Founder's Associate Intern / Working Student
About the Role
This is a hands-on internship or working student role at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup building AI-native procurement software for industrial manufacturers. You will work directly with the CEO, owning high-volume outbound outreach and helping shape the enterprise sales playbook from the ground up. It is a rare opportunity to learn enterprise sales from first principles while contributing to real pipeline growth.
What You'll Do
Run outbound outreach at scale across email and LinkedIn to generate qualified enterprise conversations.
Research target accounts and identify the right contacts and trigger events for timely, personalized outreach.
Write personalized cold emails and LinkedIn messages aimed at procurement leaders at industrial manufacturers.
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 A/B tests to improve performance weekly.
Enrich and maintain clean, actionable target account data in the CRM.
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.
Join strategy discussions, product demos, and investor conversations for full business context.
Support ad-hoc tasks such as event prep, partnership research, market analysis, and investor deck updates.
What We're Looking For
Current student or recent graduate in business, engineering, or a similarly rigorous field.
Professional written fluency in both German and English, with the ability to write sharp outreach and polished business communications.
Proven ability to research target accounts, personalize email or LinkedIn outreach, and manage follow-up sequences.
Comfortable owning high-volume outbound sales work as a core daily responsibility.
Highly organized and reliable, able to execute repetitive work independently to a high standard.
Evidence of entrepreneurial initiative, such as a side project, startup, student club, or similar.
Experience maintaining CRM data and using outreach metrics or A/B tests to improve conversion.
Genuine curiosity about B2B enterprise sales, procurement workflows, or AI software.
Based in Berlin and available to work from the office, with hybrid flexibility.
Location
Based in Berlin, Germany. Primarily on-site at the Berlin office, with hybrid work possible. Visa sponsorship is not available.