Founder's Associate (Commercial) - Internship

Urban Connect; Schlieren; Vor Ort; CHF 13.000 - 20.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Freedom to shape role

Fast feedback from caring leadership

Access to company fleet: e-bikes and e

ecars

Zusammenfassung

Urban Connect is seeking a Founder's Associate to work closely with the founders and management on a broad range of commercial, product, and internal topics. You will sit near decision-makers, contribute your own thinking, and own the work you take on as the company grows.

In this internship role, you'll support the sales process, build compelling pitches, run product demos, shape demand generation, and analyze data to back strategic decisions.

Qualifikationen

• Degree in business, economics, marketing, or AI/ML with business track.
• Business-fluent German and English; French and/or Italian a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Proficient with Excel and PowerPoint.
• Comfort with data and numbers; enjoy digging into details.
• Willing to take ownership and adapt to changing priorities.
• Able to pitch in wherever needed; no task beneath you.
• Comfortable with a wide and shifting range of responsibilities.
• Interest in AI and tech; proactive about new ways of working.

Aufgaben

• Sales support across the entire sales process and pipeline management.
• Build pitch decks, proposals, and sales materials for clients and internal use.
• Demonstrate our solutions through product demos.
• Shape demand generation through campaigns, events, and discovery meetings.
• Analyze data and build business cases to back decisions.
• Improve internal processes and reduce manual work.
• Use AI tools to speed up established processes and adopt them across the team.
• Keep CRM accurate, current, and truly useful.

Kenntnisse

German language

English language

Data analysis

Written communication

Presentation skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Decision making

Teamwork

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

AI/ML or data science with business track

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Jobbeschreibung

As our Founder's Associate, you'll work closely with the founders and the management team on a wide range of what the company does, from commercial- and product-related topics, to internal processes and everything in between.

You will sit close to where decisions get made, bring your own thinking to them, and take real ownership of the work that follows. At our size that adds up to a lot - most of what you touch will be visible to the whole company within weeks, days, or even hours.

As our Founder's Associate, you'll work closely with the founders and the management team on a wide range of what the company does, from commercial- and product-related topics, to internal processes and everything in between.

You will sit close to where decisions get made, bring your own thinking to them, and take real ownership of the work that follows. At our size that adds up to a lot - most of what you touch will be visible to the whole company within weeks, days, or even hours.

Tasks

• Sales support: You support the commercial team across the whole sales process and help keep a pipeline of qualified, interested leads moving.
• Pitches and presentations: You build convincing pitch decks, proposals and sales materials for clients and for internal use.
• Product demos: You present our solutions to clients and show what they actually do for them.
• Demand generation: You help shape how we reach new clients - campaigns, events, discovery meetings - working with our team and our external partners.
• Analysis and business cases: You put numbers behind commercial decisions and turn data into something the team can act on.
• Internal business development: You get involved in how the company runs, improve processes and take out the manual work that eats people's time.
• AI and automation: You use AI tools to make established processes faster, and help the rest of the team get as comfortable with them as you are.
• CRM: You keep our CRM genuinely useful (accurate, current, and actually used).
• And whatever else comes up: At our size, priorities move. Some of the most interesting work you do will be things nobody planned for at the start.

Requirements

• An ongoing or completed degree(s), ideally in business, economics, marketing, or in AI, ML, or data science with a business track alongside it. Some first practical experience."
• Business-fluent German and English. Proficiency in French and/or Italian is a strong plus.
• You make a point clearly and briefly, in writing and in front of people.
• Confident and proficient with Excel and PowerPoint.
• You're comfortable with data and complex numbers, and you enjoy getting to the bottom of things.
• You'd rather start, learn and adjust than wait for the perfect plan. You take decisions in your area and own the outcome.
• You pitch in wherever it's needed and no task is beneath you.
• You're at ease with a wide and shifting range of responsibilities, and you like it that way.
• You use AI tools regularly and keep pushing at what they can take off people's plates, you have a genuine interest in the new ways of working and capabilities of AI and tech.
• You're reliable, and you enjoy working with people.

You don't need to tick every box. If you're missing one and think you'd be great here anyway, tell us why in your application.

Benefits

• A varied and demanding role with a lot of freedom to shape it.
• Real responsibility from week one, and fast, direct feedback from people who care whether you get better.
• The chance to develop in the areas that genuinely interest you, we back people over processes.
• A strong, no-ego team spirit.
• Access to our own fleet: e-bikes and e-cars.
• Where the fit is right, our clear goal is to convert to a full-time role. That's the point of the internship, for us and for you.

Ready to build the future?

If you are intellectually curious, ambitious and excited by solving meaningful problems, we'd love to hear from you.