Founding Business Lead - Paris

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• Role: Sales
• Experience: 3+ years
• Visa: US citizenship/visa not required

The role

Working directly with the founders, you will be trusted with a nascent business unit and do the work with full execution autonomy – sales calls, marketing campaigns, customer support and gradual operations automation.

Specifically, you will:

• Learn by doing – build your pipeline, take calls, ensure proper service / product delivery and customer satisfaction

• Build systems – create templates from first principles, document edge cases, structure feedback from the ground into usable data and insights, iterate into workflows that scale

• Automate – use Claude Code or Codex and work with technical staff to lift bottlenecks

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Requirements

• High agency and ownership mentality

• Tasteful and able to judge independently from consensus or AI slop

• Located in Paris, fluency in French and English required

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Nice to have

• Academic excellence

• 2 – 5 years of experience in corporate insurance or reinsurance

• 2 – 5 years of experience in high-paced environments: management consulting, finance, venture-backed tech companies

• Demonstrated track-record in client-facing positions and/or revenue generation in a B2B environment

• Demonstrated track-record using AI tools

Source: Y Combinator job 118781. Listed on YC when retrieved 2026-11-02.