Freelance Venture Builder – AgriFood

Are you passionate about the future of food, agri-tech, and ingredient innovation? Do you enjoy taking an early idea and turning it into a tested venture concept, working hands-on from research through to validation?

We are looking for a Freelance Venture Builder to join our Amsterdam based AgriFood venture building domain. You will work on venture building and innovation projects for global corporate clients in the food ingredients space, across business units such as animal nutrition, food solutions, cocoa and chocolate, and protein.

As Venture Builder, you will be a hands-on member of the project team, working alongside project leads, designers, and technical specialists. You will own your work streams within the project and carry out the research, analysis, and validation work that takes a venture from first concept to a tested business case.

What You Will Do

• AgriFood Market & Opportunity Research: Analyze market trends, competitive landscapes, emerging technologies, and shifts across food and ingredient value chains. Turn desk research, portfolio analysis, and competitor analysis into clear opportunity areas for the team to pursue.

• Customer Discovery: Plan and run qualitative and quantitative research with customers and value chain stakeholders to understand their problems, needs, and buying behavior.

• Venture Design & Validation: Develop new venture concepts for prioritized problems, map key assumptions, and define success metrics. Design and run experiments to test desirability, feasibility, and viability, then draw clear conclusions and recommend next steps.

• Business Cases & Financial Modeling: Build business cases and financial models in Excel, including P&L projections, and size opportunities based on strategic fit and feasibility.

• Hands-on Facilitation & Content: Prepare and co-facilitate kick-offs, ideation sprints, discovery workshops, and customer validation sessions. Produce clear presentations, frameworks, and briefs for the project team and client stakeholders.

• Travel: Occasional travel to client offices in Europe, depending on project needs.

What We Are Looking For

We are seeking a hands-on builder who combines an understanding of food and ingredients with fast-paced, creative execution:

• Passion for AgriFood: A strong interest in the food sector is essential. You follow food-system trends, have your own views on ingredient innovation, and understand how technical R&D and production value chains work.

• Agency / Consulting / Startup Experience: 4–7 years of experience in a strategy consulting firm, innovation agency, corporate venture builder, or startup environment. (candidates coming solely from corporate food company R&D roles without agency, consulting, or startup experience will not fit this profile.)

• Methodology Fluency: Hands-on experience applying innovation frameworks (Venture Building, Jobs-to-be-Done, Customer Discovery, Desirability/Viability/Feasibility Validation, Lean Startup, Design Thinking) on real projects, ideally including at least one new product, service, or venture taken from idea through to validation.

• Analytical & Quantitative Skills: You are comfortable with desk research, data analysis, and Excel modeling. You can work through a P&L, build a business case, and turn complex information into clear recommendations.

• Strong Written Execution: You produce clear, well-structured presentations, research summaries, and briefs that the project team and client can use directly.

• Team Player: You work well in cross-functional project teams, take ownership of your workstream, and are confident engaging with client stakeholders in workshops, interviews, and review sessions.

• Languages: Professional business English is mandatory; Dutch is advantageous.

• Nice to Have: Founder or entrepreneurial experience in food (even a past venture that failed), a technical background in food science, agronomy, or animal nutrition, or formal facilitation training.

What We Offer

• Hands-on Venture Work: Live AgriFood venture building projects for global food and ingredient companies, from early research through to tested concepts.

• World-Class Innovation Ecosystem: Access to deep global venture-building capabilities, methodology tools, and experienced delivery teams.

• Flexible Freelance Setup: Project-based work in a hybrid, flexible setup within a fast-moving international team that prioritizes growth and creativity.

Why join Creative Dock

We are proud of our informal atmosphere. We maintain a flat structure and the working environment is shaped around project teams. We believe in career development. All that matters are your skills and desire to learn more. No diploma will ever secure you a place at Creative Dock.

Equal opportunity employer

Creative Dock is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Be more with Creative Dock

We believe that ideas matter.

A new risk-reduced nicotine brand venture with big ambitions. We're a challenger brand looking to build the next big format in the risk-reduced nicotine segment, starting in Manchester.

We're looking for someone who loves being out in the market, building relationships, making things happen and seeing the results.

This is a chance to take real ownership. You'll be the face of this brand in Manchester, working across retail and HoReCa (hotels, restaurants, cafés and hospitality venues) to grow distribution, drive sales and bring our brand to life.

You'll manage our local sales and distribution agency, lead trade promotions and brand activations, and help us figure out what works. You'll have the freedom to bring your own ideas, test new approaches and make a real difference to how the business grows.

