Strategy Associate to the CGO

Strategy Associate to the Chief Growth Officer, sitting at the nerve center of Hive's growth engine for 6 months. You'll own problems that would normally land on a McKinsey Engagement Manager's desk—market entries, pricing architecture, GTM motion redesigns, and board-level narratives—and actually ship the answers.

What you'll do

• Own CGO-level strategic projects end-to-end: from framing the problem, to structuring the analysis, to landing the recommendation with the leadership team
• Build the models: unit economics, pricing simulations, cohort analyses, market sizings, and business cases for new market entries and product bets
• Run deep-dive analyses across our commercial funnel: pipeline health, segment performance, sales productivity, churn drivers, and turn findings into concrete interventions
• Prepare board, investor, and all-hands materials with the CGO, the kind of decks that get pressure-tested in front of Tiger Global, Earlybird, and Picus Capital
• Design and run strategic experiments with Sales, Account Management, Marketing, and Partnerships, and measure what actually moved the needle
• Synthesize competitive and market intelligence into decisions: how Hive positions against Shopify, Amazon, 3PLs, and category entrants across Europe
• Act as chief of staff to the CGO: driving the weekly operating rhythm, prioritizing the inbox and calendar, and ensuring nothing important drops

What you'll need

• A distinctive academic track record: Dean's List, scholarships, or thesis awards are strong signals
• Consulting-track pedigree: you've prepped seriously for McKinsey, BCG, or Bain interviews. You think in MECE, you're analytically ruthless in Excel, and you can structure a slide in your sleep
• Prior exposure at the highest bar: internships at MBB, top VC-backed scaleups (Trade Republic, N26, Revolut, Flix, Sennder), PE, or IB. Founder or founding-team experience is a huge plus
• Analytically ruthless, commercially sharp: you can go from a messy Metabase export to a board-ready insight in an afternoon. SQL or Python is a strong plus
• Operator instincts, not just analyst instincts: you don't stop at the recommendation; you drive execution and carry things across the finish line
• Exceptional written and verbal English (C1+); German is a strong plus
• High agency, low ego: you move fast, you ask the blunt question in the room, and you'd rather be useful than look good politically
• Available for 4-6 months starting ASAP

What they offer

• Proximity to the decision table: you'll sit in every meeting that matters, strategy, board prep, exec offsites, investor updates
• A resume line you can't buy: Founder / Strategy Associate to the CGO of one of DACH's top-scaling scaleups
• A guaranteed conversion path: top performers get a full-time offer into Strategy, BizOps, Chief of Staff, or a GTM leadership track
• Work with exceptional people: our team includes alumni from McKinsey, Amazon, Shopify, Google, TikTok, and Trade Republic
• MacBook, modern office at Alexanderplatz, 30 vacation days prorated, flexible hours, and regular team events