Hey you! Yes you! Are you looking for an opportunity to work hands-on with the coolest, brightest and most ambitious startup founders who are building companies that are shaping the future? If yes, you’ve come to the right place.

About Kiuas

Kiuas was built on an idea to accelerate early-stage startups to become industry leaders one day. With over ten years of Kiuas accelerator programs and over 300M+ funding for alumni companies such as Swappie, Twice Commerce, Exaum and Woamy, the time has come to try something totally new. As our next Head of Startups, you have a unique opportunity to be one of the changemakers deciding what that is!

The Role

In your role as the Head of Startups, you take ownership of the following:

• Working hands-on with startups, be it sourcing, interviewing, analyzing, helping, accelerating or scaling them.

• Generating and analyzing deal flow to our startup initiatives.

• Analyzing (different) markets, customer profiles and future trends.

• Generating new startup teams by matching extraordinary talent to new ideas.

  
  

About you

This is a rare opportunity for anyone passionate about learning the ins and outs of early-stage startup building, what sets the successful founders apart, and how to scale that recipe to a large pool of companies. We don’t expect you to fully master these things when you join but rather are looking for someone who is eager to learn and grow into the role.

All backgrounds are welcome to apply. Here are some things that we believe will help you to succeed in this role:

• You have solid experience in working with startups. You might have been a founder or an operator in the past or have work experience in the ecosystem.

• You are passionate about entrepreneurship and have the drive to help others.

• You are an analytical person with a desire to learn new things.

• You take initiative and are comfortable working in a fast-paced, proactive and unstructured environment.

• You take ownership and are ambitious to develop new concepts forward.

• Your communication skills in English (both written and verbal) are excellent.

What to expect?

What to expect when joining the team:

• We pay every full-time Kiuas team member the same salary of 3000€ per month.

• Your personal network will grow exponentially. In this position, you are in constant contact with ambitious and mission-driven founders, prominent business angels, and venture capitalists. Be prepared to get inspired! 😊

• We are probably biased, but you get to become a part of a great team. We are a compact team with a strong team spirit.

• You will become an expert on how to take a startup idea from 0 to 1. You get to observe and learn how great founders build companies and then turn those learnings into action with dozens and dozens of early-stage founders.

• We work flexibly both remotely and from Otaniemi. We are happy with the hybrid model and it is important that all team members have a chance to do team days at the office as well.

  
  

About the recruitment process

1. Submit your application

2. A quick get-to-know call

   • The purpose of this call is to get to know each other in a relaxed setting.

3. 30-minute interview

   • Getting to know you and your previous experiences better, and assessing your fit for the role and our team.

4. Assignment & 60 minutes to go through your output

   • We’ll give you an assignment to better understand how you make decisions, prioritize and analyze tasks.

   
   

Please note that we will start going through applications as they come in. As we are looking to fill this position swiftly, we will make a decision as soon as possible when we find the right person.

We look forward to hearing from you!