No sitting around waiting for someone to tell you what to do. We want someone who sees an opportunity and makes it happen.

Why join Creative Dock

We are proud of our informal atmosphere. We maintain a flat structure and the working environment is shaped around project teams. We believe in career development. All that matters are your skills and desire to learn more. No diploma will ever secure you a place at Creative Dock.

What you'll do

• Drive sales and distribution. Work with retailers, HoReCa partners and our sales and distribution agency to grow distribution, improve sell-through and increase repeat orders.

• Own the local agency relationships. Manage the Manchester sales and distribution agency and our field activation partners. Set expectations, track performance, challenge results and keep everyone focused on the right priorities.

• Make trade marketing happen. Get out into stores and venues to execute promotions, POS, staff engagement and other activities that help brand sell. You're as comfortable rolling up your sleeves as you are coordinating partners.

• Bring the brand to life. Help turn our marketing strategy into a practical local activation calendar covering retail, HoReCa, events and partnerships. Bring fresh ideas from the market and make them happen.

• Run the operation. Manage local budgets, suppliers, creative briefs, logistics and field teams, making sure everything is delivered on time, on-brand and in line with compliance requirements.

• Learn, improve and help us grow. Track sales, reorders, activation results and competitor activity. Share what you're seeing, test new approaches and help us build a model that can work beyond Manchester.

You'll work closely with our Venture CEO, NGP Incubation Lead, Creative Director and wider venture team, but you'll have plenty of autonomy to run the day-to-day operation in Manchester within agreed plans and budgets. Significant changes to sales and distribution agency priorities are agreed with the Venture CEO.

What you'll bring

The essentials

• 6+ years' experience in trade marketing, sales activation, field sales or commercial marketing.

• Strong hands-on experience executing trade promotions, in-store activations, events or field campaigns.

• A good understanding of retail sales, distribution, sell-through and repeat orders.

• Experience managing sales agencies, field teams or external activation partners and holding them accountable for results.

• Good brand judgement and the ability to work with creative teams and suppliers.

• A practical, independent approach. You enjoy being out in the market, solving problems and getting things done.

Experience in nicotine, tobacco or vaping is preferred, but we'll also consider candidates from other regulated FMCG categories.

Even better if you have

• Knowledge of Manchester's retail and HoReCa scene, ideally with existing relationships.

• Experience launching new products in the UK.

• Connections with wholesalers, cash-and-carry operators or retail groups in the North West.

• Experience working in a start-up or early-stage business.

You'll need the right to work in the UK and a full UK driving licence.

Why join us?

You'll be joining a small, entrepreneurial team where your ideas matter and your work has a direct impact. You'll have the freedom to shape how the brand grows in Manchester, the support of an experienced venture team and the chance to help build something from the ground up.

If you love the buzz of making things happen in the market, know how to turn trade activity into sales and want a role you can genuinely make your own, we'd love to hear from you.

Hiring Process:

Screening phone call with the Recruiter.

Interview with the Hiring manager.

Participation in a Bootcamp (1 day spent with your potential team – to showcase your skills and learn more about Creative Dock)

Equal opportunity employer

Creative Dock is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Be more with Creative Dock

We believe that ideas matter.

We are looking for an AI-Native Growth & Operations Lead to build and run the AI-native growth and operating engine for a high-potential venture in the French market.

In this role, you will design how the venture reaches, converts, and retains consumers while building a lean, heavily automated business from day one. You will work directly alongside the venture’s General Manager in a fast-paced build-operate-transfer environment, using AI, technology, and automation to achieve maximum growth with a minimal back-office footprint.

Mission

Design and build the AI-native growth and operating engine of the challenger unit. You will leverage AI, automation, and technology to fundamentally rethink how the business drives demand, acquires and retains consumers, and operates efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Growth Engine End-to-End: Lead consumer acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and demand generation built AI-native from day one.

• Design & Test AI Growth Experiments: Co-design and rapidly test AI-enabled growth approaches with the General Manager, converting successful tests into scalable, automated growth models.

• Build Loyalty, Subscription & CRM Systems: Rapidly design, iterate, and deploy consumer retention mechanisms, loyalty programs, and CRM infrastructure together with the tech team.

• Set Up Data & Tooling Stack: Implement customer data platforms, analytics dashboards, and custom AI agents independently of legacy corporate IT infrastructure.

