Founder Associate at Sartiq

Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

19 Sep, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

21 Jun, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

AI Automation, Enterprise Sales, Investor Relations, Fundraising, Strategic Planning, Market Research, Cold Calling, Prompt Engineering, Business Operations, Financial Administration, English Fluency, Italian Fluency

Industry

Retail Apparel and Fashion

Description

Sartiq is an AI-powered content creation platform for fashion brands. It creates great product images and videos at a fraction of the cost and time of a physical photoshoot. Our enterprise clients publish more than 10,000 of our photos every month, making us one of the largest photography studios in Europe, and we don't own a single camera. We work with tier-1 European fashion and retail brands, we're VC-backed, and we're growing fast. We went from 3 people in June 2025 to ~15 now. If you want to start your own company one day, this is the closest seat there is to learning how. You'd work next to the Founder & CEO every day, in the real decisions and not just the tasks: revenue, investors, the hard client calls, the experiments we'd run. You'll learn enterprise sales, hiring, investor relations and fundraising by actually doing them, not watching from the side. I'm looking for a right hand with founder DNA: someone who wants in on the decisions, is eager to learn by really doing the work, and who grows this role as fast as they can carry it. Tasks What you'll do: Revenue automation: build the agents that support my CRO job. My biggest internal hat is Chief Revenue Officer and I'm obsessed with automating it. I wrote a sketchy internal AI toolchain (quotes, invoicing, follow-ups, reconciliation, pipeline tracking). You'll operate it, extend it, and build new agents, so the automatable part of revenue management runs without either of us doing it by hand. You do not need a CS degree, but you need to have a strong automation mentality and a mental model that involves agents on a daily basis. Decision memos: turn my half-formed ideas into rigorous docs. I'll hand you a raw question ("How can we adapt our billing to better support the creation of editorial fashion campaigns?") and a rough sense of how it might work. Your job: start by gathering how agencies do it today, structure an internal proposal, and run the thought experiment to the end. Map every second-order consequence (on margins, on client behavior, on our positioning, on ops), pressure-test it, come with me to clients to stress-test the idea, and wrap it up in a structured memo so we take a better decision together. My diary, my radar, my assistant. You always know what's happening across our deals and conversations with investors, partners and clients. It's not so sexy, but you make sure I get to every meeting that matters and that I reply to every message that counts. Over time you become the person who is proactive enough, being less buried than me, to flag the opportunity we're about to miss, the contract clause I skimmed, or the better deal hiding in a thread. Special projects and sourcing. When we need something (quotes for a new shooting studio in Milan, vendor research, CVs screened for an early hire), you're the person who picks up the phone, calls people we've never spoken to, gets the answers, assembles the inputs, and brings me a decision-ready package. You're comfortable cold-calling a stranger to get the number we need. (Nice to have) AI product experiments. I have a constant stream of product ideas I want tested fast. Example: can we gather a sufficient view of a brand product and visual brand identity history through a web search? e.g. Claude scraping the Internet Archive. I'll give you the technical angle. You build the small prototype, run the experiment, score the output honestly, and bring back what's real. Your first 90 days: Take full ownership of invoicing and payment-chasing, and ship at least one new automation that removes a recurring manual step from my week. Deliver one real decision memo on a live strategic question (e.g. the creative-work billing change), second-order effects mapped, clients consulted. Be in enough of my calls that you can draft a client follow-up I'd send without editing. Requirements Requirements to apply: A sharp generalist, 1-3 years in something demanding (consulting, analyst, early-stage operator, startup, or you built your own thing even during school). Genuinely AI-native: you already use Claude/ChatGPT daily to do real work, and you can build a small prototype or automation without an engineer holding your hand. Comfortable on the phone with strangers and in the room with senior client contacts. Fluent in English and Italian (required for our clients). Ready to be in Lugano, in person, daily. What this is not: Not an executive assistant. Calendar hygiene is the basis, not the job. Not an engineer. You build with AI tools; you don't need a CS degree. Not a strategist who won't touch the tools. You think and you ship. Not remote. Proximity is the whole design. Benefits How we work: on-site in Lugano, together, most of every day. I want to spend real time with you: that's the point. You do the legwork and bring structure, I make the call, and you get direct access to me and to our clients. Competitive Swiss compensation: a fixed salary plus equity in the company (which is the real upside). Lugano, on-site. Direct line to the founding team. I truly want to get to know you, be human. Any AI-slop will be rejected instantly. Send: A cover letter (max 1 page) with what you've actually done that your CV doesn't show, and why you're the right person for the job. If it looks like it was written by ChatGPT, I'll delete it immediately. Include in t a link to a demo (or code, or a video) of one thing you built or automated with AI, out of passion or personal need. No paid jobs, not something someone else asked for.

Responsibilities

Act as the Founder's right hand by automating revenue management processes and drafting strategic decision memos. Manage executive scheduling, investor communications, and conduct special sourcing projects to support company growth.