Founder's Associate (All Genders)

Scale Energy

DEINE MISSION YOUR MISSION Work directly with our founders on high-impact projects across strategy, sales, operations, and growth. You will help solve critical business problems, drive execution, and contribute to building one of Europe’s most ambitious energy companies. This is not a passive internship. We are looking for someone with exceptional drive, strong judgement, and a high work ethic - someone who thrives in fast-paced environments and takes ownership early. Your tasks: * Own projects across strategy, sales, operations and growth from analysis to execution. * Support the development of internal tools, processes, and platform solutions that help us scale. * Track regulatory developments, market opportunities, and funding mechanisms, and turn them into clear recommendations. * Prepare presentations, analyses, and decision materials for key company priorities. * Help drive new partnerships, market initiatives, and other growth projects. DEIN PROFIL YOUR PROFILE * You are studying or have recently completed a degree in any subject, with strong academic performance. * You are highly driven, analytical, structured, and hands-on.  * You are curious about energy, startups, business models, and building companies. * You communicate clearly and professionally in German and English. * First experience in a fast-paced environment such as startup, consulting, VC, finance, or energy is a strong plus. * Available from October 2026 for at least 3 months WARUM SCALE ENERGY? WHY SCALE ENERGY? * You will work side by side with the founders and gain first-hand exposure to how a high-growth energy company is built. * You will take on real responsibility, own meaningful work, and have direct impact from the start. * You will join an ambitious, high-performing team on a mission to build the infrastructure behind Europe’s energy transition.  * We offer competitive salary, a beautiful office in Berlin-Mitte and additional benefits such Urban Sports Club and regular team events.  DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We believe that building a strong company requires bringing together different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. That is why we welcome applications from people of all nationalities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and personal backgrounds. Our goal is to create a working environment in which everyone feels safe, respected, and empowered to do their best work. Even if you do not meet every requirement 100%, we still encourage you to apply - your unique background may bring exactly the perspective that makes our team even stronger.

VIDA

YOUR MISSION YOUR ALL-ACCESS PASS TO STARTUP LIFE — LEARN HR, FINANCE & OPS FIRST-HAND We're looking for a motivated, curious full-time paid intern to join our CEO Office team (People, Operations & Finance) as a Founders Associate Intern. You'll get hands-on experience across HR, Finance, and Operations — from HR tooling and onboarding to financial admin and company-wide communications — while owning real responsibilities and contributing to cross-functional projects from day one. If you want to learn how an impact-driven company works behind the scenes, and you're ready to roll up your sleeves, this role is for you. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES People & Culture * Support the full employee lifecycle: recruiting, onboarding, and ongoing People & Culture projects (e.g. engagement surveys, learning initiatives) * Manage HR tooling and employee records (Personio), and coordinate with our EOR providers (Oyster & Remote.com) on contracts, hiring admin, and visa/employment compliance for international hires * Organize and support smaller team events and our yearly offsite * Plan and support People & Culture initiatives and virtual team events that build cohesion Finance & Operations * Manage spend and expenses through our tool (Moss) and enforce related policies * Build and maintain spreadsheets/models to track cash burn, runway, unit economics, and other metrics * Support ad hoc reports, investor reporting, and finance process improvements as needed Internal Communications * Own the prep of our recurring meetings' slide decks end-to-end * Iterate on new formats to keep internal comms fresh * Prepare pre-reads, briefings, and materials for company meetings and events Cross-Functional Projects * Work on high-priority initiatives across the business (e.g. process improvements, tooling, research, AI) * Support strategic projects driven by leadership, including our CEO * Prepare analyses or presentations for various stakeholders IS IT YOU WE’RE LOOKING FOR? * Student near the end of your studies or a recent graduate in Business Administration, Economics, HR Management, Finance, or a related field — available for a full-time, paid 6-month internship, with the possibility to transition into a working student or full-time role afterward * You hold a valid German work permit — we can't sponsor visas or offer relocation support * Based in Munich, or willing to relocate — this role requires being in our office 2–3 days/week * Comfortable with (or eager to learn) Canva, Excel/Google Sheets (VLOOKUP, pivot tables), and Make.com * Comfortable working across Notion, Google Slides, and Claude/Cowork (Personio, EOR tools, Moss, and Easybill are a plus) * Excellent written and verbal English (German is a plus) * Strong organizational skills, a sharp eye for detail, and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset — you don't wait to be told what's next * Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities shift quickly * Bonus: experience in a startup or remote-first environment WHAT WE OFFER ⚡ Impact: Help shape our company culture and operations at an exciting stage of growth ⚡ Learning & responsibility: No "typical intern tasks" — you'll own real work across HR, Operations, and Communications from day one ⚡ Diversity: Team members from 15+ nationalities across the globe ⚡ Flexibility: Beyond your office days, you decide when and where you do your best work — most of the team is fully remote SOUNDS EXCITING? Even if you don't meet every requirement but feel you'd be a great fit, we'd still love for you to apply. Send your CV in English via the application form, and we'll be in touch!