• Design Lean Operations: Determine which back-office functions (finance, reporting, HR) are automated, outsourced, or supported centrally to keep operations lean.

• Drive Rapid Tool Iteration: Maintain an operating model that evolves faster than traditional corporate cycles, adopting new AI capabilities as they emerge while identifying where human judgment remains critical.

• Document for Scale: Document models, processes, and playbooks to enable smooth capability transfer and serve as a benchmark for future ventures.

Skills & Qualifications

• Proven Consumer Growth Experience: Track record of driving demand, consumer acquisition, and retention in DTC, subscription, e-commerce, or regulated scale-up environments.

• Hands-On AI & Tech Capability: Demonstrated ability to build growth and operating tools yourself, designing workflows AI-native from day one with tangible examples of what you have built.

• Data & Experimentation Mindset: Strong skills in rapid testing, data analysis, and scaling what works based on measurable business impact.

• Operational Design & Autonomy: Strong ability to evaluate build vs. buy vs. outsource decisions and design lean, automated workflows.

• Ownership & Ambiguity: High sense of ownership, comfortable working at speed within a small, dynamic project team.

• Languages: Fluent English; French is a strong plus.

• Location: Remote-friendly with regular presence in Paris.

What We Are Not Looking For

• Pure strategy or consulting backgrounds without hands-on execution and building experience.

• Purely technical AI/automation profiles lacking consumer growth experience.

• Profiles focused solely on theoretical AI pilots or tool rollouts without driving measurable business growth.

Hiring Process

1. Screening Phone Call: Initial introductory conversation with the Recruiter.

2. Hiring Manager Interview: Discussion focusing on your growth experience and hands-on AI capabilities.

3. Case & Live Demo: A 90-day plan featuring an AI-native consumer growth model and a live demonstration of tools or workflows you have built.

4. Bootcamp & Tandem Final Round: A 1-day session with your potential team and venture stakeholders to showcase your skills and experience our working style.

Why Join Creative Dock?

We are proud of our informal atmosphere. We maintain a flat structure and the working environment is shaped around project teams. We believe in career development. All that matters are your skills and desire to learn more. No diploma will ever secure you a place at Creative Dock.

We are building an AI-native challenger business in France to launch a next-generation consumer product. Operating on a build-operate-transfer venture logic, this unit is designed to scale a lean, heavily automated, and AI-first organization that combines a high-growth consumer engine with an agile operating model.

We are seeking an entrepreneurial General Manager / Venture Lead to own and build the French challenger business end-to-end. You will lead the French commercial strategy, drive acquisition and trial-to-repeat conversion, and manage the full P&L while steering an AI-native operating team.

Key Responsibilities

• P&L & Commercial Ownership: Take complete accountability for the unit's P&L, commercial outcome, and sustainable business growth.

• Consumer Proposition & Go-to-Market Strategy: Define and adapt the local consumer proposition, positioning, pricing, commercial model, and launch strategy.

• Growth & Experimentation: Co-design growth experiments (awareness, trial, conversion, and retention) alongside the AI-Native Growth & Operations Lead, sharing the primary KPI of trial-to-repeat conversion.

• Community & Activation: Shape a word-of-mouth and community-led growth model, complemented by innovative activation approaches designed for regulated market environments.

• Route-to-Market Strategy: Decide the retail and commercial distribution channels (including licensed tobacconists / buralistes and direct-to-consumer/subscription models).

• Stakeholder Management: Manage relationships with key corporate partners, reporting pre-agreed KPIs (e.g., customer acquisition cost, retention rates).

• Compliance: Ensure full alignment and strict adherence to French commercial and category regulations in close collaboration with legal counsel.

Key Requirements & Qualifications

• Hands-On Building Track Record: Proven experience building demand and launching, scaling, or turning around a consumer proposition or brand with a lean team.

• Consumer Growth Expertise: Deep expertise across proposition development, consumer segmentation, acquisition, trial, conversion, and retention.

• Commercial & P&L Leadership: Full P&L ownership and a strong track record of driving measurable commercial outcomes in the French market.

• French Retail & Regulated Markets Knowledge: Strong understanding of French retail landscapes and regulated consumer categories; experience with the buralistes channel is a strong plus.

• AI-Native Mindset: An AI-first operational philosophy—you naturally leverage automated tools and lean workflows rather than traditional corporate structures.

• Language & Location: Native or fluent French with working proficiency in English, based in or willing to relocate to Paris.

