VP Associate

You'll be the person our VP of Property Management calls when a portfolio company's margins need to go from 5% to 35%, when an acquisition needs due diligence by Friday, or when a regulatory change hits and someone needs to own the response. This is the hardest job on the Ops team and the fastest path to running your own business unit at Buena.

What you'll do

• Run the numbers on acquisitions. Analyze P&Ls, model unit economics, and support due diligence for new portfolio companies.
• Drive integration on the ground. Work with site leads to move portfolio companies onto Buena's platform. Professionalize processes. Fix what's broken. Improve margins.
• Find new revenue. Evaluate adjacent opportunities: insurance, brokerage, energy and model whether they're worth building.
• Own projects end-to-end. Regulatory compliance, recruiting at portfolio companies, operational firefighting. If it matters and it's cross-functional, it's yours.

What you'll need

• Fluent German: C2 or native. This is a German-language operating environment.
• Based in Berlin, willing to travel regularly to portfolio companies across Germany.
• Professional experience in consulting, operations, finance, or a startup environment.
• Comfortable with P&Ls, financial modeling, and working under pressure.
• High ownership mentality. You don't wait to be told what to do.

Nice to have

• Property management or real estate background.
• Post-merger integration experience.
• Familiarity with software rollouts.

What they offer

• Direct Leadership Team access with full decision-making autonomy.
• Career trajectory into senior leadership positions in Banking, Insurance, and Brokerage as Buena scales.
• Top-tier compensation including virtual stock options and €500/month housing allowance.
• €110/month lunch budget, €50 fitness subsidy, daily breakfast, and specialty coffee at office.