things. We’re part of the YC S25 batch - the most selective batch in YC history. We recently raised a seed round from top Silicon Valley investors and are serving customers across US and Germany. About the role We’re looking for a Founder's Associate to work directly with the founders on the highest-priority projects in the company. This is an early-career, high-ownership role for someone who wants to start their own company one day and wants a front-row seat to building an AI startup from the inside first. This role is for generalists who want to learn how a startup actually gets built. Your initial focus will be split roughly equally across three areas: marketing, hiring, and founder projects. This means helping get Comena in front of the right industrial companies, finding and closing great people to join the team, and supporting the founders with sales and other high-priority projects. Over time, you'll take ownership of whatever the company needs most, from special projects to building out entire functions. What you’ll do Plan and run marketing campaigns across LinkedIn, email, website, trade shows, and events Create content: founder posts, customer stories, case studies, newsletters, and landing pages Turn customer conversations and product launches into stories that generate pipeline Build sales assets: decks, one-pagers, ROI materials, and support live deals Own our hiring funnel: source candidates, run outreach, screen, and coordinate interviews Build and use AI systems across marketing, sales, recruiting, and internal operations Collaborate with designers to create compelling marketing materials Test new channels, formats, and messaging - and measure what actually moves pipeline and hires Work directly with the founders on whatever matters most that week What we’re looking for Excellent writing and communication skills in English and German High ownership and low ego Good judgment, taste, attention to detail, and follow-through Comfort operating in ambiguity and moving quickly Wan…