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Founder's Associate

On-site in Barcelona·Full-time·Added 11 days ago

Afori

7 open roles

Overview

Job details

  • Full-time hours

    Per the ad.

Requirements

  • Have the right to work in Spain

    Afori doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.

  • Work in English

    English is required, per the ad.

  • German

    The ad asks for German, or counts it in your favour.

  • Work on-site in Barcelona

    No relocation package mentioned.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

  • Competitive salary + team bonus pool + equity (4-year vesting, 1-year cliff).
  • Office-first culture in the heart of Barcelona, 24 days annual leave + public holidays.
  • Learning budget, team events, and a true Dream Team culture.

Requirements

Nice to have

  • A technical degree combined with business understanding. You can read code and a P&L.
  • Insurance experience. You know how an insurance broker's day works.

The role

Help change one of the largest global industries: insurance brokerage.

What you'll do

  • Whatever matters most: Some of it comes from the founders' table. Some of it is lying between roles with nobody's name on it. You take it from "what is going on here" to "this is what we do" to done.
  • AI enablement: You use AI to research, analyze, synthesize, automate, and execute faster than anyone expects. Then you make the team faster too: agents that run overnight, skills that turn one good output into a repeatable one, loops that check their own work.
  • How Afori shows up: Together with our Head of Marketing & Community you build the systems behind how the world sees Afori. The engine that turns what happens inside the company into the founders' voice on LinkedIn. The website that updates itself. The event pipeline that runs without a spreadsheet. Marketing at Afori is something you build, and this part stays with you every month.
  • Keep the company running: Tools, contracts, AI automations, the things that have to work every week. Nobody notices when they do. Everybody notices when they don't. You make sure nobody notices.

Your Role

A Founders Associate exists to give the founders leverage. You take problems off their table and solve them at the source, so they never come back.

This is an early-career role with real responsibility. You have built things before: automations, internal tools, a side project, maybe a company. Nobody has to tell you where to start. You find the biggest problem, take it, and come back with it solved.

You work with Fabian and Sergi every day. There is no fixed job description, and that is the point. What you work on is whatever matters most that week: the pitch for a broker who could change our year, the growth experiment nobody has tried yet, the event where the whole industry meets us, the process that decides whether we can onboard three brokers a month or thirty. GTM, marketing, growth, operations. You touch all of it. In one year you will have seen more of how a company gets built than most people see in five, and you will have your fingerprints on the parts that mattered.

Two founders can only be in so many places. You are how they are in more of them.

Minimum qualifications

  • 0-2 years of work experience in a high-intensity environment. Startup, consulting, or your own company. Exceptional recent graduates welcome.
  • A strong track record. In your studies and in your work, you stood out from the people around you. And you have aimed at something big before. If it worked, great. If it didn't, we want to hear what you learned. The ambition matters more than the outcome.
  • You can work end to end. Have the idea, figure out the plan, build it yourself. When you pitch something, you bring a working version, not a slide about it. You don't need someone to fill in the details or tell you what is feasible.
  • AI-native, without exception. There is not a single task where you don't ask how AI can do it, speed it up, or improve it.
  • You build automations yourself (n8n, APIs, webhooks) and understand how an AI product works under the hood.
  • Fluent German and English. Our market is Germany, our office is Barcelona.

Cultural Fit

  • Low ego, high agency. One day it is the investor update, the next it is a customer data set that needs cleaning at nine in the evening. You take both with the same energy, because both move the company.
  • You can't stop thinking about how AI is going to change the way people work, and what becomes possible when it does. You want to be one of the people making that happen.

Working at Afori

We hire for work ethic, drive and autonomy. Everything else can be learned on the job.

Nobody here gets micromanaged. You get freedom, you own your work, and you carry the outcome.

Afori is our number one priority and we all make sacrifices for it. We are in this to make it huge and to do the best work of our lives. As an early-stage startup, we won't hide this reality from candidates: raw hours make a big difference in the impact we can make right now. The team works through some evenings and some weekends, driven by personal ambition, not by anyone counting hours. No one tells you how many hours to work, but the team moves at rocketship speed.

Why join us

  • You work directly with the founders.
  • You see fundraising, product and GTM from the inside, in your first year.
  • A serious AI budget per person. Whatever tool makes you faster, you get it. Nobody here has to argue for a subscription.
  • Live in Barcelona ☀️☀️☀️

Hiring process

Speed matters to us. With the right person, we can run the whole process in under two weeks.

  1. Intro call with Felix, founding team member
  2. Interview with Fabian, our CEO & Co-Founder
  3. Interview with Sergi, our Co-Founder & CTO
  4. One-day trial with us in the Barcelona office

If it's a fit on both sides, you'll have an offer shortly after the trial day.

Sound like you? Apply with your CV and a few lines on why this founding role excites you.

About Afori

Afori is an insurance technology company that provides an AI platform specifically for insurance brokers. Its platform automates back-office tasks such as tariff comparison, coverage questions, and document review, and integrates with tools like Outlook. The company emphasizes GDPR compliance and ISO 27001:2022 certification, with data processed exclusively within the EU.

Afori has a presence in Barcelona, Spain, where it is hiring for roles including AI Associate, Broker Deployment Lead, Founding Senior Product Manager, Founding People Ops Lead, Founding Senior ML Engineer, and Senior NodeJS Backend Engineer. The company's website is available in German, suggesting a focus on the German-speaking market, but its Spanish office indicates a growing international footprint. For international professionals, the company offers roles in AI, engineering, and product development within a startup-like environment.

Industry
Insurance Technology
Headquarters
Barcelona, Spain
In Spain
Barcelona
Website
afori.com

Good to know if you are moving

  • Afori is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and is hiring for multiple founding-level roles in the city.
  • The company's AI platform is tailored for insurance brokers, automating back-office tasks like tariff comparison and coverage questions.
  • Afori emphasizes GDPR compliance and ISO 27001:2022 certification, with all data processed within the EU.
  • The company's website is primarily in German, indicating a strong focus on the German-speaking insurance market.
  • Open roles include engineering, product management, and people operations positions, suggesting a growing startup team.

In their own words

About the company & team

Afori's vision is to ensure every human has the right cover at the right time. Our founders previously built insurance unicorn wefox and are now building the AI layer for insurance brokers: agents that plug directly into brokers' daily workflows and take over the back-office work that eats more than 60% of their time. We already save brokers over 2.5 hours a day, freeing them up to do what actually grows the business: advising customers well.

The opportunity is massive: the global protection gap is €1.3 trillion, and insurance distribution still runs on manual processes. Sequoia recently mapped AI-native services opportunities and ranked insurance brokerage first, a $140-200B market. We raised a €4M pre-seed led by General Catalyst, backed by investors and operators including Mustafa Suleyman (CEO, Microsoft AI) and Alex Rinke (Co-CEO, Celonis)

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