Founders Associate

doinstruct

Are you hungry to get your hands dirty and gain real startup experience? At doinstruct, you’ll work directly with leadership, gain insider know-how into scaling an AI-enabled SaaS company, and take on ownership across high-impact projects. This is not a typical internship – you’ll drive execution, solve challenges, and accelerate your career in an AAA-team during an intended time of 3-6 months in this Berlin-based role. QUICK FACTS: 🗓️ Start date: Flexible ⏳ Duration: 3-6 months 📍 Location: Prenzlauer Berg near Senefelder Platz (U2), Berlin WHAT YOU’LL DO: * 👩🏻‍🔬 Work directly with leadership - Support our C-Level and key teams in executing strategic initiatives and scaling the company. * 🎨 Get hands-on experience across business functions - Contribute to Go-To-Market, Product and Organizational Development to gain a holistic view of startup success. * ⚒️ Build scalable processes - Identify bottlenecks, optimize workflows, and set up systems that enable efficiency and growth. * 💪🏻 Take ownership of projects - Lead high-impact initiatives from start to finish, ensuring execution and measurable results. * 🏢 Our leadership is in person in the office and so do we expect you to be. Together with you, we want to drive this company forward. WHO YOU ARE: * 🤝🏻 Highly motivated & eager to learn - You’re hungry for experience, thrive on challenges, love taking initiative, and have always had a team-player mindset. * 🚀 Structured & hands-on - You can break down complex problems easily, communicate across multiple stakeholders, create solutions, and execute with precision. * 🧨 Entrepreneurial mindset - You’re proactive, adaptable, and comfortable in an ever-changing environment. * 👷🏻‍♀️ You’ve been in the trenches – In the past, you’ve demonstrated you’re in the top 5% of your peers through founding experience, internships (esp. in high-growth startups, consulting, venture capital/private equity or investment banking), leadership roles in student initiatives and/or above average curricular achievements. * 💚 Empathy for the backbone of our society - doinstruct serves those who are being overlooked everyday. We highly appreciate if you’ve had touch points with blue collar worker verticals or can demonstrate a deep passion for supporting them. * 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Fluent in German & English – Additional languages are a plus. If you’re looking for an internship where you can make an impact, learn from experienced startup operators, and gain invaluable hands-on experience, we’d love to hear from you. WHAT WE OFFER: * 🚀 Drive real impact – Help revolutionize training & operational excellence for frontline workers, making education more accessible and transformative. Your work will have direct, visible impact on the company, on our mission, and on thousands of workers. * 🔥 Own & build – Take full ownership from day one. In our fast-growing startup, your ideas drive action, and you’ll have the autonomy to shape projects and see them through. * 📈 Level up with the best – Work with a high-performing, passionate team, gaining hands-on exposure to strategy, execution, and leadership. Grow, learn, and push boundaries every day. * 🏢 State of the art office – Sometimes, deadlines come up and we all need to be the best versions of ourselves. To enable that, we take care of you with e.g. a state-of-the-art office, a full fridge that gets you through the day and free dinner ordering during late evenings. * 💸 Competitive salary - This isn’t an unpaid internship - we except much and give back accordingly. You will be competitively disbursed for your efforts. * 🎉 Lively culture & benefits – Apart from our hustle in the office, we like to take time to celebrate successes within monthly get-togethers, formal and informal team activities, offsites, and the occasional training in the gym (access included). * 💡 Backed by the best – With €16.5M Series A funding and strong partners - HV Capital, Creandum, HTGF and D11Z - on our side, we have the stability, network, and mentorship to scale big and fast. ____ At doinstruct, you can make full use of your skills and play an active role in the further development of our start-up. And yes, we attach great importance to a positive working atmosphere, maximum transparency, communication at eye level, and support every step of your personal and professional development. Even if you don't tick all of the boxes, but you are motivated and want to work with us, you are very welcome to apply. We embrace diversity and hire people based on their ability to perform a job. People of any race, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, political opinion, or marital status are welcome at doinstruct. _ For questions or remarks please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Manager, Leonard, at leonard.mielke@doinstruct.com.