Hiring Process

1. Screening Call: Initial conversation with our Recruiter.

2. Hiring Manager Interview: In-depth discussion on experience and venture fit.

3. Bootcamp: A 1-day immersive hands-on session spent with your potential team to showcase skills and experience our working style.

Why Join Creative Dock?

We are proud of our informal atmosphere, flat structure, and team-centric environment. Career development at Creative Dock is driven entirely by your skills, initiative, and drive to learn—no diploma will ever secure you a place here. We believe that ideas matter.

Not every lawyer wants to sit in a traditional legal department.

Some prefer being where new businesses are born.

At Creative Dock, we're looking for a lawyer who enjoys solving real business challenges, working side-by-side with founders, venture teams and corporate leaders, and helping turn bold ideas into successful ventures.

If you have around 4 years of experience and are ready to own your agenda, influence strategic decisions and work across multiple countries and industries, we'd love to talk.

What you'll be doing

Be the go-to legal partner
Work closely with management, venture teams and business leaders across a broad range of legal topics. You'll help teams move fast while keeping risks under control through practical, business-focused advice.

Own contracts from A to Z
Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements, NDAs, employment contracts and other key documents. You'll make sure deals keep moving while protecting what matters.

Support investments and acquisitions
Get involved in M&A and investment projects from due diligence to closing. You'll collaborate with external law firms across different jurisdictions and be part of transactions that shape the future of our ventures.

Help build businesses from day one
Legal isn't an afterthought here. You'll join venture teams early, assess legal feasibility, support project workstreams and occasionally help facilitate legal workshops for our corporate partners.

Keep us one step ahead
Follow regulatory developments, support compliance initiatives and help ensure we're doing things the right way across multiple markets.

Protect innovation
Support our ventures with trademarks, copyrights, patents and smart IP structures that safeguard ideas and create long-term value.

Advise on corporate and employment matters
From company structuring to employment topics, you'll help navigate legal matters in the Czech Republic and internationally.

Wo we're looking for

✦ Master's degree in Law, with a good grounding in corporate, contract and labour law.

✦ Around 4 years of relevant legal experience

✦ Hands-on experience with contract drafting, review and general legal advisory work.

✦ Fluent Czech and English

✦ A practical mindset and business-oriented approach

✦ Ability to explain complex legal topics in a simple, actionable way

✦ Strong communication and organizational skills and confidence managing multiple projects simultaneously

Bonus points if you have experience with:

✦ Technology or IT law

✦ Intellectual Property law

✦ International legal environments

✦ Startups, venture building or innovation-driven businesses

Why Creative Dock?

🌍 Work across Europe, MENA, the US and beyond

🚀 Help launch and scale new businesses, not just support existing ones

🤝 Direct exposure to senior leadership and decision-makers

⚡ Real ownership and autonomy from day one

🧠 Join an AI-first company embracing modern tools and new ways of working

🎯 No two weeks look the same

Venture Lead – AgriFood

Are you deeply passionate about the future of food, agri-tech, and ingredient innovation? Do you bridge the gap between high-level innovation strategy, complex technical R&D, and global client growth?

We are looking for a Key Account Manager to own and expand our largest corporate client relationship—a global leader in the food ingredients space. This is not a single project, but a matrixed portfolio of parallel workstreams spanning multiple business units (including animal nutrition, food solutions, cocoa and chocolate, and protein) across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas.

Supported by our full corporate venture-building platform, you will serve as the daily face of the relationship, the commercial engine behind account expansion, and the strategic lead guiding multi-million euro innovation initiatives.

What You Will Do

• Key Account Leadership & Growth: Manage a wide network of corporate stakeholders—from group-level budget owners setting innovation strategy to BU project leads, R&D directors, procurement, and legal. Turn warm threads into signed work, reactivate dormant contacts, and open new entry points across global business units to hit an annual signed-revenue target.

• Commercial Structuring: Draft and negotiate complex proposals, statements of work, pricing structures, subcontractor arrangements, and order confirmations. Write precise scope language that survives global corporate procurement reviews without boxing in agile delivery.

• Thought Leadership & Strategic Framing: Produce original proposal decks, frameworks, and perspectives on food-system innovation that client leaders will put directly in front of their own executive boards. Position us as a primary thinking partner rather than a supplier.

• Hands-on Facilitation & Delivery Oversight: Directly facilitate ideation sessions, innovation sprints, customer discovery, and strategic workshops. Coordinate cross-functional delivery teams across strategy, design, and venture building.

