Founders Associate Intern (f/m/x)

Founders Associate Intern (f/m/x)

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.

Founders Associate Intern (m/f/d)

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€.

Founder's Associate Intern (f/m/d)

lemon.markets

ABOUT LEMON.MARKETS 🍋 We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers. lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months. As part of the dwpbank group, we’re adding a layer of resources and expertise to benefit from, while continuing to operate as an independent fintech with our own team, product, and start-up identity under the dwpbank umbrella. YOUR MISSION: As a Founder’s Associate Intern, you will support the leadership team here at lemon.markets, making sure the business grows & runs smoothly, ensuring alignment across all business areas. You will work on a selection of diverse projects ranging from Strategy & Operations, to Business Development & Go-to-Market. These projects are hard to forecast and will highly depend on needs evolving from the phase lemon.markets is in, as well as hugely on your interests and the skill set you already bring along. You’ll get the best of both worlds: Experience first-hand how an early-stage start-up is being built, enjoy & benefit from a fast-paced and flexible environment, while working closely with experienced experts in their field. That means you will not only support and leverage your skill set, but learn & grow by taking on projects with a high degree of ownership. YOU WILL: * Support the leadership team on strategic projects: Help develop business strategies & execute on them, making sure we stay aligned with our company goals & objectives. * Further, define & develop our GTM strategy: Continuously research and analyse market trends, conduct competitor activities, and stay up to date with the changing Brokerage landscape in Europe. * Drive various strategic initiatives to help us prepare for our growth post launch, ramping up business operations and ensuring operational excellence. * Critically question, analyse and improve existing processes. Constantly aim to improve our existing setup, build world-class processes around it, that enable us to have a smoothly running organisation. WHO ARE YOU: * You have a background in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Computer science or a similar area. * You are an entrepreneurial problem solver. You strive to take ownership of the tasks you get and apply your analytical skills, structured thinking, and independent working style towards solving them. * You have gained hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment. You understand what working in a startup or a similar lean organisation is like. Ideally, you have worked in an early-stage startup, fintech, consulting, tech company or similar. * You are ready and willing to take ownership. “This is not my job!” is not part of your vocabulary - you identify problems, take initiative to take them on, and challenge the status quo. * You cope well with frequent change and ambiguity. Changing tasks & requirements excite you. You are able to think logically, break down complex problems and prioritise between multiple tasks on your table. * You have a hands-on mentality. You default into action, want to gather first learnings fast, and iterate on the progress along the way. * You are a team player. Working together as a team and sharing knowledge comes naturally to you. * You have no problem with learning new tools and skills on the go. You try to solve problems with more things than the ones you already know. We will always enable you with that, but your willingness has to come first. How we take care of you: * 🚀 Compensation package: Our Interns are compensated at a fixed rate of €2,425 per month. * 💎 Make a real impact: Our start-up environment gives you the room to start your career, explore areas outside your role, and build expertise through ownership. As we mature and are backed by dwpbank, we’re adding a layer of resources and expertise you are benefiting from. * 🕑 Flexible working hours: We trust people to choose when they work best and avoid a rigid 9 to 5 mindset. You decide on the rhythm that helps you do your best work, with only shared core hours from 12:00 to 16:00 to support collaboration. * 🏢 Hybrid work setup: You can work from Berlin within a hybrid model. However, we strongly encourage our internship “lemoneers” to spend at least 3 days or more per week in the office. Being on-site allows you to learn faster, provides a more immersive experience, helps you collaborate more effectively with the team, and ensures you fully benefit from hands-on support. * 📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously! You’ll get regular mentorship and stretch opportunities, plus a clear career development framework with frequent feedback conversations so you always know where you stand, and what to do to level up. * 🌱 People & culture: You’ll feel our culture in the small things, like polaroids from our lemoneers’ first day, Friday food market strolls at Maybachufer, and our monthly new-joiner breakfast. But also in the bigger things: celebrating the onboarding of new partners, growing our teams, and owning a strong discussion culture. * 🏝 Workation: Get out of here! At lemon.markets you can work remotely from anywhere in the EU for up to 10 consecutive days at a time, and up to 60 days per year in total. As an equal opportunity employer, lemon.markets is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company welcomes people from all different backgrounds, including age, citizenship, ethnic and racial origins, gender identities, individuals with disabilities, marital status, religions and ideologies, and sexual orientations to apply. If you feel this role could be a great match for you even if you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you, please apply. You have any questions? Feel free to contact us via talent@lemon.markets.com