As our Leadership Associate, you will have a unique role along the entire range from hands-on operations to high-level leadership decisions: You'll be a strategic right hand to our leadership team (especially our Co-Founder Sebastian), while simultaneously ensuring our Munich office remains a highly productive environment for our Luminerds.

You don't just keep things running — you elevate them to the next level. 🚀

• You are a "productivity geek" who loves organizing and optimizing.

• You are proactive; seeing a problem and solving it before anyone else notices.

• You are looking for a steep learning curve with direct exposure to our Founders and leadership team.

• You have high emotional intelligence, allowing you to communicate effectively and contributing to our culture around psychological safety and direct feedback.

• You enjoy being the "backbone" of a team while having the ambition to learn how to run and scale a tech startup.

🤓 Whom you'll be working with

• Sebastian – our Co-Founder & Managing Director. → One of the two Founders, leading the Revenue & Operations functions at Luminovo.

• Benedikt – our VP Operations. → He leads our Finance and Legal teams directly, and oversees our People team.

• Hannah – our People Lead → She’s in charge of Luminovo’s People function, incl. labor law topics, company retreats, compensation strategy, and performance management.

• Naima – our Legal Counsel and Business Operations Associate. → she is in charge for all legal matters and supports Benedikt.

🎯 Performance objectives

1. Leadership Support & Executive Assistance

Multiply the impact of our leadership team.

• Founder Operations: Become Sebastian’s "gatekeeper" and facilitator. Manage his inbox, draft responses, and rigorously prioritize his calendar to ensure he focuses on high-impact tasks.

• Manager Enablement: Support our managers in their role and be their right hand for executing tasks.

• Culture. Be proactive, solve problems independently, and approach your tasks and projects with a hands-on attitude. Be a role model for our operating principles to amplify our unique team culture.

2. Office & Operations Excellence

Create an environment where Luminerds can do their best work.

• Office Management: Ownership of our Munich hub. This includes supply management, handling package deliveries, and being the go-to person for local infrastructure.

• Travel & Logistics: Manage the "travel desk" (flights, trains, hotels, visas) for the team and leadership.

• Events & Culture: Organize internal workshops, customer visits, and legendary team retreats.

3. Special Projects & Growth

Identify bottlenecks in our daily operations (e.g., onboarding, inventory) and build scalable solutions and Support various departments (Legal, People, Finance) with high-priority tasks as they arise (eg. scout new offices e.g. in Berlin or New York).

⚡ Skills, knowledge, and expertise

We purposefully don't have a standard list of requirements. We care about your drive, your organizational talent, and your ability to get things done.

However, for this specific role. there are three "must-haves" to successfully create impact:

1. 🇩🇪 Native/fluent in German: You will communicate with German authorities, customers, talent, and other local stakeholders.

2. 🇬🇧 Strong English-skills: Our company language is English, and our team is international.

3. 🚗 Driver’s License (Klasse B)

⚡️ About Luminovo

Luminovo is the first electronics supply chain platform that unites all data, processes, and stakeholders in the trillion-dollar electronics industry.

We fundamentally believe that technology is the best tool that humankind has developed to tackle the biggest challenges we face as a society today. And we want to do our share in accelerating technological progress.

We bring innovations to life faster and cheaper by creating a more connected and resilient electronics supply chain.

To date, over 300 active customers worldwide are working with us towards this shared goal. Supported by leading investors such as Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst/LaFamiglia, Chalfen Ventures, and others, we have raised more than €20 million.

Our core principles: putting people first & building great things

As a remote-first company headquartered in Munich, our brilliant team is spread across cities including Munich, New York, Austin, Calgary, Berlin, London, Valencia, Nairobi, and Verona, among others. 🌍

Our team includes a mix of product enthusiasts, people advocates, business masterminds, and engineering experts. Among us are graduates from institutions like Stanford University and the University of Cambridge, as well as talented individuals with unconventional CVs. What matters most is their drive to build great things.

We provide an authentic environment based on psychological safety to empower Luminerds from various backgrounds to succeed, grow, and focus on impact. Putting people first means that we deeply care about who our employees are, what makes them unique, and what they excel at.

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