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# Founders Associate at Zauber

- **Company:** Zauber
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zauber/d96752e1-20ee-4f86-948c-ace42a97b632

## Job description

🌍 About Zauber

After co-founding and scaling Forto https://forto.com to over $600M in funding, I took a step back to reflect on what's still broken in global logistics. The answer was clear: it's still a human-first, spreadsheet-heavy industry, full of repetitive processes and broken system interoperability.

With the rise of AI agents, we now have the tools to rethink that from the ground up. Zauber builds autonomous agents for the global logistics industry, AI workers that handle operational tasks, talk to systems and humans alike, and get better every day.

🚢 We're already live with global logistics leaders in Europe and Asia

💰 Backed by P9 - one of Europe's top early-stage funds

📈 Growing fast and hiring exceptional talent to join early

We are now looking for an exceptional Founders Associate to help us scale Zauber into its next phase. This is a full-time role with significant responsibility, designed for someone who wants to operate at the center of a fast-growing company and grow into a senior operating or founding role over time.

🧠 What You'll Do

You'll be a core part of a small and fast-moving team, working directly with the founders on the highest-leverage problems across the company. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role where you will help us scale both product and company operations, while taking end-to-end responsibility for critical workstreams.

- Own and run cross-functional projects across finance, operations, compliance, and people
- Build and manage internal systems, tooling, and automations that let the company scale
- Lead recruiting efforts end-to-end and support onboarding of new team members
- Support go-to-market initiatives and help bring our agents to enterprise customers
- Step into whatever challenge moves the company forward, from board prep to vendor management

👤 You Might Be a Fit If You...

- Have already proven yourself in a generalist or operating role and want more responsibility
- Enjoy solving a wide range of problems in dynamic, ambiguous environments
- Take full ownership and pride in execution, including the unglamorous details
- Are able to switch between big-picture thinking and detailed execution within the same day
- Are curious about startups, AI, and how category-defining companies get built
- Aspire to build something meaningful and potentially start your own company later

🛠 What You Bring

- 2+ years of experience in generalist, operating, consulting, or founding roles, ideally in early-stage or high-agency environments
- A technical background or strong intuition for AI, software, and automation, with the ability to build internal tooling yourself
- Strong communication skills in both German and English
- High integrity, strong work ethic, and a sense of urgency
- Comfort owning outcomes end-to-end without needing close supervision

📍 Location & Logistics

- Berlin office, in person preferred
- Start: as soon as possible
- Full-time, permanent role
- Competitive salary plus meaningful equity participation

💼 What We Offer

- A role with real responsibility and end-to-end ownership from day one
- Meaningful equity in one of Europe's most ambitious AI companies
- A close-knit team that values action, clarity, and customer impact
- Direct access to experienced operators and founders, with a clear path to grow into senior operating or founding responsibility
- The chance to shape one of Europe's most ambitious AI startups during its formative years

🚀 Why Now

We're not a demo company. We're in production with real customers, in one of the world's most critical and complex industries. Demand is not our bottleneck, execution is. Logistics remains largely untouched by intelligent automation. Legacy systems, manual processes, and fragmented workflows make it one of the most fertile grounds for AI transformation.

This is your opportunity to learn company building by doing, at a level of responsibility that is hard to find anywhere else. You will not be a passive observer but an active driver of what gets built and how we grow.

We envision a world where every shipment is proactively managed by intelligent agents, where operators have superhuman capabilities at their fingertips, and trade never stalls.

🇪🇺 Building from Europe

What drives us personally is the belief that Europe's long-term prosperity and sovereignty depend on a strong economic engine. We need more AI product-first European global champions on the world stage.

Our mission is to build one of the biggest automation companies in the world, from Europe. While our HQ will be in Europe, we will relentlessly benchmark ourselves with the best globally and sell internationally from the beginning.

## About Zauber

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zauber provides AI agents that automate information movement between systems for sea and air freight forwarders, boosting conversion, protecting margins, and freeing operators to focus on high-value work.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany (primary office; additional offices in Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and India)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (key team includes Erik Muttersbach, Dennis Agidigbi, Dr. Fabian Struck, and Alex Krass)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Logistics technology / AI for freight forwarding
- **Target customers**: B2B – sea and air freight forwarders, especially top-tier and enterprise-level forwarders
- **Mission**: “Build the tools to help freight forwarders shine” – empowering operators with AI that handles routine tasks so they can focus on what only they can do

## Products & Services
- **Zauber AI Agents (SaaS)**: Purpose-built AI agents that live in Outlook, reading emails, drafting replies, pulling rates, and updating the TMS (CargoWise One and others). They handle quote preparation, document extraction (PDFs, spreadsheets, images), booking creation, exception handling, and automatic follow-ups. The platform also provides an operational intelligence dashboard that reveals productivity, service quality, and revenue leakage across branches, lanes, and customers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; headcount of 18 employees (per Built In)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed; integrations include CargoWise One, Outlook, Teams/Slack, SharePoint, OneDrive, and major rate management systems
- **Growth Signals**: Already live with Top 20 forwarders; global rollout experience; claims time-to-value in weeks; expanding across multiple regions (Brazil, Spain, Mexico, India)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Built by a team with 10+ years of experience running a freight forwarder and building TMS/RMS platforms – agents are pre-trained for real logistics workflows
- **Seamless integration**: Works within existing systems (Outlook, CargoWise One, RMS) – no migration or workflow change required; operators keep working as before
- **EU data security & sovereignty**: GDPR-compliant, ISO-27001 certified (Q2), built on European infrastructure
- **Full auditability**: Every action logged and traceable, with configurable approvals and compliance controls
- **Continuous learning**: The platform improves with every shipment, turning interactions into a self-reinforcing operational flywheel

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale globally while maintaining local execution**: Workflows can be deployed across products, teams, regions, and customers with consistent service quality
- **Expand use cases**: From quote automation to booking, document extraction, and exception handling – all described in plain language and executed by agents
- **Deepen operational intelligence**: Unify data from emails, documents, and disconnected systems to reveal hidden productivity drops and revenue leaks

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: “From forwarders, for forwarders” – the team is passionate about transforming an industry they know intimately
- **Impact in a small team**: With only 18 employees, new hires have outsized influence on product direction and company growth
- **Work policy**: Hybrid and in-office options available depending on role and location (Berlin, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, India)
- **Engineering culture**: Build AI that solves real-world logistics complexity; focus on practical, operator-first design rather than hype
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company emphasizes rapid prototyping, global deployment, and close collaboration with top-tier forwarders

## Sources
1. [gozauber.com](https://gozauber.com/)
2. [Built In – Zauber](https://builtin.com/company/zauber)
3. [Zauber Team Page](https://gozauber.com/team)
4. [Zauber Product Page](https://gozauber.com/product)
5. [Zauber Why Us Page](https://gozauber.com/why-us)

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