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Founders Associate Intern (m/f/d)

InternshipFrankfurt am Main - Rhine-MainHybrid4–6 months
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KlimaOne is a co-founder and partner to regionally leading refrigeration and air-conditioning businesses. We bring capital, back-office and orders; our craft partners bring their craft.

We're growing and now looking for a key addition to the team.

Strong performance leads to a permanent offer after the internship.

// Role

Your role

You work directly with the founders and take responsibility for the operational core of our model. You're not just a generalist, you're the one who builds the structures through which every new partner business launches and grows cleanly.

Your focus:

  • →Build structures. You turn what works today into a system that works for every partner business.
  • →Solve bottlenecks. You spot where things are stuck and tackle them yourself.
  • →Free up the founders. You take topics off their plate and run them cleanly.
// Responsibilities

What you'll do

01Operations & Growth

  • →Preparing and supporting customer conversations, from enquiry to order
  • →Running the sales pipeline of our partner businesses (B2C and B2B)
  • →Developing offer logic, pricing and conversion along the value chain

02Systems & Automation

  • →Building and documenting scalable processes that still work at the second and third partner business
  • →Contributing to automations in CRM, ERP and internal workflows
  • →A clean setup for every new partner business at onboarding

03Data analysis

  • →Tracking core KPIs across sales, operations and finance
  • →Identifying bottlenecks and deriving concrete actions
  • →Preparing numbers for founders, partner businesses and investors

04Your canvas

  • →Your own entrepreneurial projects in growth, recruiting, partner onboarding or the funding landscape
  • →Quickly getting up to speed on new topics and delivering on them independently
  • →Sparring partner for the founders on operational and strategic questions
// Profile

What you bring

  • →Philosophy. You want to understand how businesses really work, and to help build them yourself.
  • →Experience. Prior work experience or internships in a startup, consulting, VC/PE or a process-strong Mittelstand or Handwerk business. An economics or technical academic background is a plus.
  • →Way of working. You work in a structured, fast and solution-oriented way. You think along and move into execution.
  • →Systems thinking. You're interested in processes, automation and scalable structures.
  • →Communication. You communicate clearly and precisely, and you're equally comfortable with founders, craft partners and customers. German C2.
  • →Bonus. An affinity for the trades, for the Mittelstand, or for construction and energy topics.
// Benefits

What you get

  • →Direct collaboration with the founders
  • →Responsibility from day 1, on real topics, not on side tasks
  • →Insight into building a model that scales several businesses in parallel
  • →Fast learning through real execution
  • →Lovely office in Frankfurt, hybrid working possible
  • →Modern tooling, no corporate baggage
  • →A clear development path into a leadership position within the company
// Application

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