Melotech

WHO WE ARE Melotech is revolutionizing media and entertainment. We create art through technology for humans to enjoy. In just 24 months, our work has been heard, watched and loved for over 3 billion minutes worldwide. Founded by entrepreneur and investor Soheil Mirpour, we are backed by top VCs Cherry Ventures, Speedinvest and GFC, alongside world-class angels from firms such as Spotify, Blackstone and KKR. WHAT YOU WILL DO As our Founders Associate Intern, you'll be a right hand to our CEO and execute our strategy across all topics and areas. You tackle the critical questions: Where is the market going and how do we position ourselves to benefit? Which data can point us into the right direction strategically? And how do we scale our internal processes and systems for maximum success? Working fully autonomously alongside our founder, your decisions will directly influence our company's trajectory and success. On a typical day, your tasks may include: * Managing high-impact projects from conception to completion across all business verticals * Preparing presentations, reports, and briefing documents while tracking KPIs and compiling performance updates * Conducting market, competitor, and investor research to identify growth opportunities and support strategic decisions * Supporting fundraising by creating pitch materials, organizing investor outreach, and maintaining partner relations * Streamlining workflows, improving operational processes, and handling recruiting at scale with the help of AI * Acting as a sparring partner for the founder in prioritizing and executing strategic projects across different areas of the business. WHO YOU ARE You're a strategic operator with deep analytical expertise. Your strength lies in translating a vision into an actionable plan while maintaining meticulous attention to detail. You've worked directly with leadership teams to drive critical initiatives and excel at communicating across engineering, product, and business functions. Typically, your profile will look like this: * Hold a degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, or a highly analytical field from a globally top-tier university * Bring at least 1 year of proven, high-impact professional experience from elite management consultancies, bulge bracket investment banks, Big Tech, leading PE/VC funds, or as an early team member at venture-backed, hyper-growth startups * Demonstrate exceptional analytical and communication skills, with a track record of turning complex data into clear, actionable insights that drive executive-level decision-making * Are highly autonomous: you thrive when given minimal guidance and are trusted to independently lead and deliver multiple strategic projects under tight deadlines * Have a clear track record of working directly with C-level executives to drive measurable impact in scaling and strategy * Excel in high-pressure, performance-driven environments, consistently delivering beyond expectations. High stakes, fast pace, and constant change energize you, not drain you * Your colleagues consistently describe you as uncompromisingly hard-working, relentlessly ambitious, and fiercely persistent – you do not stop until the result is achieved * You are obsessed with music, video, or social media. It's part of your identity, not just a hobby, and you are eager to shape the future of this industry WHAT MAKES THIS EXCITING You are one of the first employees of an ambitious team, changing the world of media and entertainment. Being early means every decision you make shapes our trajectory. You're not a cog in the machine but the captain of your own ship, rewarded for performance and respected for leadership. Flat hierarchies mean that your voice matters, your ideas get implemented, and your impact is immediate. We pay competitive salaries and make you an owner of the business with equity. We work remotely to give you complete freedom over your life, while meeting regularly around the world for global offsites where we strategize, bond, and push boundaries together. WHAT THE PROCESS WILL LOOK LIKE We hire on a rolling basis. Earliest starting date is always ASAP. Once you begin our process, you can progress from start to offer within a week, depending on how quickly you can move through each stage: 1. Online assessment: Motivational questionnaire and aptitude test - are you made for the job? 2. Initial interview: 30-minute introductory call - getting to know you 3. Take-home case study: Real-world project - showcase your skills and working style 4. Case interview: 90-minute case discussion - present and debate your results with a team member 5. Founder interview: 90-minute interview with our CEO - going deep on all topics 6. Team interview: Individual or group interview with other team members - depending on position 7. Offer, Contract signing and Onboarding Note: As we are still in stealth, you will learn more about Melotech as you progress through the stages. By the end of the Founder interview, you will have a full grasp of our business and the details of your role.

Peec AI

ABOUT PEEC AI Peec AI is a Berlin-based Series A startup building analytics and intelligence tools for modern SEO and growth teams. As AI reshapes how people discover information online, companies need new ways to understand where they appear, how they perform, and where the next growth opportunities are. Peec AI helps teams measure their visibility across AI search, track performance over time, and uncover opportunities to grow their organic presence in an increasingly complex search landscape. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a Founders Associate to work directly with our founders and leadership team as we scale. This is a high-trust, high-ownership role for someone exceptional who wants to see how a company gets built from the inside. You'll start with a sales focus, helping shape our playbook and uncover new revenue. You'll learn more in a year here than most people do in five, and the work you do will have a direct line to how fast we grow. WHAT YOU'LL DO * A bit of everything: work across Sales, Growth, and Customer Success, going where the company needs you most * Help build our sales playbook and find new revenue opportunities we haven't tapped yet * Create content and drive launches for new product and growth initiatives * Design internal processes and keep daily operations running without friction * Help us grow the team, from coordinating recruiting to attracting top-tier talent * Jump into messy, undefined problems, learn fast, and make things happen WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Either * A Bachelor's or Master's degree with outstanding academic results from a top university, plus 2+ internships at a top-tier startup, venture capital fund, investment bank, or strategy consulting firm or * 1+ years of experience at a top-tier startup, venture capital fund, investment bank, or strategy consulting firm Plus * An obsession with startups and a tendency to thrive in fast-moving, unstructured settings * Exceptional communication skills, written and verbal * A solid grasp of technology and the excitement to work hands-on with cutting-edge AI and SaaS tools * The hunger to grow fast and take real ownership from day one BONUS POINTS * Exposure to product, growth, marketing, strategy, or operations * Comfort with tools like Figma, Linear, Lemlist, Clay, and n8n * Strong analytical skills and fluency with numbers * Creativity and an eye for design, so you can make content and decks look world-class WHAT WE OFFER * Exciting and challenging work with real impact and ownership at one of Europe's fastest-growing Series A startups * Regular team events and off-sites * Aggressive equity compensation package * Paid Meal & Uber home when working late * The most beautiful office space and work environment in Berlin