Founder's Associate Intern / Working Student

Clera · Berlin

  • FullTime

About the role

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.

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