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 is a Collective Founder Office for early-stage startup teams combining space, community, and momentum to build faster and go further. Kiuas has over 300+ alumni companies with a total of €250M+ in raised capital. As our next Head of Startups, you have a unique opportunity to help and work alongside the next wave of Nordic startup success stories.

The Role 

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

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

• Generating and analyzing deal flow to the Collective Founder Office and taking care of the founder experience.

• Analyzing different markets, customer profiles and future trends.

  
  

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 what it takes to build a long-lasting successful startup 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?

• 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 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 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 through The Hub

2. A quick get-to-know call

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

3. 30-minute interview

   • Getting to know 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!