Meet exceptional commercial and engineering talent in DACH.
1. What is five.degrees?
five.degrees is an exclusive platform where startup founders hire the best entrepreneurial commercial and engineering talent in DACH — fast.
- Pitch Nights: Founders pitch their roles to a highly curated group of commercial and engineering talent in 15-minute online and in-person sessions.
- Talent list: access a curated list of actively looking candidates from the latest batch.
- Job Platform: Share your role with 350+ pre-vetted candidates — both active and passive job seekers.
2. Which talents can we help you hire?
We focus on permanent, full-time commercial and engineering roles at the early-career stage.
- Roles we cover:
- Commercial roles: Founder’s Associate, Chief of Staff
- Engineering roles: Fullstack, Backend, AI and Product Engineering
- Full-time experience: 0-3 years of FT experience.
- Some talents of previous batches: Moritz Bruder (Founding Engineer @tekkr.io), Joe Mcilwaine (Product @Revolut), Ennie Ragusen (Founder’s Associate @Telli), Finn Retzlaff (Chief of Staff @Project B)
3. Companies we like to work with
We partner with startups on track to become generation-defining companies.
- Stage: Pre-seed to Series A
- Founders: Bold, ambitious visionaries we’d love to work for ourselves.
- Learning opportunity: We put talent first — working with companies that offer extraordinary, career-defining growth.
- Example companies we partnered with: Integral (Cherry, GC), Plancraft (Creandum, Headline), Cortea (Cherry).
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