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# Growth Marketing Manager at Zeit AI (YC S24)

- **Company:** Zeit AI (YC S24)
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zeit-ai/9bc7c5e3-35a0-40f7-8fce-2f378cc0614b

## Job description

ZeitMind, the autonomous data engineer for the European mid-market

## About Zeit AI

In the coming years, companies will replace their internal data teams with AI agents to run more efficiently. We will be the solution they'll use. ZeitMind connects to the systems companies already run (ERP, CRM, spreadsheets, internal databases), cleans messy data, runs analyses on its own and builds data applications. Every employee can then work with data in plain language, with no technical degree and no help from IT. Our customers use it to organise agricultural inventories, to schedule maintenance, crew and flights for jet operators, and to replace controllers' manual Excel reports.. Founded by Marvin and Leopold, both ex-Palantir. YC S24, backed by Oxford Seed Fund and Sequoia Scout. Customers in manufacturing, agriculture and aviation. Zero to €1M ARR in our first twelve months with six people. Small team, one room in Munich, regular team offsites.

Your Mission: Own how Zeit AI shows up As our first marketing hire, you own everything between someone hearing our name for the first time and Sales having a qualified conversation. Website, search, content, brand, events. Your mission is to turn that into a steady stream of inbound from DACH.

Your Daily Business - no two days are alike

- The website, in Webflow: content, structure, landing pages, conversion, tracking. You build and ship it yourself
- SEO: keyword research, on-page and technical work, backlinks. A bet you keep placing, not a project that ends
- SEA: Google Ads and LinkedIn, measured on qualified inbound, not impressions
- YouTube: building and maintaining our channel with product demos, customer stories and explainers
- PR and thought leadership: press articles, guest lectures and talks, getting Marvin and Leopold in front of the right audiences
- Writing: blog, landing pages, one-pagers, customer stories
- Brand guidelines that stick: fonts, colours, templates, tone, and the discipline to hold the line once they exist
- Events, end to end: selection, stand, materials, speaker slots, follow-up
- Reporting: you know which channel produced which pipeline

Your Skillset - what you bring to the table

- 2 to 3 years in B2B marketing, ideally as the first or only marketer somewhere. What you have shipped counts more than where
- You have marketed something that needs explaining: complex B2B products, ideally to operational buyers
- Hands-on with Webflow, SEO, SEA and GA4. You have built the pages and run the campaigns yourself
- German and English, both fluent.
- You write sharply, think visually, and notice when something looks off
- AI-native: you automate the repetitive parts and use tools like Claude Code and Claude Cowork to move faster
- Nice to have: an eye for product UX

## What We Offer

- Full trust, maximum support. You shape this from day one, with the team as your content source
- A real path into owning marketing at Zeit AI
- Munich is our hub. In-person by design, and we cover your relocation within Europe
- Regular team offsites
- Best tools, zero blockers. Daily lunch allowance, dinner covered in the office, Wellpass
- €5k referral bonus if we hire someone you refer

Interview Process

- First call with Elena (15 min)
- Role deep-dive with Deepika, GTM Lead (45 min)
- Call with Leopold, Founder (30 min)
- In-person case in Munich (2 hours), plus reference check
- Meet the team, including Marvin, Founder

We aim to get through this in two weeks.

## About Zeit AI (YC S24)

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zeit AI builds an autonomous AI Forward Deployed Engineer that connects to business systems (ERP, CRM, SAP) and turns raw data into operational applications and decisions using natural language.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup) — Y Combinator S24 batch, Seed stage
- **Headquarters**: Munich, Germany
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Leopold von Waldthausen (CEO) and Marvin Bornstein (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data Infrastructure and Analytics, Enterprise AI
- **Target customers**: Mid-market and enterprise companies in Europe, specifically heads of controlling, operations managers, and business operators who rely on ERP, CRM, and SAP systems
- **Mission**: To build the first AI Forward Deployed Engineer for the European market — an autonomous system that connects to source systems, prepares messy data, and turns business questions into operational applications in natural language.

## Products & Services
- **ZeitMind**: The core product — an autonomous AI system that connects to business systems (ERP, CRM, SAP, etc.), cleans messy data, and builds custom operational applications and dashboards using natural language. No IT or data engineering team required. Use cases include inventory control, procurement analytics, financial controlling, and margin risk detection.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $625,000 USD (Seed round led by Y Combinator, with a prior pre-seed round)
- **Key Metric**: Reached €1M ARR within 12 months of founding
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (S24 batch), backed by top global investors and industry leaders
- **Growth Signals**: 10 employees (+66.7% YoY), 8 active job postings, reached €1M ARR in first year, customer results include €700k saved through AI inventory control, €24M in unified procurement data, 370 hours back per month from automated reporting

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder-market fit**: Both founders are former Palantir Forward Deployed Engineers who built and deployed the first instances of Palantir's AIP platform and generated over €50M in new revenue for large industrial clients
- **Speed of deployment**: Claims to deliver measurable results within weeks, not months — a risk-free, low-friction onboarding model
- **Natural language interface**: Business users can build analytics, dashboards, and workflows without engineering effort, using plain language
- **In-person, forward-deployed model**: Engineers work directly at customer sites, ensuring deep integration and rapid value delivery
- **YC-backed credibility**: Part of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, with strong investor backing

## Strategic Focus
- **European market dominance**: Specifically targeting European industrial and mid-market companies that rely on SAP, ERP, and CRM systems
- **Product-led growth**: Building an autonomous system that scales from initial use cases (inventory, procurement, controlling) to full operational control
- **Hiring aggressively**: 8 open positions across engineering, forward-deployed, sales, and GTM — signaling a push to scale the team and customer base
- **Proven ROI model**: Using a six-month engagement to prove value, track savings, and validate impact before scaling

## Why Work Here
- **High-impact, small team**: A team of 10 engineers, builders, and operators — every hire has outsized ownership and impact
- **YC-backed startup**: Part of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, with strong investor support and a clear growth trajectory
- **In-person culture**: Munich-based, in-person work — not remote. Engineers are forward-deployed at customer sites, not behind a screen
- **Cutting-edge AI work**: Building with frontier models to solve real, messy enterprise data problems — the kind of work that was previously only possible at Palantir or large tech companies
- **Founding team pedigree**: Founders are ex-Palantir (Leopold led DACH business, Marvin deployed first AIP instances). Early engineers come from Palantir, BCG, and top European tech companies
- **Transparent and principled culture**: The team operates on five core principles: Bias for Action, Live Growth, Ownership, Candor, and Craftsmanship
- **Competitive compensation**: Salaries range from €70K–€120K EUR for engineering roles, with equity (0.10%–1.00%) for founding team members
- **Real business impact**: Customer results include €700k saved in inventory control, €450k in procurement savings, and 90% reduction in Excel reporting

## Sources
1. [zeit-ai.com](https://www.zeit-ai.com/)
2. [zeit-ai.com/about-us](https://www.zeit-ai.com/about-us)
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zeit-ai)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zeit-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zeit-ai)

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