Founders Associate (Ops & Product)

About Us

Nobura is an early-stage startup from Munich founded by an ex-BCG and ex-Enterprise-SaaS-CEO

. We help real estate clients finally benefit from the potential of AI — through unprecedented efficiency and transparency gains. Our agentic action and intelligence layer for institutional property owners and asset managers automates tedious work and delivers decision intelligence that increases portfolio value. We are very early but with substantial customer traction — and are building the founding team now.

Our Culture

This role is for everyone who is eager to build and learn with a tech-driven mindset. We believe that organisations are fundamentally changing in the world of AI. For us this means: every role here is client-facing as well as product-facing — nobody at Nobura only talks, everybody builds. We work on-site in central Munich, believing that being together in person is critical to success, culture, and fun.

Your Role & Responsibilities

You work directly with the founders as one of our first hires. You own outcomes end to end: you are in front of the client, and you build the product they use.

• Own the client relationship. You run workshops, onboarding and the conversations after — from the asset manager approving invoices to the managing director who needs the portfolio report. You are the person your clients call, and their success is your outcome, not a shared KPI.
• Ship the product. Claude Code, Cursor and whatever comes next write the code; you write the requirements, orchestrate the agents, review what comes back and test it. You take features from a client conversation to production.
• Do the unautomated work — then automate it. Portfolio onboarding, invoice processing, custom reports. Until the product does it perfectly, you do the gap by hand — and what you learn from doing it decides what we build next.
• Pick up whatever is most broken. Pricing, a new client segment, our own internal AI tooling, a competitor question. You come back with something built — a playbook, a prototype, an analysis — rather than a recommendation.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Drive: You have a deep intrinsic motivation to build something that was not there before. You do not need to be told what to do — you create your own tasks and challenge whether we are still on the right track.
• Analytical & Structured: You bring strong analytical foundations and 0–3 years of high-performance experience (top-tier strategy consulting, VC, a hyper-growth startup) — or an exceptional track record of building things yourself. You take pride in the quality of your work.
• AI Native: You already use AI tools daily and have a feel for what agentic software can and cannot do reliably today. You reach for a tool before you reach for a colleague.
• Not Afraid of Code: You will read code, JSON and SQL and review what an agent produced. You do not need a computer science background — but "I'll wait for an engineer" will not work here.
• Client Credibility: Institutional owners and asset managers are a conservative, relationship-driven audience. You can sit in that room and be taken seriously — in German and in English.
• Get-It-Done: You thrive in ambiguity, take radical ownership of your projects, and know when to ship and when to polish.

You May Not Be a Good Fit if

• You need a detailed roadmap and clearly defined tickets to be productive.
• You see client contact or hands-on delivery work as a distraction from "real" strategy work.
• Your instinct on a hard problem is to delegate it rather than to solve it yourself.
• You are looking for an established corporate environment and a 9-to-5 mentality.

Why Join Us

• Real impact from day one. Every role is client-facing as well as product-facing, so you get to solve real-world problems with solutions you personally build. Nothing you do here ends up in a folder.
• The right technology at the right moment. AI completely changes how businesses operate and how products get built. Real estate is one of the largest and least digitised industries there is, and it is being rebuilt right now — this is the window to be one of the people doing it, not one of the people reading about it.
• A market that rewards operators. Institutional real estate is enormous, fragmented and structurally slow to change. That is exactly why a team that can both build and sell into it compounds an advantage that is hard to catch.
• A rare chance to build from the ground up — with equity. We are very early, so every position at this stage shapes the organisation — and comes with potential for significant equity participation, paired with a competitive salary.
• People you'll love to spend time with. Though we all love to work, we also love to have fun while doing so. Everyone here is fun to work with, so you will enjoy dinners, offsites, and Monday mornings.