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About the Role
This is the first Go-To-Market hire below founder level, focusing on the DACH market. The role involves daily phone calls in German to transform how industrial materials are bought and sold across Europe using AI-powered workflows.
Responsibilities
- Own outbound sales: call and message decision-makers at steel traders and stockholders across the DACH region in German daily.
- Book qualified meetings for the sales team.
- Track follow-ups to ensure no warm lead goes cold.
- Prepare pre-call briefs for effective customer conversations.
- Build and verify target lists, mapping companies to the right contacts.
- Maintain a clean and trustworthy CRM (Attio).
- Improve internal AI tooling for outreach, including research, enrichment, and message drafting.
- Integrate new data sources and automate manual steps.
- Utilize AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude) for shipping changes.
- Contribute to shaping the company's brand, messaging, and social media presence.
- Propose ideas for brand appearance and messaging.
- Grow the audience across relevant channels.
- Ensure brand consistency as the product evolves.
Requirements
- Comfortable making phone calls and seeking efficient work methods.
- Proficiency in selling in German is mandatory.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in German (C1 or C2 level required, native not necessary).
- Solid English communication skills.
- Ability to conduct end-to-end outbound calls with German industrial customers.
- Comfortable with cold conversations.
- Enrolled student or recent graduate.
- Comfortable with software and eager to use AI tools like Cursor or Claude.
- Ability to build or automate processes is a plus, but not strictly required to be an engineer.
- Resourceful and resilient; takes initiative and is not deterred by rejection.
- Organized and detail-oriented regarding data accuracy.
- Based in Berlin or willing to relocate before the start date.
- Legally permitted to work in Germany.
Skills
- Sales
- Outbound Sales
- Lead Generation
- CRM Management
- AI Tools
- Brand Building
- Communication
- Automation
Location
- Berlin
- Germany
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Werkstudent (16-20 hours/week)
Experience Level
- Entry Level
Education Level
- Enrolled student or recent graduate
Benefits
- Direct line to a co-founder.
- Opportunity to shape the outbound function as the first GTM hire below founder level.
- Hands-on experience building and extending AI outbound engines using tools like Cursor and Claude.
- Full attribution for generated meetings.
- Study-compatible work hours (16-20 hours/week).
- Office located in Prenzlauer Berg.
- Hybrid work setup.
- International team environment with work conducted in English.
About the Company
- Berlin-based startup transforming the industrial materials market.
- Utilizes AI to manage end-to-end buying and selling workflows.
- Aims to increase liquidity, speed up transactions, and reduce waste for steel and metal distributors.
- Has strong early traction, enterprise customers, and committed investors.
- Operates as a lean, technical team focused on scaling enterprise pilots and building AI infrastructure.