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About the Role
As a Strategy & Operations Intern, you will work directly with the founding team on critical strategic and operational topics. This hands-on role involves executing across human resources, growth, partnerships, and operations, providing a front-row seat to building and scaling a fast-growing open-source startup.
Responsibilities
- Support the founders with strategic projects across growth, product, operations, and fundraising.
- Analyze data and create reports to inform key business and product decisions.
- Prepare presentations, memos, and documents for internal and external stakeholders.
- Research markets, competitors, and customer needs to identify new opportunities and risks.
- Help coordinate and execute cross-team initiatives, ensuring alignment between Product, Growth, and Engineering.
- Take ownership of ad-hoc projects, from testing new go-to-market ideas to improving internal processes.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s program in Business, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Based in Berlin (or able to relocate) and available to work full-time for at least 4 months.
- Highly structured, organized, and able to manage multiple topics in parallel.
- Enjoy working with data, building models, and turning insights into action.
- Proactive, curious, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
- Strong written and verbal English skills.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Prior experience in startups, consulting, VC, or strategy (preferred).
- Interest in open-source software, developer tools, or SaaS (preferred).
- Basic understanding of tech products, APIs, or cloud infrastructure (preferred).
- Experience with tools like Notion, Excel/Sheets, SQL, or Python for analysis (preferred).
Skills
- Data analysis
- Report creation
- Presentation preparation
- Market research
- Competitor analysis
- Customer needs analysis
- Cross-team initiative coordination
- Project ownership
- Strategic planning
- Operations management
- Human resources
- Growth strategy
- Partnership development
- Fundraising support
- Business analysis
- Product decision support
- Stakeholder communication
- Go-to-market strategy
- Process improvement
- English communication
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Internship
Education Level
- Bachelor's program
- Master's program
Benefits
- Hybrid work setup
- Direct exposure to founders
- Steep learning curve
- Hands-on experience across product, growth, operations, and fundraising
- Real impact on company trajectory
- Potential for permanent role for outstanding interns
- Team lunches
- Team events
- Access to health and fitness programs (e.g., Wellpass)
About the Company
- A software company developing an open-source zero-trust network security platform that is easy to use and affordable.
- Mission: To make advanced network security accessible for everyone, believing secure private networking is a fundamental right.
- Launched on GitHub in 2021, trusted by thousands of companies.
- Replaces traditional centralized VPNs, connecting hundreds of thousands of users and machines worldwide.
- Community-driven approach is a key driver of success.
- Listens to user input to improve network security.