--- title: 'Founder''s Associate at Afori' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founder-s-associate-afori-barcelona-jc5mhm9qmbk3' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-24' --- # Founder's Associate at Afori - **Company:** Afori - **Location:** Barcelona, Spain - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/afori/am9icG9zdDp8df6SyUBB0bXURyNyyDeQ ## Job description Help change one of the largest global industries: insurance brokerage. ## About Us Afori's vision is to ensure every human has the right cover at the right time. Our founders previously built insurance unicorn wefox and are now building the AI layer for insurance brokers: agents that plug directly into brokers' daily workflows and take over the back-office work that eats more than 60% of their time. We already save brokers over 2.5 hours a day, freeing them up to do what actually grows the business: advising customers well. The opportunity is massive: the global protection gap is €1.3 trillion, and insurance distribution still runs on manual processes. [Sequoia recently mapped AI-native services opportunities](https://sequoiacap.com/article/services-the-new-software) and ranked insurance brokerage first, a $140-200B market. We raised a €4M pre-seed led by General Catalyst, backed by investors and operators including Mustafa Suleyman (CEO, Microsoft AI) and Alex Rinke (Co-CEO, Celonis) ## Your Role A Founders Associate exists to give the founders leverage. You take problems off their table and solve them at the source, so they never come back. This is an early-career role with real responsibility. You have built things before: automations, internal tools, a side project, maybe a company. Nobody has to tell you where to start. You find the biggest problem, take it, and come back with it solved. You work with Fabian and Sergi every day. There is no fixed job description, and that is the point. What you work on is whatever matters most that week: the pitch for a broker who could change our year, the growth experiment nobody has tried yet, the event where the whole industry meets us, the process that decides whether we can onboard three brokers a month or thirty. GTM, marketing, growth, operations. You touch all of it. In one year you will have seen more of how a company gets built than most people see in five, and you will have your fingerprints on the parts that mattered. ## Your Impact Two founders can only be in so many places. You are how they are in more of them. What You'll Do: - Whatever matters most: Some of it comes from the founders' table. Some of it is lying between roles with nobody's name on it. You take it from "what is going on here" to "this is what we do" to done. - AI enablement: You use AI to research, analyze, synthesize, automate, and execute faster than anyone expects. Then you make the team faster too: agents that run overnight, skills that turn one good output into a repeatable one, loops that check their own work. - How Afori shows up: Together with our Head of Marketing & Community you build the systems behind how the world sees Afori. The engine that turns what happens inside the company into the founders' voice on LinkedIn. The website that updates itself. The event pipeline that runs without a spreadsheet. Marketing at Afori is something you build, and this part stays with you every month. - Keep the company running: Tools, contracts, AI automations, the things that have to work every week. Nobody notices when they do. Everybody notices when they don't. You make sure nobody notices. Who You Are: Minimum qualifications: - 0-2 years of work experience in a high-intensity environment. Startup, consulting, or your own company. Exceptional recent graduates welcome. - A strong track record. In your studies and in your work, you stood out from the people around you. And you have aimed at something big before. If it worked, great. If it didn't, we want to hear what you learned. The ambition matters more than the outcome. - You can work end to end. Have the idea, figure out the plan, build it yourself. When you pitch something, you bring a working version, not a slide about it. You don't need someone to fill in the details or tell you what is feasible. - AI-native, without exception. There is not a single task where you don't ask how AI can do it, speed it up, or improve it. - You build automations yourself (n8n, APIs, webhooks) and understand how an AI product works under the hood. - Fluent German and English. Our market is Germany, our office is Barcelona. Preferred qualifications: - A technical degree combined with business understanding. You can read code and a P&L. - Insurance experience. You know how an insurance broker's day works. Cultural Fit: - Low ego, high agency. One day it is the investor update, the next it is a customer data set that needs cleaning at nine in the evening. You take both with the same energy, because both move the company. - You can't stop thinking about how AI is going to change the way people work, and what becomes possible when it does. You want to be one of the people making that happen. Working at Afori We hire for work ethic, drive and autonomy. Everything else can be learned on the job. Nobody here gets micromanaged. You get freedom, you own your work, and you carry the outcome. What is work/life balance like at Afori? Afori is our number one priority and we all make sacrifices for it. We are in this to make it huge and to do the best work of our lives. As an early-stage startup, we won't hide this reality from candidates: raw hours make a big difference in the impact we can make right now. The team works through some evenings and some weekends, driven by personal ambition, not by anyone counting hours. No one tells you how many hours to work, but the team moves at