Founding Talent Lead (m/f/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.

Hive

Total Compensation Range: €72,930 - €104,550 THE POSITION BER3 is our Berlin flagship - and the site where we pilot the processes, tools, and automation that later scale across the whole Hive network. We're looking for a Site Lead to own it end-to-end: its people, its performance, its P&L, and its standard of excellence. You'll run a site of ~200 associates across all different areas leading through a team of Area Managers. This is a hands-on leadership role - you set the standard on the floor, not from a desk. You're first in and last out when it matters, calm under pressure, and you turn problems into proposals. Your Key Responsibilities: * Own the building end-to-end. Take full accountability for BER3's P&L, productivity, quality, safety and team health. Hitting monthly, quarterly and annual budget targets and treating every cost line and KPI as yours. Flag deviations early with a plan, not a surprise. * Run safe, high-quality daily operations. Keep associates safe and compliant as your first priority. Own order accuracy, customer NPS and health scores. Be visible on the floor, regular Gemba walks, shift-start presence during peaks, and time close to the work and the merchants you serve. * Lead and grow people. Coach your Area Managers with weekly 1:1s, clear growth paths and honest, regular feedback. Build a skills matrix, develop successors, and manage performance in line with our value of caring meritocracy. Keep a motivated team and low churn of your best people. * Drive improvement and innovation. BER3 is Hive's R&D site, so you'll run it with a try-fast, learn-fast mindset, piloting new processes, tools and automation, and turning what works at BER3 into improvements that ship across the network. Bring at least one measurable improvement initiative per quarter. * Communicate and collaborate. Write clearly (SOPs, incident post-mortems), present with structure (leadership reviews, all-hands), and own escalations end-to-end: including a fast, structured response on critical (SEV1) incidents. Partner with HQ, the WMS/product team, and merchant-facing teams. YOUR PROFILE We are looking for someone who has: * Several years leading a fulfillment center, warehouse or 3PL operation at scale, with direct P&L ownership * A genuine hands-on, people-first leadership style and a never-give-up attitude * Strong analytical skills, comfortable with data, able to read a P&L and act on it * A proactive, solution-first problem-solver who surfaces issues early and brings suggestions * A proven track record of building and developing teams, and of working with a diverse, multicultural workforce * Fluent English; German is a strong plus  * Nice to have: Lean / Six Sigma or similar continuous-improvement experience; familiarity with WMS systems and an interest in automation/AI in fulfillment; experience standing up new processes or sites OUR OFFERING * Build something that matters: Hive is redefining commerce operations in a €200B+ market. We already reach tens of millions of consumers a year and power 600+ independent brands, and we're just getting started. * Work with exceptional people: a high-performing, ambitious team, many from McKinsey, Amazon, Shopify, Google, TikTok, and Trade Republic. * Grow with Hive: own impactful projects from day one and grow as we scale. We're a meritocracy: your impact drives your progression, not your past titles. * Time to recharge: 30 vacation days a year, plus a paid 20-day sabbatical every three years. * Competitive compensation: market-competitive salary and an equity incentive plan (EIP) for all full-time team members. * Your setup, your choice: a MacBook (or laptop of your choice) plus accessories like an extra monitor or headphones, and a €46/month productivity budget to spend how you work best (from month 4; €23 for interns and working students from month 3). * Food and fitness: free lunch once per week at the Berlin office + daily 50% subsidy on lunch by ChefCoco, free drinks and snacks, and a €20/month Urban Sports Club subsidy for full-time team members. * Flexibility and connection: flexible working hours, internal training led by Hive experts, regular team events (€30/person/month budget), and company-wide multi-day offsites that bring all of Hive together * Extras: partner discounts on Raus stays, gym platforms, and a corporate benefits portal. About us  We're revolutionizing e-commerce operations. At Hive, we empower brands to excel in the digital commerce era through our innovative operations platform. By combining cutting-edge technology with a curated network of top-tier operations partners, we deliver measurable results. Our comprehensive platform streamlines the entire operational chain through a single, intuitive interface. Since our founding in 2020, we've rapidly grown to become one of Europe's leading operations platform, partnering with hundreds of innovative brands. With strategic locations in Berlin, Paris, Milan, Madrid, London, and Amsterdam. Backed by prestigious investors including Tiger Global, Earlybird, and Picus Capital, we're scaling our impact across Europe. Diversity and inclusion are core to our success. We actively cultivate an environment where every team member, regardless of background, can thrive. We welcome talent from all walks of life, regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. At Hive, authenticity and professional growth go hand in hand.

