Founder’s Associate Intern (m/w/d)

Founder Associate Intern (m/f/d) you work directly with the CEO. You own strategic projects, prepare decisions, and ensure priorities get executed.

Lead: Frederik (CEO)

Recruiter: Victor Pels-Leusden

Contract: Internship, fixed term (6 month)

Location: Berlin

What you will do

• Strategic projects: Own growth-critical work from investor and board materials to market and competitive analyses. Consolidate company metrics, coordinate data-room updates, and track fundraising deliverables with leadership.

• Sparring partner: Prepare and structure key meetings, write crisp decision one-pagers, and follow up to closure. Manage time-sensitive priorities so the CEO can focus on strategy. Selectively maximize CEO time with key stakeholders.

• Team alignment: Keep cross-functional initiatives moving with clarity, timelines, and delivery quality. Maintain lightweight documentation, dashboards, and investor communications that make progress visible. Represent the founders in meetings when needed.

• Hands-on ownership: Pull and analyze data, build dashboards and automations, and make product ideas testable. Partner with Finance on reporting and forecasting when needed. Support hiring and onboarding. Use AI-enabled tools to remove manual work and speed up cycles.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering, Computer Science, Business/Economics, or a quant/analytical field; ideally top 20% at a top university/business school or clear evidence of excellence (e.g., honors, competitions, projects).

• 1–3 years in high-performance environments such as strategy consulting (e.g., MBB), venture capital, or a high-growth startup/scaleup, or 6–18 months of internships/working-student roles with comparable intensity.

• Fundraising exposure with startups: investor/board materials, KPI pack, data room management, deliverable tracking; ideally Series A+.

• Interest in AI, automation, energy.

• Team-oriented, low ego, reliable execution.

• Execution strength: identify, prioritize, and complete tasks independently.

• Resilience: re-prioritize on change and communicate clearly within 24 h.

• Climate focus: work on concrete solutions, not just concepts.

• Data analysis: strong Excel/Sheets (investor deck), SQL basics; Python/No-Code a plus.

• German & English confident.