Founder's Associate - Venture Building (Internship) - Remote

Overview

As a Founder’s Associate focused on Venture Building, you’ll work directly with the founding team to explore and validate new business opportunities at the frontier of AI x Data.

In Short

• Research and validate underserved B2B use cases for agentic/AI-native systems
• Engage directly with potential users and customers to understand needs, pain points, and buying behavior
• Benchmark successful startups to identify whitespace and localization opportunities
• Design and test new business models, pricing strategies, and value propositions
• Draft internal memos, market maps, and early MVP/feature specs
• Contribute to shaping new tools, APIs, or insights products from idea to prototype
• Support go/no-go decisions based on market feedback and early traction signals

Requirements

• You are currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
• Previous experience in startups, strategy consulting, VC, product management, or similar fast-paced environments
• Strong analytical and structured thinking — you break down ambiguity into actionable steps
• Great communicator (written + verbal) who can confidently talk to users and synthesize insights
• Entrepreneurial mindset: proactive, curious, comfortable with uncertainty, and execution-oriented
• Fluent in English (German is a plus)

Benefits

• Extreme learning curve through direct collaboration with the founding team
• Exposure to frontier topics like agentic systems, LLMs, embeddings, and structured data infrastructure
• Build a strong portfolio of real deliverables
• Ongoing support after the internship with references, warm intros, and career guidance
• Performance-based financial bonus if a product or revenue stream you contributed to gets launched
• Possibility of a follow-up offer as a working student or full-time team member, depending on fit

This is a voluntary internship for a maximum of 3 months or a mandatory internship (Pflichtpraktikum) as part of a university degree. Please indicate your eligibility in your application.

Remote-first and async-friendly setup — work from anywhere, with full ownership and flexibility.

How to apply

Interested? Just send us your CV and answer the three short questions below and attach the answers as a cover letter. No actual cover letter needed.

1. Why do you want to work with us at this stage, on this kind of problem? (max 150 words)
2. Tell us about a project or challenge you took initiative on. What was your role, and what changed because of you?
3. (Optional) What’s something you’ve built, sold, or learned recently that you’re proud of? (1–2 sentences)

(We review every application personally. Thoughtful answers go a long way.)