Founder's Associate Intern

About lemon.markets 🍋

We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses, providing seamless access to capital markets. By empowering FinTechs, Banks and Wealth Managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers.

lemon.markets provides a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform for simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure makes launching an investment product customer-centric and compliant. We abstract all complexity for our partners through a well documented API, a self-service customer operations portal and operating in a clear regulatory framework. Enabling partners to launch in weeks, not months.

We have experienced first hand that brokerage infrastructure is broken. Building an investment product used to be highly expensive, challenging and cumbersome. We ease this pain by shielding our partners & their customers from the underlying complexity - and with that, we make investing seamlessly accessible to everyone. Because that’s exactly what we enjoy, going to places nobody else dares and solving hard problems. This not only creates tons of value when done right, but attracts the smartest minds - because outlier companies are built by exceptional people like you.

Your Mission:

As a Founder’s Associate Intern, you will support the leadership team here at lemon.markets, making sure the business grows & runs smoothly, ensuring alignment across all business areas.

You will work on a selection of diverse projects ranging from Strategy & Operations, to Business Development & Go-to-Market. These projects are hard to forecast and will highly depend on needs evolving from the phase lemon.markets is in, as well as hugely on your interests and the skill set you already bring along.

You’ll get the best of both worlds: Experience first-hand how an early-stage start-up is being built, enjoy & benefit from a fast-paced and flexible environment, while working closely with experienced experts in their field. That means you will not only support and leverage your skill set, but learn & grow by taking on projects with a high degree of ownership.

You will:

• Support the leadership team on strategic projects: Help develop business strategies & execute on them, making sure we stay aligned with our company goals & objectives.

• Further, define & develop our GTM strategy: Continuously research and analyse market trends, conduct competitor activities, and stay up to date with the changing Brokerage landscape in Europe.

• Drive various strategic initiatives to help us prepare for our growth post launch, ramping up business operations and ensuring operational excellence.

• Critically question, analyse and improve existing processes. Constantly aim to improve our existing setup, build world-class processes around it, that enable us to have a smoothly running organisation.

Who are you:

• You have a background in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Computer science or a similar area.

• You are an entrepreneurial problem solver. You strive to take ownership of the tasks you get and apply your analytical skills, structured thinking, and independent working style towards solving them.

• You have gained hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment. You understand what working in a startup or a similar lean organisation is like. Ideally, you have worked in an early-stage startup, fintech, consulting, tech company or similar.

• You are ready and willing to take ownership. “This is not my job!” is not part of your vocabulary - you identify problems, take initiative to take them on, and challenge the status quo.

• You cope well with frequent change and ambiguity. Changing tasks & requirements excite you. You are able to think logically, break down complex problems and prioritise between multiple tasks on your table.

• You have a hands-on mentality. You default into action, want to gather first learnings fast, and iterate on the progress along the way.

• You are a team player. Working together as a team and sharing knowledge comes naturally to you.

• You have no problem with learning new tools and skills on the go. You try to solve problems with more things than the ones you already know. We will always enable you with that, but your willingness has to come first.

How we take care of you:

🕑 Flexible working hours: We value focus time. Encouraging everyone to minimise fixed meetings and leverage asynchronous communication.

🚀 Competitive compensation package: We offer you a competitive salary and benefits package, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets.

💎 Make a real impact: Shape how lemon.markets grows, connects, and is experienced by our community. Your ideas and execution will directly influence how we reach new audiences, build trust in our brand, and accelerate our presence across FinTech and beyond.

💻 Build your perfect setup: Mac, Mechanical Keyboard, Screen. These are not expenses but investments. Please tell us what is needed to make you productive, and we will take care of it.

🏢 Hybrid work set-up: We all believe that in - person collaboration is an integral part of working together, but we offer flexibility to work from home and across Europe. That means lemoneers work 4 days or more per month onsite & we come together for a team offsite twice a year.

🗣️ Open Culture: Agile management, a lot of trust and a diverse, creative culture with a collaborative international team.

📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously, meaning that we make sure to constantly mentor and challenge you so that you can reach your next level and beyond.

About the process

1. Quick Get-to-know - Raphael - Founder's Associate | 30 Minutes

2. Deep Dive Founder Associates Team - Teresa - Chief of Staff | 45 minutes

3. Case study - take home assignment

4. Meet the team | 90 Minutes

   1. Case Study Presentation - Teresa - Chief of Staff

   2. Principles Session - A selection of lemoneers