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Hire your right hand in days, not months.
Skip the noise. Access pre-vetted Generalists, Chiefs of Staff, and Founder’s Associates ready to build.
"Accessing Dominik's network allowed us to pitch our company to a group of vetted candidates who were all strong. From start to finish, it took us about 3 weeks, perfect pace. We've already promoted the FA we hired."
"The quality of the pool is insane. Every candidate we interviewed via Generalyst was much better than the ones from our own funnel. 3 out of 3 launchers we hired were part of the program."
"Generalyst provides an awesome way to present what you‘re working on in front of a pool of high-caliber candidates, receive resumes when there’s a potential fit, and take it from there. Can definitely recommend to anyone looking for skilled FA / Exec Ops."
"We needed entrepreneurial generalists to launch new markets. Generalyst had the exact right profiles, and we've already hired two of them."
of candidates who apply are accepted into the program, allowing you to skip tedious screening and only talk to A+ operators.
vetted generalists with a track record of excellence, looking for an opportunity right now. Many of them never appear on the open market.
to first introductions to candidates. Because every day matters when you're building.
Hiring built by founders, for founders.
Agencies are expensive. Job boards are noisy. We combined the vetting quality of a headhunter with the speed of a tech platform – the product we would've needed as founders and scale-up operators.
Your first operator.
Your first commercial hires shouldn't be specialists. We connect you with high agency operators with a track record of excellence, ready to leverage you as Founder's Associate.
The top 5% of the market.
We screen thousands of applicants so you don't have to. You skip the noise and get immediate access to a pre-vetted shortlist of builders.
Days, not months.
Vacant roles kill momentum. With a 14-day average time-to-hire, we replace endless interview loops with signed offers.
Agency & ownership.
Startups don't need people who follow orders, they need people who take ownership, regardless of the challenge. Our operators thrive where job descriptions end.
Cross-functional operators.
As companies begin scaling, problems pop up everywhere. We help you find operators who run your strategic projects as Chief of Staff, build your GTM motion as Commercial Associates, or simply leverage you as Founder's Associate.
The top 5% of the market.
We screen thousands of applicants so you don't have to. You skip the noise and get immediate access to a pre-vetted shortlist of builders.
Speed over bureaucracy.
Vacant roles kill momentum. With a 14-day average time-to-hire, we replace endless interview loops with signed offers.
Agency & ownership.
Startups don't need people who follow orders, they need people who take ownership, regardless of the challenge. Our operators thrive where job descriptions end.
Expand your business.
Launching new countries and initiatives requires entrepreneurial thinking. We've opened plenty of markets ourselves, and help you find the right operators to build functions from zero to one.
The top 5% of the market.
We screen thousands of applicants so you don't have to. You skip the noise and get immediate access to a pre-vetted shortlist of builders.
Speed over bureaucracy.
Vacant roles kill momentum. With a 14-day average time-to-hire, we replace endless interview loops with signed offers.
Agency & ownership.
Startups don't need people who follow orders, they need people who take ownership, regardless of the challenge. Our operators thrive where job descriptions end.
Pitch your company, get access to operators
After a brief scoping call, we invite you to pitch to the Generalyst candidate pool online – pre-vetted by us in a 2-step interview process. All candidates are scored on track record of excellence, high agency, clarity of communication, and bias for action.
Most pitches have 10-30 attendees, highly curated.
Receive highly relevant profiles in 24h
After the pitch, we send you all profiles of candidates that expressed their interest in working with you. We'll throw in a few additional ones that we believe are a great fit.
You choose whom to interview.
Hire in record time
Run your process as usual. Maybe skip the initial screen. Most candidates are available ASAP and could technically start tomorrow.
If you hire within less than 2 weeks, we'll give you a discount, too.
Receive a steady supply of new candidates
Based on our first interview cycle, we get a pretty good idea of what you like and what you don't. We'll ping you when we accept an exceptional candidate that we feel would be a great fit. You can always say no.
Real results. Zero fluff.
Hear from the founders and VCs who scaled their operations with Generalyst talent.
"We're expanding aggressively internationally. Via Generalyst, we found a few good former entrepreneurs that can help us get the business off the ground in our new markets."
"Dominik made the hiring process with Generalyst very smooth from beginning to end. It‘s an awesome way to present what you‘re working on in front of a pool of high-caliber candidates, receive resumes when there’s a potential fit, and take it from there. Can definitely recommend to anyone looking for skilled Founder‘s Associate‘s / Exec Ops."
"For our first cohort of country launchers, we worked with Generalyst. 3 out of 3 that eventually started at Feather were part of the program. The candidate quality was insane, much better than anyone we had in our funnel. Made one hire within 8 days.
We've gone back to them since for more hires."
"Dominik was a great help for us to find a truly talented and hardworking Founders' Associate. Accessing Dominik's network allowed us to pitch our company to a group of vetted candidates who were all strong. From start to finish, it took us about 3 weeks, perfect pace! We can highly recommend Generalyst and are already using his services again!"
"Very professional collaboration. We hired a top Founder's Associate within 4 weeks. Already recommended Generalyst to a few companies."
"Generalyst has been extremely efficient in directing me with the right person to work with according to my needs. He introduced me with Francesco and less than a week later we started working together and now I wouldn't know how I would have managed my startup without him. Such a great experience! I would recommend Dominik to whoever needs startup hire."
