Product Manager Internship (f/m/x) - Zurich, 80 - 100% (Home Office / Customer Site)

This is a great opportunity for you to work directly in debt and equity capital markets, digital assets and blockchain areas for an established, dynamic and successful Swiss FinTech.

If you want to be part of a new entrepreneurial adventure to build and scale a new kind of financial services firm in an open and embracing environment, then we just might have the job meant for you.

Tasks

As a product intern at Aequitec, your mission is to support the product & operations team of Aequitec to fulfil the exceptionally high standards of customers, e.g., board presidents of Swiss stock companies, financial services providers in the inter-banking ecosystem, the Swiss Stock Exchange. At Aequitec, you will:

Join our Aequitec team from March 1st as a product manager for up to 6 months with potential termination end of August. Additionally and optionally, we offer the opportunity of writing your bachelor's or master's thesis with us after your internship.

Participate in customer calls with members of the management board and sales colleagues for collecting and structuring customer requirements

Design and discuss readable software specifications to move fast and occasionally break things

Enjoy the delights of analytical tasks and logical reasoning

Translate unstructured information of customer data into our software suite

Support in the execution of AGMs on the customer's side

Work together in a diverse team with various cultural backgrounds and life experiences

Requirements

The job is a good fit if you enjoy

Having fun working at a rapidly growing fintech company in Zurich with a great team

Learning from every team member and sharing your experience with everyone on the team

Being ambitious to becoming a domain-specific expert in the field of corporate finance, corporate governance and legal engineering

Basic understanding and interest in collecting and structuring customer requirements for improving the Aequitec product along the customer journey at every point in time

Having a strong interest in learning software engineering management technologies like Scrum or Kanban for efficiently supporting release planning sessions and task executions

Passion for life-long learning about new technologies and toolkits in the broad context
of finance, legal and software engineering (e.g. Blockchain, Tokenized Assets, Smart Contracts, Domain-Driven Design, etc.)

Educational background: You are currently studying for a degree in Law, Engineering, Computer Science, Finance or Economics.

Language skills: Fluent in German & English

Benefits

You will be ...

One of the first 25 team members of a FinTech that scales from Switzerland

Work 80 - 100 percent, have flexible working hours, and be able to work mainly remotely, except for customer visits and team workshops in the Zurich area, in line with Swiss tax regulations

Work with a passionate and experienced team with educational backgrounds from Oxford, NYU, HSG, ETH and relevant work experiences at investment and corporate banks as well as stock exchanges, with diverse interests such as the outdoors, sports, and (board) games

Have a chance to get to know exciting customers, their enterprises and their success stories

Take part in company offsites and regular team activities

For this position, we only accept applications from EU or Swiss residents. Applications from agencies are not accepted.

Finally, please only apply IF you have relevant legal or business experience and fluency in German!