Flexa

SHORT FACTS * Location: Munich, Germany * Employment Type: Full-Time, indefinite term * Salary Range: € 58.000 – 70.000 per year gross depending on the experience level, and additional 5k target bonus * Working Mode: Office first setup * Language Requirement: C1 Level English (German is a plus, B2+ ideal but not required) YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES As Founder's Associate, you will work closely with our both co-CEOs and our Chief of Staff to: * Own internal AI automation end to end across our support functions (People, Finance, Operations) — from talking to the human running a process today to shipping the agent that runs it tomorrow. * Drive projects to improve our operating model, drive cimpany effectiveness and way-of-working * Own zero-to-one projects to drive the next growth curve * Support in stakeholder engagement internally for company all-hands meetings, with our shareholders, and with external parties (PR, conferences, etc.) YOUR PROFILE We care more about what you have built and how you think than about which degree you hold. We hire across business, engineering, hybrid (e.g. business-informatics) and self-taught backgrounds — what we look for is the same. MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS * 1–3 years of work experience (substantive internships count); ideally at a startup or scale-up where you owned end-to-end delivery. * A track record of shipping things end-to-end — side projects you built and ran, internship deliverables that would not have shipped without you, a small business or initiative you started and operated. We care about evidence that you finish what you start. * Operator instinct — when handed a vague brief you ask why the process exists in its current form before you write code. You can sit with a non-technical colleague, watch them work, and reframe the problem cheaper than they framed it. * Coding strong enough to ship — Python is a must. You can read a codebase, structure a small one of your own, write tests, and reason about cost, latency and error handling. You will be asked to build a small working agent as part of our interview process. * Hands-on experience designing and shipping AI agents or LLM-driven workflows in a real environment — not only prototypes. You have integrated a model with at least one external system (an API, a database, a tool). * High agency and bias to ship — you don’t wait for the perfect spec; you find the smallest first version, ship it, and iterate. * C1 English. Comfort working in an English-first office. NICE-TO-HAVES * Familiarity with at least one agent framework (LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI, n8n). * Experience with RAG, vector stores, evals and prompt engineering at a non-trivial level. * Exposure to Google Workspace API, Slack API, Atlassian API or HRIS / payroll APIs. * TypeScript and SQL. * Experience interviewing customers or stakeholders, scoping a product, or selling — anything where you turned what you heard into a working spec. * German (B2+). * Experience in B2C, energy or climate-tech is a bonus, not a requirement. At Flexa, we are committed to diversity — of all backgrounds and experiences. You don’t need 100% of the preferred qualifications to add incredible value to our team. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you. BENEFITS * Professional Development: Annual development budget of 3,000 € for coachings, trainings, books, etc. * Health & Sport Subsidy: Company subsidised sports facilities membership * Jobticket * Lunch/Dinner Allowance Vouchers: Allowance for meals on working days as digital meal vouchers * Work Equipment: MacBook or Windows Laptop and ergonomic workplace * Regular Team Events: Knowledge Sessions, Afterwork, Sports, Offsites etc. * Front-row seat to applied AI: every week you will work with the newest models and frameworks on real, high-impact problems. A SHORT NOTE FROM YOUR FUTURE LEAD Sven – Chief of Staff Hi there! I'm Sven, Chief of Staff at Flexa, where we are building Europe's largest residential Virtual Power Plant — the AI-driven system that ties together solar panels, EVs, heat pumps and home batteries to help households save money and the grid stay stable. My role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations and execution: I work day to day with our two Co-CEOs to translate company priorities into the people, projects and processes that make them happen. Before joining Flexa, I spent nearly five years at McKinsey & Company, advising energy-sector clients on high-impact strategy projects from large utilities navigating the energy transition to scale-ups figuring out how to commercialize new technology. Earlier, I studied economics, which shapes how I think about trade-offs, incentives and where the real leverage in a system sits. At Flexa, we believe innovation happens when talented people are given real ownership and the trust to ship. I aim to create an environment where you can take responsibility, experiment with new ideas and build the things that actually matter. This role is one I care a lot about. We are tech-heavy in our product but still quite manual in how we run ourselves. You will not be a "tools picker"; you will decide what to build, what to buy and what to leave alone, and you will own the outcome. I will give you direction and context, then get out of your way. Of course, I’m always here to collaborate, brainstorm ideas, tackle tough challenges together, or help clear any roadblocks. If you are excited about turning a fast-moving company into one of the most AI-leveraged teams of its size in Europe — with a high degree of autonomy from day one — I am looking forward to hear from you. Sven