Co-Founder | Head of Growth
Pubblicato il 22-10-2026 - GrantMesh in Como
Role Description This remote role as a future Co-Founder | Head of Growth & Marketing at GrantMesh focuses on building and scaling a SaaS platform for Erasmus+ and EU grants. The position involves designing and executing growth strategies, including user acquisition, activation, and retention across digital channels. Day-to-day responsibilities include conducting market and competitor research, developing and testing marketing campaigns, and building sales pipelines with universities, NGOs, and other eligible organizations. The role also includes managing communication with early adopters, gathering product feedback, and collaborating closely with product and technical partners to refine the value proposition. The intern will help define pricing, track key growth metrics, prepare investor or grant materials, and support strategic partnerships to accelerate platform adoption. Qualifications
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data, define growth experiments, and measure performance.
• Effective communication skills for clear messaging to partners, users, and internal stakeholders.
• Sales skills to build pipelines, conduct outreach, and convert leads within the Erasmus+ / EU funding ecosystem.
• Marketing skills to design and execute digital campaigns, content initiatives, and growth strategies.
• Research skills to understand grant programs, user needs, competitive landscape, and market trends.
• Interest in Erasmus+, EU grants, or public funding mechanisms; prior exposure is a plus.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, early-stage startup environment and take initiative.
• Experience or education in business, economics, marketing, international relations, or a related field is advantageous. Equity-only founding role until our first funding round. Please read this before applying. ABOUT GRANTMESH GrantMesh is the all-in-one platform for European organisations running Erasmus+, ESC, Horizon and other EU grant programmes. NGOs and SMEs use it to coordinate partners, documents,
tasks, budgets and deadlines in one workspace, from writing the proposal to final reporting. The product is built and running. The team today is two founders, a CEO and a CTO. We are missing the third: the person who owns go-to-market. THE ROLE You will be the founding team member responsible for getting GrantMesh into the hands of the organisations that need it. You own positioning, channels, pipeline and the first customers, and you take part in every company decision. WHAT YOU WILL DO
• Define who we sell to first (coordinators, NGOs, SMEs, consultancies) and why they buy
• Build and run the go-to-market plan: positioning, pricing input, launch, channels
• Bring in the first paying organisations through your network, communities, partnerships and content
• Build partnerships with umbrella networks, consultancies and training providers
• Run demos and early sales conversations yourself, and feed what you hear back into the product
• Set up the basics: CRM, funnel metrics, content and LinkedIn presence WHAT YOU BRING
• Hands-on Erasmus+
experience:
you have written, coordinated or managed projects (KA1/KA2 or similar) and know how consortia, National Agencies and reporting really work
• A real network in the EU projects world
• Go-to-market experience with a B2B product, ideally SaaS, from zero to first customers
• Willingness to do the work yourself: writing, outreach, demos, analytics
• Professional English; other European languages are a plus
• At least 15-20 hours a week
WHAT WE OFFER
• Founding equity of 5–10%, vesting over 4 years with a 1-year cliff. Final share depends on experience and commitment, with room to grow if the role becomes full-time after funding
• Co-founder status and a real voice in strategy
• A salary once we close funding
• Remote, within European time zones (CET ±2)
HOW TO APPLY
Apply here. In your CV or a message, tell us about one Erasmus+ project you worked on and one product or campaign you took to market, with results.