Founder's Associate Intern / Working Student

About the Role

This is a hands-on internship or working-student role embedded directly with the CEO of an early-stage enterprise AI startup. You'll own high-volume outbound outreach and help build the enterprise sales playbook from the ground up, driving real pipeline with procurement leaders at industrial manufacturers.

What You'll Do

• Run outbound outreach at scale across email and LinkedIn to fill the top of the pipeline with qualified enterprise conversations.

• Research target accounts, identify the right contacts, and surface trigger events for timely, relevant outreach.

• Write personalized cold emails and LinkedIn messages aimed at procurement leaders at industrial manufacturers — in both German and English.

• Manage and execute multi-touch sequences and follow-ups to maximize reply and conversion rates.

• Track open rates, reply rates, and conversion metrics, and run weekly A/B tests to improve performance.

• Enrich, maintain, and clean target account data in the CRM to keep it actionable.

• Prepare meeting materials including competitive research, company briefings, and tailored one-pagers.

• Design and iterate on messaging experiments to inform the company's go-to-market playbook.

• Sit in on strategy discussions, product demos, and investor conversations for full context.

• Take on ad-hoc startup tasks such as event prep, partnership research, market analysis, or investor deck updates as needed.

What We're Looking For

• Current student or recent graduate in business, engineering, or a similarly rigorous field.

• Hands-on experience with outbound outreach at scale — researching accounts, crafting personalized messages, and managing multi-touch sequences via email and LinkedIn.

• Strong professional writing in both German and English; able to write a sharp cold email to a Head of Procurement and a clear investor update.

• Highly organized, reliable, and able to deliver high-quality repetitive work independently.

• Genuine curiosity about B2B enterprise sales, procurement workflows, or AI.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with evidence of building or starting something — a club, side project, startup, or similar.

• Comfortable using CRM platforms (e.g., HubSpot or Salesforce) for data enrichment, tracking, and hygiene.

• Some exposure to procurement processes or domain knowledge is a plus.

Location

Based in Berlin, Germany. Primarily on-site with hybrid flexibility available.