Founder's Associate (f/m/x)

About lemon.markets 🍋

We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers.

lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months.

As part of the dwpbank group, we’re adding a layer of resources and expertise to benefit from, while continuing to operate as an independent fintech with our own team, product, and start-up identity under the dwpbank umbrella.

Your Mission:

As a Founder’s Associate, you will work closely with the Founder and CEO and leadership team to help drive the company’s strategic priorities and operational execution.

In this role, you will take ownership of high-impact, cross-functional projects across the business. These may range from supporting strategic initiatives in commercial, product, and operations teams to improving internal processes, building organisational structures, and helping ensure alignment as the company scales.

This role is ideal for someone who is excited by our mission of enabling anyone to invest in capital markets. You will be close to many strategic initiatives and interact beyond lemon.markets towards our parent company, dwpbank. You will get the best of both worlds: the opportunity to work closely with experienced experts across functions while taking on meaningful ownership in a dynamic and ambitious environment.

This is going to be the ride of a lifetime for someone, who thrives in a fast-moving environment, enjoys solving ambiguous problems, and wants to gain first-hand experience in how a high-growth fintech infrastructure company is built.

You will:

• Support the Founder and CEO on strategic and operational projects that drive company goals and priorities.
• Own and lead projects with a deep focus on brokerage, custody and capital markets, this is where you will spend a significant part of your time and where domain knowledge is essential.
• Analyse market developments, competitor dynamics, and trends across the European brokerage, wealth, and investment infrastructure landscape.
• Take ownership of special projects that support the next stage of lemon.markets’ growth.
• Lead and mentor the Founder’s Associate Intern team, providing structure, guidance, and prioritisation across projects while helping develop their skills and ensuring high-quality execution.
• Contribute to refining and scaling internal processes, documentation, and operating structures across the company, especially in light of what becomes possible with AI.
• Help develop, structure, and execute cross-functional initiatives across teams.
• Act as a connector across the organisation by understanding team priorities, spotting gaps and blockers early, and helping drive effective cross-functional collaboration.

You’ll be successful in this role if you:

• You have a background (bachelor and master degree) in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Computer science or a similar area.
• You are an entrepreneurial problem solver. You strive to take ownership of the tasks you get and apply your analytical skills, structured thinking, and independent working style towards solving them.
• You have gained 2 years or more of hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment. Ideally, you have worked in an early-stage startup, fintech, consulting, tech company or similar.
• You bring experience from the world of brokerage, trading or custody and/or are deeply excited to get into the engine room details of our mission to make anyone an investor.
• You cope well with frequent change and ambiguity. Changing tasks & requirements excite you. You are able to think logically, break down complex problems and prioritise between multiple tasks on your table.
• You are a team player. Working together as a team and sharing knowledge comes naturally to you.
• You never let anything fall down your plate. Being on top of things is what you are known for. Having no hesitation to follow up on people until the job gets done.
• You are ready and willing to take ownership. “This is not my job!” is not part of your vocabulary - you identify problems, take initiative to take them on, and challenge the status quo.

How we take care of you:

🕑 Flexible working hours

• We trust people to choose when they work best and avoid a rigid 9 to 5 mindset. You decide on the rhythm that helps you do your best work, with only shared core hours from 12:00 to 16:00 to support collaboration.
• 🏢 Hybrid work setup: You can work from anywhere in Germany within a hybrid model. At the same time, in-person collaboration is a key part of our culture. That being said, individual contributer lemoneers work 4 days or more per month on-site in our Berlin office, spending quality time together with the team at events, onsites/offsites or over team dinners.
• 📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously! You’ll get regular mentorship and stretch opportunities, a clear career development framework with frequent feedback conversations as well as an annual learning budget.
• 🌱 People & culture: You’ll feel our culture in the small things, like Polaroids from our lemoneers’ first day and our monthly new-joiner breakfasts. But also in the bigger things, like celebrating the onboarding of new partners or our annual offsites, where the whole company comes together to connect, reflect, and celebrate.