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title: 'Founding Deployment Strategist at Dataleap'
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# Founding Deployment Strategist at Dataleap

- **Company:** Dataleap
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dataleap/f19ba5b6-0bb8-4eab-a1f1-614310873140

## Job description

## About Dataleap

We raised $3M from YC and angels like Aravind (CEO Perplexity) and Rahul Vohra (Superhuman) to build the agentic operating system for the enterprise. We have thousands of agents deployed across scale-up startups and Fortune 500 companies. We have PMF and are doubling revenue every month. And we have far more enterprise inbound than we can handle.

## About the role

This role is what I used to do, and I need someone to do it better than I did. You will lead the rollout of Dataleap across the European market, based in Munich, and will work directly with me — the CEO and founder.

From day 1, you are not an account manager or a vendor, but a trusted partner who helps our customers AI-transform their entire org. Each customer is like a mini consulting project where it's your job to diagnose where AI creates the most leverage, identify the highest-value use cases, train the org, build the agents alongside them, and turn the company into an AI-native operator. You own the outcome.

As we scale, you help build the team underneath you by hiring, owning, and shaping Dataleap in Europe. Basically a founder in a founder-led company.

This role is a front row seat for AI - you learn how to deploy AI in big corporations and play at the forefront of development. You can sit with a CTO and credibly debate model selection, eval strategy, data residency, and integration architecture, because you've shipped it yourself.

## What you'll do

- Find the use cases that matter. Build the first agents yourself to prove the value, then scale adoption org-wide.
- Host agent hackathons, discuss rollout strategy with the C-Suite, and help them make their companies AI-native.
- Navigate complex political landscapes inside huge organizations. Find the champions. Disarm the blockers. Build relationships at every level, from end users to the CEO.
- Be the voice of the customer to engineering and product. Push hard for what they need. Push back when they're wrong.
- Build agents and workflows in Dataleap to automate your own role. We expect you to systematically eliminate manual work from your job, not use AI as a productivity buff.
- Lead the European rollout from Munich. Build the team underneath you as we scale.
- Find the thousand things I haven't listed here, and just do them.

You're a fit if

- You're an AI power user. Not "exploring AI" — you live in it. You're shipping agents on weekends and have opinions on model routing, eval design, and where current systems break.
- You're high agency and high clock speed: you drive the agenda, prioritize ruthlessly, and communicate sharp and to the point.
- You're low ego, high ownership. There's unsexy work and you'll do it without flinching. You want to work hard and be deeply obsessed.
- You're commercially sharp — renewals, expansion, and multi-stakeholder navigation are second nature.
- You're comfortable being the youngest in a room of executives and still the one in charge.
- You speak German at a native level and are based in Munich (or ready to move here).

I'll index heavily on energy, values, and slope.

## What you get

- Direct exposure to the best people at YC, Founders Inc, and CDTM.
- Frequent trips to San Francisco, catapulting you to the absolute forefront of agentic AI.
- The best mentors and coaches for whatever problem you're working on.
- Unlimited AI budget to automate your own work.
- Generous equity and comp that reflects the impact I expect this role to have.
- The path to build and lead a team as we scale across Europe.
- I will personally make sure this is the fastest growth opportunity of your career.
- If you ever want to start your own company, I'll back you.

## About Dataleap

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dataleap builds the Agentic Operating System for enterprises, enabling business teams to create AI employees (agents) without engineering assistance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; Y Combinator S24)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (also has office in Munich, Germany)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Jan Damm (CEO) and Jan-Hendrik Ruettinger (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Agentic Automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – tech-forward companies ranging from 2-person startups to 2,000-person unicorns; later expanding to all companies.
- **Mission**: “Make knowledge work at your computer fun” – give non-engineering roles (sales, ops, HR) the same AI superpowers that engineers get with tools like Cursor and Claude Code.

## Products & Services
- **Dataleap Platform**: A cloud-based agentic work platform that lets business users describe tasks in natural language and have autonomous AI agents execute them. Features include:
  - 200+ pre-built integrations with common tools (Confluence, ServiceNow, Okta, etc.)
  - Support for custom HTTP APIs and MCP servers
  - Custom interfaces with action buttons generated from user data
  - Human-in-the-loop approvals, reviews, and handoffs
  - Multi‑model support to choose the best LLM for each task
  - Triggers from app events, schedules, and webhooks

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: **$3M** (announced Feb 4, 2026) – raised exclusively from founders and operators. Previous rounds: $500k pre-seed and $125k seed from Y Combinator.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Harj Taggar), BOOOM VC (Felix Plapperer), Wayfinder (Yuri Sagalov), Founders Inc., Alliance, Ritual Capital, Nomad Capital, Phosphor Capital, Rebel Ventures; angel investors include Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Rahul Vohra (Superhuman), Hanno Renner (Personio), and others.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Team size grew from ~5 to 6 employees (+40% yearly LinkedIn growth)
  - 2,208 LinkedIn followers (+61.8% year over year)
  - Active job postings (3 open roles) with monthly increase of +50%
  - Customers ranging from startups to 2,000‑employee unicorns
  - Creating a new category they call **“vibe working”** – blending close AI collaboration with background automation

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agent‑first interface**: No visual workflow builder or long setup (differentiated from tools like n8n and ChatGPT conversational agents).
- **Cloud‑first**: Agents run in the cloud, ensuring knowledge is not lost locally.
- **Enterprise‑ready**: 200+ integrations, human‑in‑the‑loop controls, approvals, and ability to use the best model per task without vendor lock‑in.
- **Crafted experience**: Self‑described as “the Linear of our category” – focused on reliability, ease of use, and virality within organizations.

## Strategic Focus
- Decentralize agent building – give power to domain experts instead of central business automation teams.
- Redefine knowledge work: elevate AI agents from one‑off tasks to persistent background workers.
- Expand from tech‑forward companies to all enterprises.
- Continue building the “agentic operating system” that absorbs and replaces traditional software categories.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, agile team (6 people) with a strong mission and high ownership; described as building “the future of work.”
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office – roles open in San Francisco (HQ) and Munich, Germany.
- **Compensation & equity**: Founding‑level roles with salary ranges:
  - San Francisco: $120K – $250K + 0.20% – 1.00% equity
  - Munich: €90K – €150K + 0.10% – 0.50% equity
- **Notable perks**: Work with YC‑backed team, access to top AI models, and direct impact on product direction. The founders come from Google, BCG, and Oxford AI research.
- **Who they look for**: “Extremely good” individuals who resonate with redefining work – currently hiring Founding Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (Munich), and Deployment Strategist.

## Sources
1. [dataleap.ai](https://dataleap.ai/)
2. [ycombinator.com – company page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dataleap)
3. [linkedin.com – company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dataleap-inc)
4. [dataleap.ai – $3M funding announcement](https://www.dataleap.ai/blog/3m-funding-round)
5. [ycombinator.com – jobs page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dataleap/jobs)

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