BizOps Manager & Founders Associate (d/f/m)

🚀 YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Luminovo is building the software infrastructure for the $2 trillion electronics supply chain — helping OEMs and EMS quote and procure faster by bringing all data, processes, and players together in one place. We're 100 people, growing fast, and in the middle of executing a bold revenue strategy across Europe and North America.

At a company growing at this pace, how the leadership team operates matters as much as what it decides. How 100 Luminerds stay aligned on quarterly priorities. How the CEO allocates attention to the most impactful topics. How Finance and the founders stay in sync week to week. How staff meetings are structured so that leadership time consistently lands on the right decisions — all of this compounds, for better or worse.

This is where you come in. You will be the operational connector between Sebastian (Co-Founder & CEO) and Benedikt (VP Finance & Operations) — making their collaboration run smoothly and keeping the full leadership team coordinated. In practice: you prepare our staff meetings and offsites, own the company-wide OKR process, and help us build the AI-native operating infrastructure of a fast-scaling company.

This role exists because Catha, our Chief of Staff, is going on parental leave — and the operational heartbeat she's built needs to keep beating. But this is more than a coverage hire! You’ll have a long-term progression path, working closely together with Catha when she returns.

🎯 PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

FOUNDER LEVERAGE & CONTINUITY

• Build and run Seba's daily operating system for non-revenue topics. Design and maintain a triage and briefing system — AI tooling and templates by default — so Seba's time on operational topics measurably decreases vs. Catha's pre-leave baseline within the first 3 months.

• Own the board and investor rhythm. Prepare board meeting materials, investor reporting, and the State of Luminovo — all running on time and at quality throughout Catha's leave, with Benedikt as your key partner.

• Run the OKR cycle end-to-end. Own the full quarterly OKR process: kickoff, tracking, mid-quarter reviews, and retrospectives — proactively flagging risks before they become blockers.

FINANCE & REPORTING OPERATIONS

• Support Benedikt on financial reporting and KPI work. Prepare and quality-check budget updates, business plan inputs, and management reporting — acting as a reliable thought partner on analytical tasks and making sure leadership always has current numbers.

• Organize staff meetings and offsites. Own the logistics, preparation, and follow-through for all staff gatherings — so that the time of 90+ people is used well.

BUILD GREAT THINGS

• Automate repetitive ops processes. Starting with Seba's workflow as your primary customer, identify high-frequency manual tasks and build or configure automations (Notion, Slack, AI tools) that reduce time-on-task — then expand to other stakeholders.

• Document and systematize. Convert at least 3 previously ad-hoc workflows into reusable playbooks, templates, or automated processes by month 9 — starting with board prep, offsite planning, and OKR cycle management.

• Build a central wiki for Founder Operations. Create and maintain a single source of truth for the operational processes and templates that support the founders' daily work — making Luminovo more resilient as we scale.

CULTURE & OPERATING PRINCIPLES

• Be a role model on Putting People First and Productive Conflict. Given this role's proximity to leadership, actively model these principles — reinforce, not replicate, any gaps.

• Embrace feedback. Proactively seek and give direct, specific feedback. Treat every 1:1 and review as an opportunity to grow — and help others grow.

🤓 WHOM YOU'LL BE WORKING WITH

• Benedikt https://www.linkedin.com/in/ummen/ — your direct manager during Catha's leave; key partner on finance, KPIs, and OKRs

• Seba https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-schaal/ — your primary internal "customer" for founder leverage and inbox management on non-revenue topics

• Catha https://www.linkedin.com/in/catharina-kuhwald/?locale=en — 2–3 week handover at start; returns ~July 2027; reporting line after return TBD

• Cross-functional leadership — the full management team across Product & Engineering and Revenue & Operations

⚡️ Skills, knowledge, and expertise

Just so you know — we purposefully did not create a standard list of minimum qualifications for this role. We care much more about your motivation and ability to help us accelerate technical progress than about your CV. (Why we banned requirements from our job descriptions https://luminovo.ai/resources/blog/why-we-banned-requirements-from-our-job-descriptions)

Why Luminovo

• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with our founders at a well-funded European scale-up with 300+ customers

• A role at the operational heart of how the company runs, with a clear path to grow as we scale

• AI at the core of how we operate, not a marketing slide

• Collaborative, international team with offices in Munich, Berlin, and New York

⚡️ ABOUT LUMINOVO

Luminovo is the first electronics supply chain platform that unites all data, processes, and stakeholders in the trillion-dollar electronics industry https://luminovo.com/resources/blog/a-short-primer-on-the-electronics-industry?utm_campaign=employer_branding&utm_source=candidate-traffic.

We fundamentally believe that technology is the best tool that humankind has developed to tackle the biggest challenges we face as a society today. And we want to do our share in accelerating technological progress.

We bring innovations to life faster and cheaper by creating a more connected and resilient electronics supply chain.

To date, over 300 active customers worldwide are working with us towards this shared goal. Supported by leading investors such as Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst/LaFamiglia, Chalfen Ventures, and others, we have raised more than €20 million https://luminovo.com/resources/blog/luminovo-raises-eu11-million-in-seed-funding-to-fix-the-broken-electronics-value-chain-with-transformative-software-suite.

Our core principles: putting people first & building great things

As a remote-first company headquartered in Munich, our brilliant team is spread across cities including Munich, New York, Austin, Calgary, Berlin, London, Valencia, Nairobi, and Verona, among others. 🌍

Our team includes a mix of product enthusiasts, people advocates, business masterminds, and engineering experts. Among us are graduates from institutions like Stanford University and the University of Cambridge, as well as talented individuals with unconventional CVs. What matters most is their drive to build great things.

We provide an authentic environment based on psychological safety to empower Luminerds from various backgrounds to succeed, grow, and focus on impact. Putting people first means that we deeply care about who our employees are, what makes them unique, and what they excel at.

See what employees and candidates have to say about Luminovo on kununu https://www.kununu.com/de/luminovo and Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.de/Bewertungen/luminovo-ai-Bewertungen-E2039308.htm.