Your mission

As our Founder’s Associate, your mission is to keep Ucaneo running smoothly behind the scenes. You’ll oversee critical internal processes — from financial planning and grant coordination to operational administration such as inventory and visa support. You’ll help shape our company culture through well-organized events and smooth team operations. Working closely with the founders, you’ll build scalable systems that drive clarity, efficiency, and sustainable growth across the organization.

Key Responsibilties

• Financial Control – manage company spending and invoicing through our financial tool, support budgeting and reporting cycles, and maintain up-to-date business plans and financial models.
• Grant & Funding Management – prepare financial documentation for public grants and funding programs, ensuring compliance, timely submissions, and accurate reporting.
• Asset & Inventory Management – establish and maintain an organized inventory of company assets, lab and office equipment, and procurement records.
• People & Operations – support HR administration, onboarding, and visa processes while coordinating procurement, contracts, and vendor relations.
• Culture & Events – organize company events, offsites, and team travel, fostering collaboration and a strong team culture across the organization.

Your profile

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• 2–3 years in a Finance, Controlling, or Operations role, ideally in a startup or fast-paced environment.
• Strong proficiency in financial modeling and spreadsheet analysis, familiarity with expense management systems, and solid understanding of key SaaS metrics and business fundamentals. Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills (mandatory).
• Strong numerical and problem-solving abilities; data-driven decision-maker.
• Highly structured, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to communicate complex information clearly.
• Fluency in German and strong working proficiency in English. Workstyle and culture
• Fast learning and quick to grasp complex topics
• A team player with a hands-on mentality
• Authentic and reflective self
• self-Organizer and structures workstyle to keep focus and get things done
• Good listener and effective communicator in cross-sectional team
• Curious and open-minded Other
• Valid Work Permit for Germany, or able to obtain a permit

Benefits

• Unique experience contributing to a first-of-a-kind climate-tech project (tFOAK).
• A steep learning curve, exposure to cross-functional challenges, and the ability to shape a project from the ground up.
• Working directly with the founders
• Fast-paced, collaborative environment where your decisions have a real impact.
• Competitive compensation and personal growth opportunities.
• Employee stock options
• Flexible working hours
• Regular team events
• Subsidized BVG ticket
• Laptop and your individual work set up

At Ucaneo we develop a pioneering Direct Air Capture technology mimicking the human lung to remove carbon dioxide from the air. Climate change is a global problem and needs to be tackled at scale. Therefore, we set the goal to capture 0.5 GT of CO2 from the air by 2035 - roughly the same weight as all humans on earth combined!

After the first promising results in the lab we continue to focus on our technology. If you want to join an ambitious team with lots of freedom and growth check out our career page and LinkedIn jobs. We are looking for talents in the area of chemical engineering, electrochemistry and mechanical engineering and cannot wait to meet you!