Founders Associate (Intern)
About this job
Our mission Bounti is building the AI-native infrastructure layer for frontline teams — spanning training, audits, and autonomous operations. We partner with multi-location operators in frontline-industries such as hospitality. We're hiring a Founder's Associate Intern to work day to day with Max (Chief of Staff), with direct exposure to Deniz (Founder and CEO) and our department VPs. This isn't a role with a fixed lane: you'll move across strategy, commercial and operations depending on what the business needs most that week. What you'll do • Founder Leverage: Take ownership of whatever is highest priority for Max and Deniz in a given week. • Strategic Projects: Drive discrete, high-stakes projects end to end, from problem to recommendation to execution. • Market Intelligence: Research markets, competitors and customer segments to sharpen decisions on where Bounti plays next. • Cross-Functional Execution: Work across sales, product and people ops depending on what's needed, without waiting to be told which lane is yours. • Process and Structure: Build the systems and playbooks that let Bounti scale without losing speed. • Direct Exposure: Join calls with customers, investors and partners, and sit in on decisions most interns never see. Your profile • At least one internship in a fast-paced environment, such as top-tier consulting, investment banking, VC/PE, or a fast-growing startup. • Currently enrolled at or recently graduated from a leading university (WHU, TUM, Mannheim or comparable). • Structured and analytical: you turn ambiguous, messy problems into clear plans. • High agency: you don't wait for a task list, you find the highest-leverage thing to do. • Confident communicator, written and verbal, and comfortable pushing back when you disagree. • Fluent in German, confident in English; additional languages are a plus. Why us? • Founder Access: Sit close enough to see how real decisions get made, not the sanitised version. • Real Ownership: Visible, measurable impact on the business from week one. • Compressed Learning Curve: Strategy, operations, commercial and people, all at once. • Backed by Exceptional Investors: Top-tier VCs and investors including the founders of Framer and Indeed. • Career Launchpad: Strong performers have a clear path to a full-time role at Bounti. We embrace diversity and hire people based on their ability to perform a job. People of any race, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, political opinion, or marital status are welcome at Bounti.