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About the Role
As a Founder's Associate, you will work directly with our founder, taking on responsibility from day one, driving your own initiatives, and bringing strategic and operational topics to completion. You will be instrumental in digitizing one of Europe's last analog markets and building the infrastructure for intelligent energy management in buildings.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with the Founder on high-leverage projects across operations, sales, product, and strategy.
- Take on concrete operational responsibility from day one, owning customer and object onboarding and management end-to-end.
- Identify manual and repetitive processes, implement no-code/low-code solutions to increase operational efficiency.
- Support fundraising activities and client/partner meetings.
- Maintain oversight of project status, identify missing elements, and track pending actions.
- Drive own initiatives from idea to implementation, translating unclear problems into concrete plans with measurable results.
- Analyze market and competitor data to derive decisions.
- Build and improve internal systems for reporting, documentation, and tracking.
Requirements
- Demonstrated eagerness to prove oneself.
- Fast comprehension and ownership mentality; ability to work independently with attention to detail.
- Proactive and self-motivated, independently learning new topics, tools, and processes.
- Commitment to personal growth and well-being.
- Ongoing or completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Real Estate, or a related field.
- Ideally 2+ years of relevant internship or work experience in a startup, consulting, M&A, VC/PE, or Real Estate environment.
- High intrinsic motivation and strong entrepreneurial thinking with the ability to drive projects, learn quickly, take responsibility, and handle ambiguity.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills to approach complex problems solution-oriented.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, adaptable to various audiences.
- Tech affinity (AI, IoT, SaaS) and interest or experience in Real Estate, PropTech, ClimateTech, or Energy is a plus.
- Native-level German and fluent English proficiency.
Skills
- No-Code/Low-Code solutions (e.g., n8n workflows, Claude Code)
- Market and competitor analysis
- Reporting
- Documentation
- Tracking
- AI
- IoT
- SaaS
- Real Estate
- PropTech
- ClimateTech
- Energy
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
- Internship
- Permanent position
Experience Level
- Internship
- Entry-level
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
Benefits
- Direct collaboration and daily mentoring from an experienced founder.
- Steep learning curve.
- Opportunity to be part of a fast-growing early-stage startup.
- High degree of personal responsibility, speed, and creative freedom.
- Chance to make a real impact on the energy transition.
- Clear option for a permanent position upon excellent performance.
- Opportunity to help build Heidi as one of the first 20 employees.
- High-performance team with a humorous and supportive culture.
- Regular team dinners and events.
- Newly renovated office in Berlin Mitte near Monbijoupark.
- Access to a strong network in real estate, tech, energy, and venture capital.
About the Company
- Heidi Systems is building the Energy OS for Real Estate, digitizing one of Europe's last analog markets and creating the infrastructure for intelligent energy management in buildings.
- The company consists of 8 people with a strong pipeline of over 5,000 active deals.
- They have completed an angel round with investors including unicorn founders and directors from Google and OpenAI.
- Heidi Systems is revolutionizing the measurement service industry, a large and long-standing market.
- As a PropTech and ClimateTech company, they combine software, IoT, and operations into a platform that makes energy and consumption data fully digital, transparent, and real-time.
- They are on track for 10x growth in 2026.