Chief of Staff, Upvest
+ Employee equity program
3 days a week in office
Investment API
Be an early applicant
Investment API
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Employee equity program
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Upvest's mission is to make investing as easy as spending money and to enable businesses to build investment experiences their customers love.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 3+ years of experience in consulting, investment banking, private equity, or high-growth scale-ups, with exposure to strategic, commercial, and operational challenges
- Industry exposure: You are passionate for investments, securities trading, or SaaS/infrastructure business models (e.g., BaaS)
- Stakeholder management: You showcase exceptional leadership and communications skills, effectively engaging internal and external stakeholders to drive change
- Project management: You proactively drive complex projects to successful outcomes while making execution efficient and straightforward for others
- Operational & business acumen: You are comfortable with financial data (budget), governance processes (OKR/KPI), and scalable organisational design
- Mindset: You thrive in ambiguity, act with ownership and enthusiastically take the initiative to drive improvements. You are eager to learn, highly productive and solve problems with a bias to action and attention to detail
- Location: Preference for candidates located in Berlin, fluent in English and German (written and verbal)
What the job involves
- As Chief of Staff, you will be at the core of Upvest’s strategic engine - driving clarity, alignment and focus across the organisation
- You’ll partner with leadership to shape strategy, translate it into action, and ensure the business operates effectively at scale
- With over 270 talented professionals on our team and continued growth in product, markets, and client reach, it’s essential to maintain a sharp focus, make strategic decisions, and set clear priorities
- You will be the driving force in the development and execution of our organisational strategy
- You will own the OKR process, link our OKRs with core business KPIs, and collaborate across teams to ensure cohesive decision-making and strategic prioritisation
- You will liaise with our executive and senior management team, become a trusted partner and organise regular offsites and team meetings
- Via your leadership and stakeholder management, Upvest is an effective and efficient organisation
- Additionally, you’ll play a central role in shaping and delivering our internal communications strategy including leading our company all-hands
- Upvest’s Investment API is redefining how Europe invests
- As we scale, maintaining strategic focus is essential
- You will play a vital part in shaping and executing our strategy - from initial conceptualization to prioritisation, execution and communication of key initiatives
- You will manage large, cross-functional projects and support the development of new growth opportunities such as international expansion and uncovering new business opportunities
- You will also play a key role in our investor relations - working closely with the CEO on our fundraising efforts and regular board meetings
- As Chief of Staff, you will champion Upvest’s culture and values
- You enjoy taking your colleagues on to the ride - engaging them in our all-hands presentations, shaping our internal communications and collaborating cross-functionally to drive outcomes
- You enjoy the wide exposure across our business, contributing to high-impact projects alongside senior leadership
Our take
Upvest is a fintech startup that empowers financial services companies to provide their customers with access to a full range of financial assets, including stocks, ETFs and crypto products. Upvest's investment API integrates seamlessly with its customers existing systems and is designed to scale easily, freeing companies from the need to develop their own brokerage and custody infrastructure from scratch.
As one of the few companies in Germany that is licensed for both the custody of traditional securities and crypto, Upvest is able to provide its services across Europe. Its solution has been readily adopted by some major players in the space including Ginmon, Vivid and ABN AMRO.
Upvest is backed by a number of Europe's largest tech VCs (Earlybird, Notion Capital, Partech, HV Capital, ABN AMRO Ventures) alongside American investment monolith BlackRock. In 2023, it closed a VC investment round, which the company has claimed is one of the largest in the German fintech arena. This was followed up by an impressive Series C at the end of 2024, which is being used to grow its team, enhance its product and cement its presence in the UK.
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Dec 2024
$105.1m
SERIES C
Oct 2023
$31.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $199.8m
Company benefits
- Greenfield projects - We’re building something quite complex. A first in Europe. This means you get to work with cutting-edge technologies, with no legacy code.
- Wellbeing - Everyone here has access to our in-house coach. You can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally. We also believe it’s important to have time out to rest and recover, which is why we offer 30 days’ holiday.
- Development - In keeping with one of our values, ‘Learn and grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. And in line with one of our other values, ‘Own the outcome’, how you make the most of it is up to you.
- Flexibility - We work in a hybrid set-up, with the team spread around Germany and other parts of Europe. We give you the choice and budget to work where you’re most comfortable and productive, either at home or in the office. You choose.
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Martin Kassing
(Founder & CEO)They have experience in fintech, private equity and capital markets. Founded another fintech, Shop.co, which was acquired by Klarna.
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