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Most treat them as a cost. We help brands turn them into a better customer experience, more exchanges instead of refunds, and less work for their teams.\n400+ brands run their returns on 8returns, including Tommy Hilfiger, Reebok, Fielmann and OACE. We're a small team in Berlin where everyone owns their projects end to end, with few meetings, short decision paths and direct feedback.\nThe role\nYou'll own three areas at 8returns: building partnerships, supporting sales, and planning how we enter new markets. You'll work with e-commerce merchants like the ones already on 8returns, have a lot of room to shape your work, and report directly to the founders.\nWhat you'll do\nBuild partnerships with tech & logistics partners, shop systems and agencies, and turn them into a real channel for 8returns.\n\nSupport the sales process: help open doors, prepare conversations and keep deals moving.\n\nPlan how we enter new markets, and take that work from first research to the first live partners or customers.\n\nBuild and run AI agents that research partners and markets and prepare outreach, and keep improving how they work.\n\nOwn your areas end to end. You decide what to try, run it and come back with a clear view of what worked.\n\nTalk to merchants, partners and the team to find opportunities, then turn them into a plan.\n\nLook at the numbers to see what works, and change course when something doesn't.\n\nWhat you bring\nNative German, written and spoken. 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