rocketship speed. Why join us? - You work directly with the founders. - You see fundraising, product and GTM from the inside, in your first year. - A serious AI budget per person. Whatever tool makes you faster, you get it. Nobody here has to argue for a subscription. - Live in Barcelona ☀️☀️☀️ ## What We Offer - Competitive salary + team bonus pool + equity (4-year vesting, 1-year cliff). - Office-first culture in the heart of Barcelona, 24 days annual leave + public holidays. - Learning budget, team events, and a true Dream Team culture. The Process Speed matters to us. With the right person, we can run the whole process in under two weeks. - Intro call with Felix, founding team member - Interview with Fabian, our CEO & Co-Founder - Interview with Sergi, our Co-Founder & CTO - One-day trial with us in the Barcelona office If it's a fit on both sides, you'll have an offer shortly after the trial day. Sound like you? Apply with your CV and a few lines on why this founding role excites you. ## About Afori ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Afori builds an AI platform that automates administrative and back-office tasks for insurance brokers, starting with email inbox management and tariff comparisons. - **Entity Type**: Private – raised a Seed round (EUR 4M, Oct 2025) and a Pre-Seed round (USD 4.6M, Nov 2025) led by General Catalyst. - **Headquarters**: Barcelona, Spain - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Fabian Wesemann (CEO) and Sergi Baños (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Insurance technology (InsurTech), AI-powered workflow automation, productivity software - **Target customers**: Insurance brokers (B2B) – specifically their back-office and administrative teams - **Mission or purpose statement**: To give brokers more time for client advisory by reducing their administrative workload through AI; to help brokers continue fulfilling their social role of helping people protect themselves. ## Products & Services - **Afori AI Inbox Agent**: An AI agent integrated with Outlook that reads emails, understands insurance terms and processes, and transforms unstructured communications into structured workflows (tasks, checks, filings). - **Tariff Comparison Agent**: Automatically compares legacy and new tariffs from policy documents, surfacing differences that matter to the client. - **AI Assistant for Insurance Brokers**: Combines a proprietary insurance database (34d, GDV data, legislation) with a broker’s own cases to deliver context-appropriate answers and redact sensitive data. - **General AI Agents**: Specialised agents for repetitive office tasks (emails, customer inquiries, document checks) that learn from the broker’s behaviour without setup or training. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (recent early-stage startup) - **Key Metric**: Total funding – EUR 4M Seed (Oct 2025) + USD 4.6M Pre-Seed (Nov 2025) = approximately USD 9M+ combined; also a prior round of EUR 4M. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst led the Pre-Seed round; the Seed round included 9 investors (not named in the data). The platform connects to “MVP” systems (German insurance industry standard). - **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2025, already 15 employees distributed across Spain, Germany, UK, and Japan (LinkedIn). Active hiring for founding-level roles (Senior Product Manager, Senior NodeJS Backend Engineer, Summer Internship 2026). ## Competitive Advantages - **Insurance-specific AI**: Afori’s database is “filled with insurance-specific knowledge: 34d, tariffs, GDV data, and relevant legislation” – a niche moat. - **GDPR & ISO 27001 certified**: Hosted exclusively in the EU, data processing is documented and verifiable, critical for trust in regulated insurance markets. - **Pragmatic, broker-built**: Co-founders each have 10+ years in insurance (Fabian at wefox, Sergi as first engineer at wefox), and the team includes licensed insurance brokers. - **Zero-setup adaptation**: “Afori learns your way of working and takes on more with every process. Entirely without setup or training.” ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Automating the highest-friction back-office tasks (email inbox, tariff comparison); expanding AI agents to cover more broker workflows; scaling the team with founding and senior talent across engineering and product. - **Direction for growth**: Enabling AI-assisted brokers to serve more clients with personalised advice, while reducing administrative burden; continued expansion into European markets (already has a presence in Germany, UK, Japan). ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Early-stage startup where new hires are “founding” team members; strong emphasis on pragmatic, service-driven engineering and solving real problems for brokers. Team includes experienced founders who have built companies before, engineers from Amazon, AI researchers, and Wharton graduates. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid workspace – employees combine remote and on-site work; typical time on-site in Barcelona, Spain. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to shape AI agents from the ground up; involvement in context engineering, RAG, microservice orchestration; summer internship tracks in knowledge systems, website redesign, and automation processes. The company is “pragmatic, service-driven, built with and for brokers.” ## Sources 1. [afori.com/en/](https://www.afori.com/en/) 2. [afori.com/en/ressourcen/uber-uns](https://www.afori.com/en/ressourcen/uber-uns) 3. [linkedin.com/company/afori-ai](https://linkedin.com/company/afori-ai) 4. [builtin.com/company/afori/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/afori/jobs) 5. 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