Business Generalist
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Job Description
Learning curve vs. doing curve
Jan here the COO. I dont believe in preemptive learning. What youve learned so far doesnt really matter. No one will ask you about it. How many amazing things did you learn in your second semester of university Or in 11thgrade math class Its all quickly forgotten.
I believe in doing.
What have you done Because what you will do at Buena is something no one can ever take away from you. I also believe that learning is downstream from doing. Youll be able to say that you brought a company with 10 employees from a 5% margin to 40% while increasing revenue. You wont need to say that you learned to understand financial data manage employees or sell services. Itll be implicitly clear.
I dont care what youve learned before or what you want to learn here. I leave that to the academic world. What matters to us is that youll do a lot here:
- People management including recruiting: Motivate your portcos (portfolio companies) help them achieve their goals and decide with the team lead who gets hired and when.
- Creating and improving operations and processes: Each property management company has unique characteristics that youll need to represent in professional and scalable processes.
- Product development: New features are constantly built to handle more property management tasks even more effectively in our software. You can lead such a feature from idea to deployment its first use in a portfolio company and finally its rollout across Buena.
- Property management: Here youll work handson with the largest asset class in the worldand gain insights into what to consider when purchasing your own real estate. Not the most useless knowledge to acquire.
The example with 10 employees above is just an example for the first few months. I hope that will soon be followed by other examples like negotiating a building insurance deal for 100000 units directly with Allianz CEO Oliver Bteat the Champions League final against Chelsea.
Work directly with the Leadership Team
Anyone joining us as a Business Generalist will work directly with the Leadership Team. One could say that youll learn a lot from this but as mentioned above thats secondary. Primarily working with the Leadership Team means two things:
- You can do a lot: Your direct supervisor has the autonomy to approve everything and empower you to act quickly. To get a better understanding for what that means exactly ask the Business Generalists youll meet in our recruiting process about how budgets work here.
- You can grow with the company: In a few years Ill need senior execs responsible for areas like Banking Insurance Brokerage etc. I want to prepare you for this development so thateven when Buena reaches 100 million or 10 billion in revenueyou continue to report directly to the Leadership Team. Or secure their angel investment for your own startup. #PaypalMafia
Your first week at Buena
9:00 Heres your laptop; Ive assigned you a Linear project where youll find everything you need to get started.
You spend about 30 minutes reading everything you need to know beforehand.
9:34 Your first two companies are our new portfolio companies in Magdeburg and Hamburg. This afternoon youll have an initial call with each team lead. Here are two documents containing everything you need to know about the companies.
9:51 You go through the Buena software and review additional onboarding documents to get more context. This includes introductions to property management our software and materials from the last two board meetings.
11:00 You talk with Maria the Hamburg team lead. She briefly introduces her team of 8 employees. You discuss the software currently in use and plan to meet in person tomorrow. She asks if our software can generate reports as they have a major owner with 340 units (30 is the minimum revenue per unit per month) who receives a monthly report. You request a sample report. Currently these are being laboriously created in Excel. You find out that generating these reports takes half a workday each month.
12:00 Lunch break
12:45 You speak with Jakob our Product Manager to understand our progress on such reports. The sample report is a simple overview of all units occupancy status and outstanding rents. Jakob explains our previous thoughts on the matter and together you brainstorm where this function could be integrated into Buena. The result: it will take just two days of development to enable these reports at the push of a button.
14:00 You talk with Markus the Magdeburg team lead. He primarily needs help with recruiting as new units were recently added. Swift action is required heremaybe the new units can be added directly to the Buena software and managed from there
15:04 You book transport and hotels for two days in Hamburg and two days in Magdeburg.
15:41 You receive the financial data for your two companies to get an overview. Together total revenue is 1.2 million annually. Your task will be to increase the margin from 4% to 35% through the integration of Buena software and subsequent growth in units.
17:29 You talk with Anna our recruiter about the situation in Magdeburg. Shes already aware and the job posting is live. The first 10 candidates have already been contacted. Together you plan to conduct the initial interviews onsite when youre there.
18:06 You grab some food and the Ops team eats together downstairs. Most have mealprepped to save time and eat healthily.
19:00 You go over the import template. Its a .csv file which you need to fill (via scripts or copypasting) to import master data from portcos into the Buena.
20:46 You walk eight minutes home to pack your thingstomorrow youre off to Hamburg.
Hard requirements
- Native German
- Move near the office
Application process
- Brief conversation to cover the basics
- Talk with other Business Generalists
- Case study to demonstrate your approach to new problems
- Conversation with Jan (COO) about values goals and motivation
- Office tour onsite
- Meeting with Din (CEO)
- Contract signing
- Onboarding
These steps can be completed in 10 days.
Employment Type
Full Time
