Executive Consultant (inhouse) (m/f/d)

NOW HIRING · FULL-TIME · COLOGNE · 2 SEATS Executive Consultant (Office of the CEO) (m/f/d) The better founder job: real problems, real data, real decisions, without chasing funding or first customers. Every day next to our co-CEO. ● Cologne, five days a week in the office ● Full-time ● Start: as soon as you can Customers, products, production and data already exist here. The missing piece: people who turn open questions into decisions, one after the other. About the role Our co-founder and co-CEO Philipp Muehlbauer listed everything that lands on his desk: far too much for one person. So he is opening two seats next to him. You work on what matters most to the group right now, from a pricing test to an acquisition. In 2004 our founders flew to the Canton Fair in China. No plan B, no investors. Today The Customization Group is a global leader in mass customization and print-on-demand e-commerce: up to 2.5 million personalized products a day, made in Germany, Poland, the USA and Latvia, sold B2C, B2B and B2B2C through 20+ own shops and 1,000+ partner stores. 750+ people, 40+ nationalities. In a nutshell: Take the CEO's open questions, get the data, test, decide and see it through. Then the next one. At a glance Location: Cologne, five days a week in the office Team: Office of the CEO · with Philipp Muehlbauer, co-CEO Scope: Strategy · data · experiments · transformation · investments & M&A Experience: Fresh from university, or from consulting, M&A, PE or a scale-up Language: English. German is not required Start: As soon as you can The work What you'll do → Close open questions. Take an opportunity or challenge from the CEO's desk, size it and drive it to a decision. Then the next one. → Go to the data yourself. Shops, marketing, production, finance. Where access is missing, you build it. → Test before scaling. Experiments in pricing, assortment, marketing or operations. You read the results and decide the next step with the CEO. → Prepare investments and M&A. Screen targets, build the case, run the numbers. → Carry change into the business. With the teams who own the result, until it shows in their numbers. → Build with AI. Analyses, research and prototypes with the CEO's AI setup, which you improve as you go. What you bring Must have → An analytical degree and first experience in strategy consulting, M&A, private equity or a scale-up, or internships of that kind. → You build and check your own numbers. → AI is your daily tool, and you can show us something you built with it. → You turn analysis into a decision, on one page rather than in a deck. → Fluent English, our working language. Nice to have → E-commerce sense: unit economics, conversion, marketplaces. → Online or performance marketing experience. → SQL or Python. Why this role, now Scope A founder's agenda, minus the fundraising Pricing, markets, operations, acquisitions: the whole group is your scope, not one function. B2C · B2B · B2B2C AI An AI setup that already runs The CEO has spent six months sharpening it. You use it from day one and make it better. Agents · analysis · prototypes Decisions Decisions, not decks You sit next to the person who decides. You prepare the calls and see them through. Test · transform · invest · acquire Is this you? Sounds like you? → You pick up problems unasked and stay until they're solved. → You'd rather check the data than win the argument. → You've thought about founding a company, and you want the problems more than the paperwork. → You get into a new topic fast: pricing on Monday, production on Thursday. Probably not a fit if… → you want a predictable rhythm. The pace follows the CEO's agenda, and some weeks are intense. → you want to lead a team soon. This role is about learning fast. → your best output is a polished deck. Here a result counts once it's live. → you want to work remotely. The work happens at the CEO's desk. Compensation & benefits → AI tools — whatever you need, paid → Free breakfast & lunch — in the office, several times a week → Meal allowance — up to €7.50 per working day → Urban Sports Club or €50 vouchers — your pick, every month → Deutschlandticket — TCG pays one third → JobRad — bike leasing after probation Show us how you think No cover letter. Send your CV and one page instead. → Pick one of our shops or products. Find one opportunity or problem worth solving. → Size it. Any data you can find, any AI tool you like. → Tell us what you'd test first. And what would make you stop. One page or a two-minute recording. It doesn't need to be polished. Two seats. Applying takes about 10 minutes, plus your one page. The Customization Group · Picanova GmbH · Cologne · thecustomizationgroup.com We welcome applications from every background.