Founder for WorkFlex SOS (German speaker)
Ready to build a category-defining product from the ground up? Lead WorkFlex SOS with founder-level ownership and turn a bold MVP into the global standard for corporate travel health and safety.
🌍 About WorkFlex SOS
In today’s world, geopolitical conflicts, natural disasters, and health crises are redefining what it means to keep employees safe when they travel abroad. Companies face growing duty-of-care and compliance challenges when their people travel, and they lack the tools to manage them effectively.
WorkFlex is one of the fastest growing HR-Tech start-ups and is already supporting over 500+ clients to manage compliance when employees travel abroad.
WorkFlex SOS is our bold new bet: a comprehensive Health & Safety platform for global workforces. From medical emergencies to evacuation coordination, risk alerts, and 24/7 assistance, we’re building the future of duty-of-care - directly integrated into the trusted WorkFlex ecosystem.
We’re looking for someone who acts as a Founder for WorkFlex SOS. Someone with the drive, urgency, and ownership of a true entrepreneur to take this product from MVP to €100m ARR and beyond. When you start your title will be Lead WorkFlex SOS.
🚀 Your mission
You’ll have full P&L responsibility for WorkFlex SOS and the freedom to shape strategy, product, and go-to-market. You’ll leverage everything WorkFlex already offers: 100+ employees, 500+ enterprise customers, an established brand, a sales force of 30, and capital to scale - while building a world-class business from the ground up.
Your goal: transform WorkFlex SOS into the global authority for corporate travel health and safety.
🎯 In this role, you will:
Own the vision & strategy: Define the long-term product and commercial roadmap for WorkFlex SOS in line with the company growth strategy
Build & lead: Lead a cross-functional core team (initially 1 PM, 5 engineers, 5 external partners, go-to-market teams). Recruit, coach, and inspire a multidisciplinary team as the business scales.
Execute like a founder: Move fast, test relentlessly, and iterate based on data and customer feedback.
Leverage the WorkFlex platform: Utilize our infrastructure, go-to-market teams, compliance expertise, and funding to accelerate growth.
Scale impact: Establish the product as the industry benchmark for health & safety management in global mobility. Grow the business to €100 M ARR and beyond.
⭐ You are:
- Entrepreneur at heart: You thrive on risk, ownership, and building something from the ground up.
- Relentless executor: You turn ideas into results - fast, focused, and hands-on. You also combine hard work with discipline to push through challenges.
- Compelling storyteller: You can inspire teams, investors, and customers with a clear and authentic vision.
- Experience: You have 5+ years of work experience and have already built something up from 0 to 1 whether as Founder, Management Consultant or within a company.
- Bilingual communicator: Fluent in English and German.
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🚀 Why Join Us At WorkFlex
- Founder-level autonomy with full ownership over P&L, strategy, and execution.
- Massive head start with WorkFlex’s existing products, clients, team, and capital.
- Real impact to build Europe’s next category-defining safety & compliance platform.
- Equity upside in form of VSOPs.
- A monthly budget of €200 to spend on 🏢 co-working space and/or 🏃♀️ sports subscriptions.
- Work from anywhere in a remote-only company and go on workations for up to 183 days a year.
- Merit-based culture with substantial growth opportunities.
- Trust-based work – organize your own schedule. We want to celebrate results, not hours spent working.
- Collaborative team culture where everyone's input is valued to shape the sales efforts, approaches, and processes.
If you’ve ever dreamed of building your own company with the backing, capital, and infrastructure of one that’s already thriving this is your moment.
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- Product
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
About WorkFlex
Founded in 2021, WorkFlex was created to transform how companies manage international travel compliance. Instead of relying on expensive legal consultations and slow processes, our platform makes it easy to stay compliant across business travel, remote work, and expat scenarios – automated, scalable, and stress-free.
Today, over 100,000 trips are processed annually on WorkFlex, and our team continues to grow globally. We’re proud to support 500+ companies including BioNTech, Vodafone, dm, Flix, and Scout24 – and we’re just getting started.