Founder Associate

Founder Associate
Milan · Full-time, on-site · Italian required

Why Livia exists
Italians have put everything into their homes: the savings of two generations, their identity, their children's future. No country loves the home more. And no country administers it worse.

Most of us live in a condominium. You can track a €10 pizza in real time on your phone, but your building's €200,000 budget disappears once a year into an unreadable PDF. You call, and nobody answers. The leak becomes a stain, and the stain becomes a dispute. In the end, nobody is accountable.

The real monopolist in this market isn't any administrator. It's resignation: 'tanto è così.' Livia exists to revoke this mandate.

What we're building
Livia is building the operating system for residential living, and we are running it ourselves.

We don't sell software to administrators. We are the administrator, and we build the technology that powers us from the ground up. That lets us make promises no one else in the market makes: every euro visible in real time, no kickbacks from contractors, an answer within one hour on emergencies, and a full refund if a building isn't satisfied in the first year.

Underneath, we're building something harder to see: the deepest context layer on Italian buildings. Every repair request, contractor job, assembly decision, and resident conversation becomes structured knowledge. When a pipe leaks, our system knows which pipes are in the wall and which plumber last worked on them. The better the context, the better the AI; the better the AI, the more buildings run proactively rather than reactively. That compounding context is our moat, and it's why we're rebuilding the data architecture from scratch instead of bolting AI onto legacy tools, as incumbents are now trying to do.

But property management is a trust business, and AI can't take responsibility. So our administrators become what they should always have been: dedicated people who know their buildings, run assemblies well, and put their name on every decision, while software handles the groundwork.

We grow by integrating established administration firms. We welcome their teams and expertise and give them better processes and tools. The best administrators in Milan will be with us.

We're backed by Italian Founders Fund, Vento, 2100, and leading Italian families and angels. The market has thousands of fragmented firms and no reference company yet. We intend to become the alternative and fix the world's oldest asset class.

The Role
As Founder Associate, you'll work directly with our founders, Alessandro and Matthias, on whatever matters most right now. Each problem is yours to take on, understand, solve, and hand over in working order, running without you.

You can't list everything a Founder Associate does, because you might be asked to help on almost anything. The role shapes itself around your strengths and is designed for someone who wants to lead a part of Livia, or one day found a company of their own.

How We Work
Livia is not a typical Italian company, and this is not a typical Italian job.

We're a team of internationals and Italians who left, built careers at some of the world's fastest-growing startups and unicorns, and came back. We brought that playbook home: high standards, fast decisions, radical ownership, and an intensity that doesn't exist in Italy.

We believe Milan can become a startup ecosystem that rivals London, Paris, or Berlin, and we intend to help build it. That means proving that a world-class company can be built here, with homegrown and international talent, in one of the most traditional industries in the country.

Here's what that looks like day to day:

We move fast. Decisions take days, not months. What you propose on Monday can be live the same day.

We hold a high bar. We expect excellent work, and we tell each other directly when something falls short, including the founders.

We own outcomes, not tasks. "I did my part" isn't the finish line; the problem solved is.

We work hard, on purpose. Building a category-defining company takes real commitment, especially in these early years. We protect what matters (health, rest, the people you love), but we won't pretend this is an easy job.

We're looking for people who want to do their life's work. If that's not you right now, that's completely fine. It just means Livia isn't the right place for you.

What You'll Work On
Acquisitions and integration. Source and evaluate administration firms, build valuation models, run due diligence, negotiate alongs