About Comena
Comena builds AI agents for industrial distributors and manufacturers to automate their order processing from e-mail inbox to ERP. At distributors across the US and Germany alone, there are 4 million sales and procurement people stuck in manual workflows between inbox and ERP. We want to automate this work and liberate these people to work on more meaningful things.
We’re part of the YC S25 batch - the most selective batch in YC history. We recently raised a seed round from top Silicon Valley investors and are serving customers across US and Germany.
About the role
We’re hiring a Founder’s Associate to work directly with the founders on the highest-priority projects in the company. This is an early-career, high-ownership role for someone who wants a front-row seat to building an AI startup from the inside.
This role has two flavors. Both are highly execution-heavy, customer-facing, and close to the founders.
Track 1: Sales & Growth
This track is for people who want to build deep go-to-market skills fast. Your initial focus will be outbound sales: cold calling, cold emailing, LinkedIn outreach, lead research, follow-up, and pipeline building. Over time, you’ll take on broader sales and marketing responsibilities.
What you’ll do
Track 2: Operations & Customer Success
This track is for people who want to learn how an early-stage company delivers for customers and scales operations. Your initial focus will be customer onboarding, customer support, and internal coordination. Over time, you’ll own more of the systems and workflows that make Comena run smoothly.
What you’ll do
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Why join
The company builds AI agents for industrial distributors and manufacturers to automate order processing from e-mail inbox to ERP. Across the US and Germany, 4 million sales and procurement professionals are stuck in manual workflows between inbox and ERP. Comena is part of the YC S25 batch, described as the most selective batch in YC history, and recently raised a seed round from top Silicon Valley investors. The company has added six-figure ARR in the last month and serves customers across the US and Germany, with a deliberately small team. Founders Jiehua and Almo bring notable credentials—Jiehua was the youngest software engineer at Google Zurich and the first sales hire at askLio (YC S23); Almo shipped code at Microsoft and Amazon AWS and was the first engineer at Leaping AI (YC W25).
Salary
$60,000 - $90,000
Equity
0.2% - 0.9%
Location
Munich, BY, DE
Experience
0+ years
Total raised
$500K
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.