Founders Associate Intern (m/f/d)

Job description

⭐️ Your Impact: As Founders Associate Intern (m/f/d), you'll work directly for our two founders. Your mission: help us hire exceptional people and move the founders' most important projects forward. Unlike most Founders Associate internships, you'll get visible ownership of recruiting from week one — at our stage, hiring is the founders' most important job, and you'll be at the centre of it. What You'll Do Recruiting (core): source and longlist candidates, keep pipelines current, coordinate scheduling, and shape our candidate experience and employer branding. Strategic projects: research and analyses for founder decisions; first drafts of decks, memos, and investor updates — owned end-to-end. Founder office: prepare and follow up key meetings, track action items, and keep the operating cadence moving. ✨ What Makes You a Great Fit: Strong student or recent graduate with proof you perform at the top of your peer group — a demanding internship, founding experience, or real leadership somewhere. Ideally - previous internships in quantitative, fast-paced environments, e.g. consulting, investing, tech A people-person with excellent written German (native/fluent) and English — you write messages people answer. Structured, discreet, and reliable: you keep pipelines, trackers, and confidences. Curious about AI, startups, and how companies are actually built. Available full-time for 4–6 months in Berlin (hybrid). ☀️ Why You'll Love Working With Us: The closest seat to two founders scaling a VC-backed company — hiring, strategy, and fundraising from the inside Real ownership: your sourcing fills real roles, your drafts go to real investors — and a genuine shot at a full-time offer Fair internship compensation, Deutschlandticket or Urban Sports Club, and regular team events Sounds like you? We'd love to hear from you. smalt is an equal-opportunity employer — we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.