Founders Associate Intern

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.

Mercanis

DEINE AUFGABEN Als Founders Associate Intern bei Mercanis arbeitest du direkt mit unseren Foundern und dem Management-Team zusammen. So erhältst du einen 360°-Einblick in den Alltag eines schnell wachsenden SaaS-Unternehmens. Du unterstützt operative Exzellenz und strategische Projekte, die das Wachstum von Mercanis vorantreiben. Dieses Praktikum bietet dir eine einzigartige Gelegenheit, von erfahrenen Gründern zu lernen, früh Verantwortung zu übernehmen und einen echten Beitrag zu unserer Unternehmensentwicklung zu leisten.  DEIN AUFGABENBEREICH * Strategic Orchestrator: Arbeite eng mit unserem Management zusammen, um Wachstumsinitiativen und strategische Entscheidungen vorzubereiten. * Innovation Steward: Übernimm Verantwortung für strategisch bedeutsame Projekte, von der Ideenfindung über die Validierung bis zur operativen Umsetzung. * Operational Maestro: Optimiere zentrale Prozesse, definiere Leistungskennzahlen und schaffe die operative Infrastruktur für starkes Wachstum. * Project Pioneer: Leite eigenverantwortlich Projekte, koordiniere mit relevanten Stakeholdern und präsentiere datenbasierte Ergebnisse. * Versatility Virtuoso: Bringe wertvolle Impulse in Produktentwicklung, Prozessimplementierung, Kundenentwicklung und Vertrieb ein. * Market Maven: Führe gezielte Recherchen zu Märkten, Kundenbedürfnissen und Wettbewerbern durch, um strategische Prioritäten zu unterstützen. DEIN PROFIL * Du absolvierst oder hast bereits ein Bachelor- oder Masterstudium in Wirtschaft, Volkswirtschaft oder einem vergleichbaren Fach an einer Universität oder Business School abgeschlossen. * Du bringst erste Berufserfahrung in anspruchsvollen, schnelllebigen Umfeldern mit (z.B. Consulting, Investment Banking, wachstumsstarke Start-ups). * Du bist proaktiv und hast eine Self-Starter-Mentalität mit ausgeprägten organisatorischen und zwischenmenschlichen Fähigkeiten. * Du verfügst über starke analytische Fähigkeiten, eine hohe Detailgenauigkeit sowie eine pragmatische, hands-on Arbeitsweise. * Du gehst komplexe Geschäftssituationen mit Begeisterung an und behältst auch unter Druck einen kühlen Kopf. * Du sprichst fließend Englisch und Deutsch — das ist ein Muss. WARUM WIR? * Mentorship & Growth: Arbeite eng mit erfahrenen Serial Founders in einem der am schnellsten wachsenden Series-A-Startups Europas zusammen, die deine persönliche und berufliche Weiterentwicklung aktiv fördern. * Perks: Tiefe Einblicke ins Scale-up-Life, regelmäßigen Team Events & Offsites, und natürlich: kostenlose Uber-Eats-Meals & Uber-Rides, wenn’s mal wieder länger dauert. * Room for Ideas: Wir leben eine offene Kultur mit echtem Sparring, du übernimmst Verantwortung und bekommst den Freiraum, deine Ideen voranzutreiben. * Team Mindset: Werde Teil eines neugierigen, motivierten Teams, das mutig experimentiert, offen kommuniziert und sich stetig weiterentwickelt, gemeinsam und individuell. * Central Location: Unser Büro liegt im Herzen von Berlins Startup-Ökosystem, mit bester Anbindung, großartiger Energie und tollen Menschen. * Compensation: Du erhältst ein monatliches Gehalt von 2.500€.

telli

ABOUT US Every 10 minutes, 18 million conversations happen between businesses and consumers around the world. For decades, the consumer side of those conversations sucked: long queues, robotic menus, repeated explanations, and advice that is often unhelpful. Most people today still cannot simply say what their problem is in natural language when communicating with businesses. AI changes that. For the first time, companies can have natural conversations with customers at massive scale. Every B2C company - from energy providers to telcos to insurers - will use AI agents to talk to their customers. The number of conversations businesses will handle is going to explode in the coming years. At telli, we are solving the challenges that come with that shift. Today, leading B2C companies like Sky are already using telli to deploy thousands of voice agents to provide their customers with a new experience. But building a first voice agent is easy, getting it to drive real outcomes for customers and businesses is the hard part. telli helps companies build, deploy, and improve consumer-facing AI voice agents at scale. This will become one of the most important software categories of the next decade, and we intend to win it. We are a small, AI-pilled team that likes to solve hard problems. Be it engineering, product, or GTM - we build, experiment, and move fast, while heavily leveraging the capabilities of AI models. All of us like to challenge ourselves and take real ownership over what we do, all while still staying humble and keeping a low-ego culture. Check out our principles to see how we work. MISSION As the Founder's Associate Intern at telli, you'll work right alongside the founding team across finance, legal, ops, and special projects. You'll have a front-row seat to how an early-stage AI company operates and a very hands-on role in keeping things running and moving fast. WHAT YOU’LL DO: * help us build the operational backbone behind telli's growth * take on special projects, driving initiatives forward by coordinating stakeholders and keeping everything on track * support with finance operations by maintaining reports, chasing invoices, and managing payment flow * help the growth team close new customers by managing legal and compliance processes * support with our hiring pipeline, from screening candidates to scheduling interviews * help plan and execute internal and external events and keep the office running smoothly * work closely with Ennie and Philipp WHAT MAKES YOU A GREAT FIT: * you are hands-on and not afraid of doing unglamorous work * you're tech- & automation savvy and can learn new tools fast * you love solving problems and figuring things out on your own * you’re a strong communicator in both English and German * you’ve have initial (internship) experience and/or worked on side hustles or projects * you're done or at the end of university and could imagine starting full-time after the internship YOU MAY NOT MAKE A GOOD FIT IF: * you have never touched automation/AI tools or don’t have basic technical understanding * you only want to do high-level “strategic” work * you aren’t comfortable juggling multiple tasks at once * you don’t enjoy working directly with customers or in dynamic environments * you’re only looking for a typical 9–5 internship