A better way to hire startup operators
We took our own objections to current headhunters and job boards, addressed them, and built something better: Generalyst.
How we select our candidates.
Hiring Generalists is different: in most roles (sales, engineering), you can use skill-based assessments. For Generalists, this doesn't work: they're specialists in meta skills. This is what we look for instead:
Track Record of Excellence
How you do anything is how you do everything. We look for people with outstanding performance in all walks of life – regardless whether it's on the sport field, in academia, in their career, in the opera house, or anywhere else.
High Agency
Our candidates get shit done. They ask for forgiveness rather than permission. And ideally, you'd call them to break you out of a third-world jail cell. Because they're the most resourceful person you know.
Clarity of Communication
Startups are inherently messy. We look for people who can express themselves clearly and concisely – orally and written. The greatest thinkers in the world are all prolific writers. And good writing = good communication.
Bias for Action
Average people do what you tell them to. Great people do what needs to be done before anyone tells them.
The Generalyst Manifesto.
You can't expect non-linear results from linear people. We believe that the future belongs to generalists, to the ones that build a broad foundation before specializing.
The right hire for every stage.
Multiply your bandwidth.
Stop doing everything yourself. Start doing the things that matter. And get yourself a Founder's Associate to leverage you.
"Between launching a podcast, running a venture studio, and angel investing, I was doing too many things. So I hired a Founder's Associate to take on part of my work – and am now able to focus on what truly matters."
20+
Hours reclaimed per week
Build systems instead of managing chaos.
Step away from "Founder Mode", and put the right people into the right places to build systems. So you can focus on working on the business, instead of in the business. Hire a Commercial Associate to build your GTM, and a Chief of Staff to orchestrate everything.
"We hired a Founder's Associate and quickly realized that he's capable of much more. Now, he's our Tech Lead and owns a bunch of strategic projects for us."
10+
Strategic projects owned
Expand aggressively.
Get out of your home market. Onto new shores. And hire a team of entrepreneurs that know the market better than you ever could.
"We needed to launch new markets fast. Generalyst helped us find the right entrepreneurs to get this off the ground, quickly."
2
Country Launchers hired within 4 weeks
Agency quality. Platform pricing.
Hiring via job boards takes months. Traditional headhunters charge 25-35%. We built a business model that combines curated talent with a fast, success-based model. No retainers, no hidden costs. We believe one should only capture value where value is created.
18%
success fee, only if you hire.
- No upfront costs (free access to pool)
- Unlimited interview requests
- Pay only when you sign a contract
- 15% if you make an offer within 2 weeks
Still in pre-seed or bootstrapped?
FAQ
Got questions? We have answers. Everything you need to know about the process, the startups, and how we fast-track your career.
We work with commercial generalists with a broad range of experience – from recent graduate to former entrepreneurs.
All candidates have a business background; most have worked either in a start-up/scale-up or in PE, VC, or consulting.
We believe soft skills matter more than hard skills. Those are often found in non-linear CVs. Because you can't expect non-linear results from linear people.
For more, read our manifesto.
We mostly work with companies in DACH, specifically in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna.
~50% of candidates in the pool are geographically flexible – so if you're not based in one of those three cities, let's talk anyway. We might still be able to help you, even if the experience isn't going to be as mind-blowing.
Our existing clients pay full price, so we don't really do arbitrary discounts – that would be unfair to them.
That being said, there are 2 ways for you to pay less:
- We believe in aligned incentives. The biggest predictor for success is a fast hiring process. So if you make an offer within 14 days of the first screening interview with a candidate, the success fee is reduced to 15% of first-year salary.
- If you haven't raised a seed round yet (meaning you're bootstrapping, haven't raised at all, or just a pre-seed), we're happy to craft an individual offer for you. Just email us at dominik@generalyst.de.
The 18% are applied to the first-year base salary. Variable salaries, bonuses, and equity are not considered. The price excludes VAT (in case that's not self-explanatory).
No. Part of the reason why we can offer the business model that we have is precisely because we don't do active sourcing.
If you need a highly specific hire (eg. a Head of Sales with 10+ years of experience in D2C platforms), we're happy to recommend partner agencies that do this better than we can.
Try running an ad on LinkedIn right now. Within days, your inbox will be flooded with applications – 90% of them unqualified.
It'll take you hours on end to sift through these, just to have a candidate fall through at the end.
With Generalyst, you skip all that and get to speak to 6-8 high-signal candidates, vetted for your requirements, most ready to go ASAP.
Use your time to make things people want instead, and leave the dirty work to us.
Yes! In fact, we recently launched our internship program. Its landing page is currently under construction, but here's the TL;DR:
- We constantly source and screen interns, and pick the ones we believe are the best fit for startups.
- You get access to the database and tell us which profiles you like.
- We set up the first interview with those candidates for you.
- Whenever a new candidate gets in that we believe would be a fit for you, we ping you.
- You only pay if you hire an intern.
Sound fair? Reach out to cesca@generalyst.de to learn more.
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Skip upfront fees and job marketplace noise. Find signal instead, risk-free. Access a curated pool of pre-vetted Generalists and fill your key roles in record time. We get you in front of candidates in a matter of days.
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