Founder's Associate

BackingNordics is looking for our first Founder's Associate (Growth) to help us drive our company growth and market expansion.

This is a fast paced, hands on role for candidates who take initiative and get things done. As the right hand of our CEO, you will work side by side with us and translate data and insights into commercial impact.

This is a high ownership role for someone unusually ambitious, resourceful, and fast moving.

• Sales Growth: Book qualified meetings and over time close clients
• GTM Engineering: Source market and pipeline data to identify high potential target accounts and continuously sharpen how we go to market
• Market Expansion: Explore and validate new markets and identify strategic growth opportunities
• Customer & Partner Success: Build, manage and close partnerships and drive customer expansion
• Bring back data on what customers say for product development
• Build systems and processes that make the company operate faster and more effectively
• Take ownership of important problems that don't yet have a natural owner
• Identify and eliminate operational bottlenecks across the company

• Fluent in Swedish and English (required)
• Extremely high agency: You turn ambiguous goals into action, make decisions with incomplete information, and drive work forward without waiting for instructions.
• Exceptionally reliable: You close loops. If you own something, others can depend on you fully and stop needing to think about it.
• Fast and intellectually curious: You learn unfamiliar domains quickly, synthesize information well, and move comfortably across technical, commercial, and operational problems.
• Technically literate: You're comfortable with software, systems, data, and tooling, and use AI to amplify your output.
• An excellent verbal and written communicator: You communicate clearly, concisely, and credibly with executives, engineers, candidates, customers, and partners.
• Low ego: You care more about the outcome than the nature of the work. Early stage companies have both glamorous and unglamorous problems, and you're willing to solve either when it matters.

• One of the most exciting and challenging stages of a startup: AI product market fit
• A core role in a growing team
• An ambitious and caring team that sees its work as more than just a job
• A real say in the decisions that shape the company
• A hybrid workplace in Stockholm
• Access to the AI and productivity tools you need

• Customer first. We stay close to our customers' reality and use their feedback to build what truly matters and earn their lasting trust.
• Ownership. We take responsibility end to end and act proactively to pursue the most ambitious goals.
• Enjoy the ride. We build a culture where people can be themselves, have fun doing meaningful work, and celebrate wins along the way.
• Let the best ideas win. We challenge each other respectfully and judge ideas by merit, not by who said them.
• Down to earth. We are approachable, humble, and hands on, bringing both heart and mind to everything we do.

Founder: Oskar Tang

He started his first company in high school, building software, websites and chatbots for clients. After high school he worked in corporate sales. At 19 he became the youngest person on the company's best sales team and ranked highest on customer satisfaction. Toward the end of that year he started his second company, Sthlmactive, a network for founders under 30. During that time he validated a problem he had experienced as a salesman: the broken sales process. In 2026 he started BackingNordics to fix it.