Founder's Associate - Growth (Berlin, hybrid)

Kittl
Kittl

Sales & Business Development

Berlin, Germany

Posted on Nov 10, 2026
Your role at Kittl 🥁 As our Founders Associate for Growth, you’ll take over and scale Kittl’s influencer partnerships. We’ve worked with 1,000+ influencers, and they’re one of our biggest acquisition channels for print-on-demand sellers and small product businesses. Your job is to automate, scale and build it out into a channel that delivers growth. From there, you can expand into affiliates, business partnerships or other roles in the growth org. We need someone hungry who moves fast, wants to build, has negotiated and closed deals before, and is AI-native. This role is based in Berlin and reports to our Head of Growth, working closely with the CEO and leadership. What you'll do 📋 Run and scale influencer and creator partnerships: Own our influencer and creator programme day to day and grow the subscriptions it brings in Automate it: Turn sourcing, outreach, onboarding and reporting into AI workflows, so the channel scales without a bigger team Sign the right influencers: Find, pitch and close the influencers our sellers listen to, and move budget to the ones that convert Build it out as an acquisition channel: Make it measurable and forecastable, with clear reporting on spend against subscriptions Expand: Grow into affiliates and business partnerships with the platforms, tools and communities our sellers already use What you'll need ✅ Growth you owned: 3–4 years in a startup or scale-up, in a growth, partnerships, sales, founders associate or BizOps role, where you moved a number yourself Influencer marketing or sales: You've built pipelines and negotiated and closed deals yourself, with creators, partners or customers, and can show the numbers Problem-solver: You take an unclear problem, work it out from the data and explain your reasoning AI-native builder: You've built things that changed how work gets done. You know to avoid AI slop. Proactive and creative: You say "this happened, so I solved it" rather than "what should I do?", and you try angles others haven't Hungry: You'd rather build the pipeline and close than write the strategy and wait for someone else to do it Nice to have 👌 Experience in both influencer marketing and sales, or with affiliate programmes E-commerce, print-on-demand or creator-economy background Interview process 🔍 Intro call with your recruiter (30 min) Interview with the hiring manager (30 min) Take-home challenge: a real problem from our influencer programme: how you'd work it out, what you'd do first and what you'd automate Challenge discussion (60 min) Bar Raiser interview (30 min)