Founder's Associate Business Development (Intern Working Student)
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Posted on:
16-10-2025
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
acemate is building the leading AI learning & teaching platform for higher education institutions. We have strong traction secured funding and are entering an exciting growth phase. Were looking for a passionate Founders Associate to drive our product forward and help us scale.
About acemate
Founded less than a year ago acemate has quickly become Germanys leading AI learning platform for higher and further education trusted by top-tier institutions across four countries including University of Cologne WHU and the Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer (DIHK).
- Our Mission: Democratizing access to personalized learning. We dont believe that AI will replace educators. Instead we empower them to design and deliver personalized learning experiences at scale.
- Our Growth: Weve raised pre-seed funding and are growing rapidly. While we focus on higher education today were already expanding into new regions and markets.
- Our Culture: Were a young driven team passionate about tackling the toughest challenges in education. We embrace builder culture and minimize scheduled meetings for ad-hoc discussions and maximized focus on coding and creating.
Meet the Team
- Antong (CEO): BCG BMW & Antler background leads business strategy DJ by night
- Jan (CTO): NLP research experience from SAP & N26 morning bike commuter
- Paul (CPO): Product expert with startup and education research background devoted dog dad
- Emile (Fullstack): Ex-founder with product & AI background ETH graduate avid runner
- Anas (Fullstack): TypeScript specialist functional programming enthusiast chief photography officer
- Rohit (Fullstack): Specialist in modern large-scale web architecture escape room explorer
- Ammar (Fullstack): Exfounder with webdev and blockchain experience a learning violinist
Tasks
What Youll Do
As Founders Associate Intern / Working Student youll work directly with Antong (CEO) and Paul (CPO) on high-impact topics across strategy sales marketing product operations and growth.
Tasks:
- Drive strategic initiatives: from market expansion and pricing to new partnerships and product launches
- Support the sales cycle: help identify promising leads prepare sales calls and play a key role in moving opportunities forward
- Boost our B2C presence: from social media (organic paid influencer) to SEO/SEA referral loops ambassador programs and other initiatives
- Turn data into action: analyze product data and user behavior to identify growth levers and test monetization ideas
- Build our brand: contribute to our content events community and thought leadership
- Take charge of internal ops: improve workflows processes and help us scale internal systems across finance investor relations and tooling
Requirements
What Were Looking For
- Relevant experience: Youve worked in startups consulting VC investment banking or other fast-paced high-performance environments
- Strategic & hands-on: You can zoom out and think big but youre just as ready to roll up your sleeves and execute
- Analytical mindset: Youre comfortable with numbers structured thinking and turning data into decisions
- Excellent communicator: Youre fluent in both German & English and comfortable leading conversations with users customers and decision-makers
- Commitment to excellence: Youre driven to go above and beyond when it matters
- AI-native: You integrate AI in almost every workflow without outsourcing your thinking
- Availability: Youre available for 3-6 months
Benefits
Benefits
- Option to continue as a working student
- Working in a small but driven team built around performance and learning
- Flexible environment with high degree of autonomy and option to work remotely
- Frequent team events and acemate parties!
Ready to Join Us
Send us your CV and anything else youd like us to see and lets build the future of education together.
Key Skills
- Revenue Growth
- Customer Services
- Business Analysis
- Business Administration
- Account Management
- Business Management
- Database
- Business Operations
- Business Sales
- Salesforce
- Market Research
- Product Management
- Client Services
- Business Relationships
- Sales Process
About Company
acemate is on a mission to democratize access to personalized education. Our AI learning platform transforms uploaded documents into exams, mind maps, and more, providing university students with a personalized learning experience and real-time feedback. We also help educators automat ... View more
