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About the Role
We are hiring a Headhunting Intern to build our ultimate M&A unfair advantage. Our success in acquiring traditional property management companies across Germany hinges on immediately replacing legacy management with tech-driven leadership. This role involves finding, tracking, and engaging future Managing Directors to run these businesses. You will proactively build, map, and nurture Germany-wide talent pools of top-tier executives, ensuring the perfect leader is ready post-acquisition. You will work directly with leadership and M&A teams in our Berlin office, making talent acquisition a core driver of company strategy.
Responsibilities
- Identify and directly approach seasoned leaders, senior managers, and potential Managing Directors across Germany via LinkedIn, Xing, and direct outreach.
- Strategically map the German market and build structured, long-term talent pools for future leadership roles.
- Align talent pipelines directly with the M&A pipeline to deploy new C-level executives into target companies immediately post-acquisition.
- Pitch Buena’s vision to senior-level candidates and facilitate strategic interviews with the executive team.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled as a student in a German university or available for a full-time internship of at least 6 months.
- Native German speaker.
- High emotional intelligence and professional confidence to engage, pitch, and maintain relationships with senior executives.
- Highly structured and meticulous in mapping markets and building confidential talent data pipelines.
- Tech affinity, leveraging modern tools, AI sourcing, and advanced CRM/ATS systems.
- Based in Berlin and ready to work from the office in Prenzlauer Berg.
- First experience in executive search, high-end recruiting, CRM marketing, or outbound sales with senior decision-makers.
Skills
- German language proficiency (native)
- Emotional intelligence
- Professional confidence
- Structured thinking
- Market mapping
- Talent data pipeline management
- Tech affinity
- AI sourcing
- CRM/ATS systems
- Executive search
- High-end recruiting
- CRM marketing
- Outbound sales
- Relationship management (senior decision-makers)
Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time internship
- Onsite
Experience Level
- First experience in executive search
- First experience in high-end recruiting
- First experience in CRM marketing
- First experience in outbound sales
Education Level
- Currently enrolled as a student in a German university
Benefits
- €110/month lunch budget
- €50 fitness subsidy
- €1,200 yearly education budget
- Free books
- Real seat in a high-growth company
- Insight into talent acquisition driving multi-million euro M&A strategy
About the Company
- Buena builds technology for real estate.
- Aims to make real estate processes seamless and transparent.
- Acquires property managers across Germany and rebuilds them as technology companies.
- Became Germany's second-largest property manager in under two years with fewer than 25 HQ staff.
- Believes the next trillion-dollar real estate company will run the industry, not just sell software.
- High-growth company with a small, tight-knit team.
- Meritocratic culture where impact is quickly rewarded.
- Values personal connections, working from the Prenzlauer Berg office.
- Focused on outcomes, enabling wealth creation by addressing low homeownership rates in Germany.