Co-Founder / Sales / Finance

We’re looking for a Co-Founder for Cordango, focused mainly on Sales and Finance.

Cordango is a platform for building business software with AI, without creating another collection of disconnected SaaS tools, isolated databases and Shadow IT.

Apps run on a shared company foundation for users, permissions, audit, integrations and data. Companies can build software that actually fits their processes while keeping control of the overall environment.

The product exists, the technical foundation is there, and now we’re looking for someone who wants to build something lasting.

The role is primarily commercial.

Your world should be:

• Sales
• Customer conversations
• Building and managing the sales pipeline
• Turning interest into actual customers
• Commercial partnerships
• Pricing and commercial models
• Finance, forecasting, budgeting and cash planning
• Understanding the numbers well enough to know what we can and cannot do

Go-to-market, company strategy, fundraising and the bigger decisions are founder topics. We do those together.

We’re looking for a fairly specific kind of person. Someone experienced, grounded and pragmatic.

Someone who understands that building a company can be extremely ambitious without turning into startup theatre, 3am Slack messages and pretending nobody has a life outside work.

Ideally, you have a family yourself or at least genuinely understand what family responsibility means.

Kids get sick. Partners have careers. Mortgages exist. Sometimes somebody has to pick a child up from school. That is not a lack of ambition.

We want to build a serious company, but we also want to build one where being an adult with responsibilities is considered normal.

You should understand the German business world very well and be completely comfortable talking to customers, negotiating and selling in German.

At the same time, your English needs to be fluent. Cordango starts in Germany, but the ambition definitely does not end there.

Location matters, but not in the usual way.

We’re based near Bochum.

We will not have an office to begin with and we have no interest in forcing people into one just because that is what companies are supposed to do. Remote is completely fine. But we do think a co-founder relationship works better when meeting in person does not require a flight, hotel and three weeks of calendar coordination.

So you should live within reasonable commuting distance of Bochum and the Ruhr area.

We do not particularly care about a specific degree, a perfect CV or whether you have already had “Founder” in your LinkedIn headline.

We care about whether you understand sales and business, know your numbers, can challenge assumptions without turning every disagreement into politics, and can be relied on.

Someone who can sit with a German Mittelstand customer and understand what actually matters to them.

Someone who knows that sales is not just sending 500 automated LinkedIn messages.

And someone who actually wants to build something lasting.

If that sounds like you, or you immediately thought of somebody while reading this, send us a message.

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