• Stakeholder & Matrix Navigation: Protect internal advocates and deftly navigate corporate matrix dynamics, balancing conflicting instructions across regional and group-level stakeholders.

• Travel: Regular regional travel to client offices in Europe, with occasional wider travel across APAC and the Americas.

What We Are Looking For

We are seeking a unique profile combining deep agri-food domain context with high-level commercial execution:

• Genuine Passion for Agri-Food: Non-negotiable, deep energy for the food sector. You actively follow food-system trends, have original views on ingredient innovation, and understand technical R&D and production value chains.

• Relevant Background & Experience: 10–15+ years of total experience combining time at a food producer/ingredient company with time in strategy consulting, creative/innovation agencies, or corporate venture building. (Pure corporate food backgrounds or generalist consultants without food tech depth will not fit this role).

• Commercial Acumen & Political Sensitivity: Strong track record structuring and negotiating six-figure corporate engagements, holding a firm position under pressure, and navigating complex corporate matrix politics.

• High-Calibre Written Execution: Exceptional written communication capabilities. You produce polished proposals, client communications, frameworks, and briefs that stand up to C-suite scrutiny.

• Methodology Fluency: Strong familiarity with innovation frameworks (Venture Building, Jobs-to-be-Done, Customer Discovery, Desirability/Viability/Feasibility Validation, Lean Startup).

• Languages: Professional business English is mandatory; Dutch is a valuable asset.

• Nice to Have: Founder/entrepreneurial experience in food (even a past venture that failed), formal facilitation trainin

What We Offer

• High-Impact Mandate: A senior, high-visibility role carrying the group's flagship account with direct scope to shape and grow our AgriFood practice.

• World-Class Innovation Ecosystem: Access to deep global venture-building capabilities, methodology tools, and delivery talent.

• Entrepreneurial Culture: A hybrid, flexible work setup within a fast-moving international team that prioritizes growth and creativity.

Why join Creative Dock

We are proud of our informal atmosphere. We maintain a flat structure and the working environment is shaped around project teams. We believe in career development. All that matters are your skills and desire to learn more. No diploma will ever secure you a place at

Creative Dock.

Equal opportunity employer

Creative Dock is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Be more with Creative Dock

We believe that ideas matter.

Creativedock is building a portfolio of new ventures with our client, spanning manufacturing quality, production, data infrastructure, automation, and supply chain provenance. A discovery phase has mapped 16 investable concepts across 5 strategic themes — each with its own venture thesis and market/regulatory clock.

We are recruiting founding leadership to take one of these concepts from validation and pilot to a fundable, scalable business. As Founder, you will own the technical direction and build from the first prototype through scale, partnering directly with a Founder/ Product Lead and backed by Creativedock's venture-building team and client's industrial network.

What You'll Do

• Technical Architecture: Define and own the technical architecture, adjusting as constraints clarify.

• Engineering Leadership: Build and lead the early engineering effort—hiring when appropriate, building hands-on when needed.

• Stack & Tooling Strategy: Make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions balancing speed against long-term flexibility.

• Customer Pilot Validation: Validate technology directly with pilot customers, working alongside plant engineers and IT/OT teams in real production environments.

• Security & Compliance: Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and compliant—including data privacy and OT-specific security considerations for factory systems.

• Investment Gate Diligence: Own technical due diligence at each gate, translating technical risks and progress for the steering board.

• Co-Founder Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Founder on product roadmaps, sequencing, and engineering resource allocation.

What You Could Be Building

Concepts are matched to your background and conviction during the recruitment process. Technical surface areas across the current portfolio include:

• Computer Vision & Applied ML: Catching defects, damage, or quality issues from sensor and image data in manufacturing environments.

• Industrial Data Platforms & Integration: Unifying data across shop-floor and enterprise systems (MES, PLC, ERP, LIMS) while securing against OT-specific threats.

• Real-time & Predictive Software: Optimizing production scheduling, inventory, and capacity-matching decisions.

• Robotics & Automation: Control software, connectors, and orchestration for flexible, modular production equipment.

• Traceability & Provenance Systems: Verifying and recording product journeys from raw material to the field.

Note: You do not need experience across all domains—a strong pattern of architecting/shipping 0-to-1 technical products and rapid domain acquisition is what matters most.

What We're Looking For

• 0-to-1 Track Record: Proven experience taking a product from first prototype to production as a technical founder or lead.

• Hands-on Depth: Current coding and architecture experience—this is a active builder's role, especially in early stages.

