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Co-Founder, Head of Engineering
Location
Croatia
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Co-Founder, Head of Engineering
EWOR
• You will own, build, and run your startup in fields such as EdTech. • You will embark on an extensive personal development journey crafted by unicorn founders and follow a fully customised programme enhancing your goal, time, and energy management. • You will receive support in hiring through our network to over 50,000 professionals and advice as well as best practices from serial entrepreneurs. • You will receive intensive coaching to make your startup ready to raise millions in funding. • You will iterate your product with us until having reached product-market-fit and receive support in building up a sales force or creating a marketing engine respectively.
Job Requirements
- You are based in Europe or the Americas or open to relocate.
- You are willing to take full responsibility for your own startup and scale it to €100M+ in revenues.
- You have excellent communication skills in the English language.
Benefits
- A salary while you build your startup as you will directly be employed by us.
- Alternatively, you can opt for up to €500k in funding.
- 1:1 sparring with unicorn founders on a weekly basis.
- Community: Access to the top 0.1% of founders, peers and investors.
- Team building: Hiring top notch talent supported through our network (over 50,000 professionals).
- Distribution: Support in reaching product-market-fit and building up a sales force / marketing machine.
- Funding support for securing a multi-million euro funding round within 12 months (on average, EWOR Fellows raise > €2M after our Grand Pitch).
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