early roles / 12th january
bi-weekly roundup of interesting roles at early stage companies in Europe, + who I'm looking to meet with (is it you?)
Welcome to 2026!
Here’s my roundup of interesting roles at early stage startups in Europe that have come on my radar over the past week.
If you’d like to submit a role, fill in this form
Who I’m Looking to Meet
I’m Ben. I work with early-stage founders on people, talent, culture, and hiring. Mostly this is through my role as a Venture Partner at Ada Ventures (a London-based inclusive pre-seed fund), but I always have a number of side-projects going on.
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of who I’m looking to meet with at the moment:
Drop me a note on LinkedIn, or reply to this email if I’m describing you, or you’d like to recommend someone excellent for me to meet.
Product Designers
who are technical (and want lots of ownership as the first design hire in mission-driven, early stage startups)Full-Stack Engineers
who are super smart + can ship ship ship(Future) Founders
If you’re serious about founding a business in the UK over the next 6 months, or are raising a pre-seed in the UK, I’d love to hear about what you’re buildingGTM/Growth Leads
I’m working with a pre-seed startup to help them hire their Founding Growth Lead. They’re well capitalised and building something great in AI + FinOps space.
If you intro me to someone great who gets hired, I’ve got something for you.Commercial GTM Leaders with experience in logistics/supply chain
5+ years experience in sales/GTM roles, with exposure/network within logistics, warehousing, or other supply chain software or hardwareGTM/Commercial Leads with experience/network working with Local Authorities / Local Governments in the UK
Superconnectors in the early-stage ecosystem
Someone who knows amazing people and connects them to the right opportunities.
Click here to apply
Technical
Spill are hiring for two roles:
- Senior Product Engineer
- Lead Backend Engineer
London
Feasibly - Founding Engineer
London
Applications close 16th January
onFabric - Founding AI Engineer
London
Asterix Health are hiring for two roles:
- Founding AI/Product Engineer
- Founding AI Clinical Product Engineer
London
Ballpoint - Data Engineer
London
Tracebit - Founding Customer Success Engineer
London
Minimal - Full-Stack Developer
Amsterdam
Saturn - AI Engineer
London
luna - Senior Engineer
London
Non-Technical
Gizmo - Founding Product Designer
London
Plinth - Partnerships Exec
London
Aegiss - International Tax Specialist
Edinburgh
NB: This is a very early role with a company building in the AI + Tax space. You’ll be focussed on bringing your domain expertise to shape + build a generational product.
Unreal Labs - Founding Product Designer
London
Atarim - Lead Product Designer
London
Hera - Founding Product Designer
Berlin
Corgi - Founding BDR
London
Souk - Growth Marketing
London
Ballpoint - Fractional Head of Growth
London
Cortea - Founding Marketing Lead
Berlin
Granola - Growth Marketing Lead
London
Perlon AI - Founding AE
London
Wilgot - Founding AE
London
Empathy - Founding AE
London
Conduct - Founding AE
London
Telli - Founding BDR
Berlin
Zango - Founding GTM Lead
London
Macadamia - Founding GTM Lead
Ghent
Helical - Chief of Staff
London; Luxembourg
Future Château - Founders Exec
London
Dolar App - Founders’ Office
London
Melotech - Founders Associate
Remote
MAGIC AI - Founder’s Associate
London
Brickwise - Founder’s Associate
London
Asterix Health - Founder’s Associate
London
Ralio - Founder Associate
London
Magic Memories - Founder’s Associate
London
Lua AI - Founder Associate
London
Linda AI - Founders Associate
London
Physiofit - Founders Associate
Munich
Bitstack - Founders Associate
Paris
Atarim - Ops Lead
UK (remote)
Brickwise - Ops Lead
London
Some roles from our friends over at Jack & Jill
These roles are on Jack & Jill - the AI Super-Recruiters (an Ada Ventures Portfolio Company).
To apply, you’ll need to talk to Jack. Jack is an AI-agent who works with you to find what you’re truly looking for, without having to speak to 100 different recruiters.
Founders and Hiring Managers recruit directly from Jack’s network to make hires super fast.
If your profile is a fit and the hiring manager wants to meet you - the intro gets made straight to your inbox.
Hook - Ops Associate
London
HealthTech SaaS - Fullstack Engineer
London
EdTech - Tech Lead
London
AI Automation - Commercial Co-Founder
London