Founder's Associate Intern / Working Student
👷🏻♀️ What we do 👷🏻♀️
At Emidat, we are building the first climate-native product management system for building material manufacturers. We aim to decarbonise building materials, making up 11% of global GHG emissions. We collect data from physical production processes, generate a digital product passport with verified environmental data and make it usable along the value chain. In short: One solution to assess, design, buy, sell and manage products - with environmental impact at the core.
With this, we are building the digital infrastructure to make it faster, easier, and more sustainable to build the world around us.
Find out more about us, the team and our values here.
What you will work on
Your mission
Support founders in executing on most urgent and important projects
As our Founder’s Associate (Intern or working student), you are the driving force executing on our strategic projects. This is a unique opportunity to learn entrepreneurship from the ground up, working directly with the founders. You will learn more in a month than most people in a year and we see it as our responsibility to give you all the tools and intros you need to grow in the fastest manner possible. It will be demanding, but it will be equally exciting.
We are looking for a highly structured, smart, detail-oriented person with low ego and insane sense of ownership. Please don’t take yourself too seriously as well.
“I (Lisa) did exactly this internship at Root in 2022 when they were just 2 people. During that time, they raised their 2.5mn seed round and 1 year later, Root employed >10 people. It‘s the best role to prepare for founding” 🤓
Your challenge:
Support Lisa & Florian to drive Emidat’s strategic priorities and execute on projects we have defined together. Some exemplary projects you will own:
Operations: being the right hand of the founder, supporting in all day-to-day tasks. We are a small team building the company from scratch. We all get our hands dirty
Commercial: building the customer pipeline, maintaining customer communications, further developing the GTM strategy
Hiring: setting up and managing channels, building up and managing the candidate flow, interviewing, onboarding new employees, improving the hiring process
Many more strategic projects in the fields of operations, organization, legal, finance, and strategy with changing demand every week
What you should bring to this role
Language: Business Fluent in English.
(FOR INTERNS) Commitment: Availability to commit to the role for a minimum of 4 months, with a strong preference for individuals seeking a long-term position to drive and see through strategic projects.
Project Execution and Ownership: A proven track record of owning and executing projects from inception (A) to completion (Z). This includes demonstrated excellence in high-ownership, self-managed roles.
Analytical & Technical Skills: Demonstrated experience adopting new tools and AI-driven workflows. Beyond being a power user of standard productivity suites, you should possess the analytical rigor to turn raw data into strategic insights and the "builder" mindset to automate your own workflows.
Structured Problem-Solving: Experience in structuring and breaking down ambiguous, complex business challenges into manageable tasks, leading to pragmatic, high-impact solutions.
Nice to Have's
Academic Background: Currently pursuing or possessing a Master’s degree in business, engineering, finance, or a related quantitative field.
High-Growth Experience: Prior experience (internship or full-time) in a fast-paced, high-growth technology startup or equivalent high-performance environment (e.g., Consulting, Private Equity, Investment Banking, Venture Capital).
Cross-Functional Acumen: Demonstrated hands-on experience in cross-functional projects across key business functions such as Product, Marketing, Sales (RevOps), Strategy, or Business Development.
Leadership and Initiative: A verifiable history of proactive initiative-taking and leadership, evidenced by activities such as leading university clubs, significant side projects, or entrepreneurial endeavors.
Cultural Fit: Exhibiting the core values of high integrity, intellectual curiosity, and a humble, 'low-ego' approach to team collaboration and problem-solving.
Bilingual Proficiency: Native or professional working proficiency (C1/C2 level) in both German and English.
How we support you
You will work with
Lisa (Co-founder and CEO at Emidat)
Flo (Co-founder and CTO at Emidat)
Nicklas (Founder’s Associate)
Isabel (Go-To-Market Executive)
Janos (Teamlead Sales Development)
Your team lead will be
Nicklas (Founder’s Associate)
Your mentors can be
Sales: Theresa Hauck (Co-Founder at econos - sustainable finance, ex-BCG, United Nations)
Legal and finance: Lisa Gradow (Co-Founder & CEO at Fides, Sequoia Arc ‘22, prev. Co-Founder and CPO at Usercentrics)
Company building, network: Markus Linder (Founder & CEO inoqo, prev. zoovu)
Marketing: Joe Cross (prev. Global Head of Marketing & Comms at TransferWise)
Meet the rest of the team HERE
It is important to us to give you the best frame conditions to grow. This is why we have designed our cap table in a way that all our early employees get functional experts as mentors by your side. See some of our other angel investors and mentors HERE.
What you can expect from us
💌 Access to our top-notch founder, investor and advisor network to benefit your development
💸 Attractive compensation package
🚀 Ownership and professional growth opportunities through customer interaction
🏖️ 25 days of vacation days per year
🎉 Fun team events, retreats and regular feedback
🥗 A beautiful office in the heart of Munich
Role type: Internship (4+ months) or working student (20 hours a week)
Location: Munich, Germany
Office Requirement: Office Based
Visa / Relocation: Preference will be given to candidates already based in Munich and that do not require visa sponsorship. However we are open to candidates who may need relocation or a visa.