• Domain Expertise: Experience in at least one key domain (e.g., CV/ML, industrial data integration, IoT/OT systems, robotics, enterprise data platforms).

• Pragmatic Mindset: Lean build instincts focused on shipping early, learning, and iterating quickly.

• Communication & Leadership: Ability to translate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders/investors and act as a full partner in product decisions.

• Languages: Fluent English; German is a plus.

Nice to Have

• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or OT-connected environments.

• Exposure to securing OT/industrial systems.

• Production experience with robotics or applied computer vision.

• Previous experience as a startup CTO or technical co-founder.

What We Offer

• Founder Equity: A meaningful founder stake in the venture you build with real upside.

• Venture Support: Dedicated methodology, coaching, operating capital, and proven build processes from validation through launch.

• Network: Direct access to client as a design partner, pilot site, and engineering sounding board.

• True Founding Journey: The opportunity to build a company from scratch, rather than joining an existing entity.

Creativedock is building a portfolio of new ventures with our client, spanning manufacturing quality, production, data infrastructure, automation, and supply chain provenance. A discovery phase mapped investable concepts across 5 strategic themes — each with its own venture thesis and its own market or regulatory clock. We are now recruiting the Founders who will take one of these concepts out of the portfolio and turn it into a real, standalone venture: from validation, through pilot, to a fundable, scalable business.

As a Founder, you won't inherit a business plan to execute — you'll take a validated concept and a strong initial thesis, and build the company around it: the product, the go-to-market, the team, and the case for continued investment. You'll be paired from day one with a Technical Lead and backed by Creativedock's venture-building team and client's industrial network.

What you'll do

• Own the venture. Adopt one concept from the portfolio and turn it into a fundable, scalable, standalone venture.

• Lead customer and market discovery. Talk directly to plant managers, quality leads, supply chain, and operations decision-makers to sharpen the problem, the buyer, and the value proposition.

• Shape the product. Define the product vision and MVP scope jointly with your technical co-founder, and make the sequencing calls between speed, learning, and scope.

• Drive commercial validation. Design and run pilots with reference customers, and turn early usage into evidence that the business is worth scaling.

• Own the numbers. Build the business case and financial model, and defend it at each investment gate in front of the steering board.

• Build the venture team and network. Hire the early team, and build the partnerships — with client business units, pilot customers, and external suppliers — the venture needs to move fast.

• Represent the venture externally. Be the face of the venture in front of customers, partners, and investors.

What you could be building

The exact concept is matched to your background and conviction during the process, and may evolve as you validate it. To give a sense of range, the current portfolio spans five themes:

• Quality Intelligence — AI and vision-based tools that catch defects, damage, and manufacturability issues earlier in the production and delivery chain.

• Adaptive Production & Supply — software that re-sequences production, rebalances inventory, and matches idle capacity to demand in near real time. • Manufacturing Data Backbone — infrastructure that unifies data across MES, PLC, ERP and LIMS systems, and secures it against OT-specific threats.

• Autonomous & Flexible Production — robotics, modular workcells, and AI-driven control systems that make factory floors more flexible and less capital-intensive.

• Product & Supply Provenance — traceability and verification platforms that follow a product and its supply chain from raw material to field.

You do not need experience across all of these — what matters more is a strong pattern of taking a 0-to-1 B2B product from insight to paying customers.

What we're looking for

• A track record of building 0-to-1 as a Founder, or early business lead who has taken a product from idea to market.

• Strong commercial and customer-facing instincts — comfortable running discovery interviews, shaping a value proposition, and closing early pilots or contracts. • Genuine comfort with ambiguity — confident making decisions with incomplete information and adjusting course as evidence comes in.

• A business or strategy foundation — able to build and defend a business case, financial model, and investment narrative.

• The ability to partner closely with a technical counterpart to work as true co-founders on product, priorities, and trade-offs.

• Fluent English; German is a plus

Nice to have

• Prior experience in manufacturing, industrial, automotive, or supply chain in B2B.

• Existing relationships or credibility with industrial or enterprise buyers.

• Background in corporate innovation, venture building, or corporate venture capital.

What we offer

• A meaningful founder stake in the venture you build, with the upside of ownership and the founder's real stake in its outcome.
  Dedicated venture-building support — methodology, coaching, operating capital, and a proven build process from validation through launch.

• Direct access to client's industrial network as an anchor customer, design partner, and potential co-investor.

• A genuine from-scratch founder journey — you are building the company, not joining one that already exists.