Taxfix

OUR STORY: Every year millions of people are either filing their taxes in fear or giving up on their tax refund altogether. We're working on fixing that. Our intuitive app enables anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence. Spread across Germany, Spain and the UK, the team at Taxfix Group with its brands Taxfix and Steuerbot, is a compassionate group of solution-finders. We speak our minds openly, and with over 400 professionals, including tax experts, developers, and IT security experts, we're rich in ideas and voices. The group has facilitated more than 3.5 billion euros in tax refunds for its customers since its founding in 2016. THE OPPORTUNITY: Taxfix is building a portfolio of AI-native, SaaS-oriented businesses across different stages of maturity — from established profit pools to scaling businesses and earlier-stage growth bets. We are looking for senior commercial leaders who can take ownership of one of these business areas and build it into a focused, repeatable, and durable growth engine. This role is for high-agency commercial builders who combine strong revenue ownership, sharp customer understanding, and disciplined execution with the ability to operate in ambiguity, experiment quickly, and make clear strategic choices. You will report to the COO or a designated business line leader and work closely with a senior product counterpart in a joint business-building setup. You will own the commercial side of the business while shaping shared priorities across product, monetization, and growth. You will partner closely with Product, Marketing/Growth, Sales, Partnerships, Operations/Service Delivery, Finance, Legal, Data/Analytics, and People. The initial focus is Germany, with potential to support expansion into additional markets. The exact scope will depend on your experience spike and where we see the strongest fit.   YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: Own commercial strategy and outcomes. Define growth ambition, profitability targets, commercial priorities, and the execution roadmap for a major business area. Make key commercial choices. Shape ICP, segmentation, positioning, value proposition, pricing, packaging, channels, and customer lifecycle. Build repeatable growth loops. Improve acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, expansion, and win-back through disciplined experimentation. Lead revenue generation. Build or scale the right commercial motion — product-led, sales-assisted, partner-led, account-based, lifecycle-driven, or hybrid. Partner closely with Product. Work with a senior product counterpart on roadmap implications, monetization priorities, and business-critical product choices. Establish performance discipline. Define KPIs, forecasting, dashboards, review rituals, and accountability mechanisms. Build strong teams. Hire, coach, and raise the bar for commercial talent while creating clear ownership and leadership capacity. Manage complexity. Anticipate regulatory, operational, data, partner, and compliance risks and create practical guardrails.   WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE: Success depends on the maturity and economics of the business you lead. In more mature businesses, success may mean sharper focus, stronger pricing and commercial discipline, better profitability, healthier cash generation, and durable growth. In scaling or earlier-stage businesses, success may mean clearer ICP and positioning, stronger conversion and retention, validated propositions and channels, healthier unit economics, and repeatable growth loops. Across all cases, success means stronger commercial judgment, faster learning, better execution, and tight alignment between product direction, monetization, and business outcomes.   YOUR PROFILE: * 10+ years of experience in commercial, sales, GTM, strategy, or general management roles; experience in SaaS, subscriptions, platforms, marketplaces, fintech, or B2B services is strongly preferred. * Proven ability to build or scale a commercial engine, including sales motion, segmentation, pricing, packaging, channels, lifecycle, and operating cadence. * Strong sales background with hands-on ownership of revenue outcomes, pipeline quality, conversion, forecasting, and commercial performance. * Strong P&L and unit economics orientation, including CAC, payback, retention, expansion, margin trade-offs, service cost, and cash implications. * Strong product-commercial judgment and ability to work closely with Product without relying on hierarchy. * High ownership, structured execution, and comfort operating in ambiguity. * Data-driven and experiment-minded, using evidence, customer signals, and fast learning loops to improve performance. * Talent multiplier with experience hiring, coaching, delegating, and developing strong leaders. * Fluent in English; German is a strong plus.   PARTICULARLY RELEVANT EXPERIENCE SPIKES We are hiring across several priority business lines and do not expect every candidate to cover all of them. We are especially interested in profiles with one or more of the following spikes: Consumer SaaS / self-service Experience scaling consumer SaaS, subscription, or product-led growth businesses with high-volume digital funnels, including conversion, lifecycle, retention, pricing, experimentation, and efficient acquisition. Consumer SaaS / expert-assisted services Experience scaling SaaS subscription businesses where software and service delivery are deeply connected, including expert support, operations, quality control, capacity planning, and service economics. SaaS for self-employed professionals Experience building and scaling Business SaaS solutions for self-employed professionals, SMEs, accountants, or similar B2B ecosystems, including sales-led or partner-led GTM, onboarding, retention, expansion, and platform monetization. WHY TAXFIX?  * A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals. * Holistic well-being with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga. * A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services that you can use and roll over as flexibly as you like. * Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create. * 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours. * A generous learning budget to support your personal and professional development and guidance from our internal L&D experts. * Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year. Just align with your team, and then enjoy your trip. * Plenty of opportunities to socialise as a team. In addition to internal meetups, our international team hosts regular get-togethers—virtually and in person when possible. * Free tax declaration filing, of course, through the Taxfix app—and internal support for all personal tax-related questions. * Have a four-legged friend in your life? We’re happy to have dogs join us in the office. Excited? So are we. Learn more about Team Taxfix on our blog and get a glimpse of our culture.   At Taxfix, we believe that incredible things happen when you have a wealth of perspectives and experiences. We're proudly committed to equal employment and development opportunities no matter your gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, colour, disability, or place of origin. To help mitigate any potential unconscious biases, we ask that you refrain from including your picture, age, or marital status on your CV. Let your experiences speak for themselves. Not sure if you meet all the requirements for this role? Please apply anyway. You might bring something special to the team that we hadn't considered previously.