Founding SDR / GTM Intern (m/f/d)

Vanilla Steel GmbH; Berlin; Híbrido; EUR 22.000 - 28.000; A tiempo parcial

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid work format

Office in Prenzlauer Berg

Urban Sports Club

Deutschlandticket

Team events

Friday drinks

Descripción de la vacante

Vanilla Steel GmbH in Berlin is hiring for an outbound sales role. You will phone German steel traders and distributors, build a sales pipeline, and extend the AI outbound engine under the guidance of the founders. A Werkstudent setup (16–20 hours/week) is available from the winter semester.

You should be comfortable with German communication, a student or recent graduate, and eager to learn as you grow our sales and AI tools in a fast-paced startup.

Formación

• Must be fluent in German and able to run an outbound call with a German industrial customer end to end.
• Enrolled student or recent graduate; growth mindset and initiative are valued.
• Comfortable with software and AI tools; willingness to automate or build simple tools.

Responsabilidades

• Reach out and close outbound opportunities with German steel traders and distributors.
• Build the sales pipeline and extend the AI outbound engine.
• Help build the company brand and engage with founders on early customers.

Descripción del empleo

Your mission We are a Berlin-based startup transforming how industrial materials are bought and sold across Europe. One of the oldest industries in the world still runs on Excel, PDF and email. We are replacing that with AI that runs the buying and selling workflow end to end, increasing liquidity, speeding up transactions and reducing waste for hundreds of steel and metal distributors.

Your mission We are a Berlin-based startup transforming how industrial materials are bought and sold across Europe. One of the oldest industries in the world still runs on Excel, PDF and email. We are replacing that with AI that runs the buying and selling workflow end to end, increasing liquidity, speeding up transactions and reducing waste for hundreds of steel and metal distributors. We have strong early traction, real enterprise customers and committed investors. We are a lean, technical team scaling our enterprise pilots and building the AI infrastructure underneath them. Your job is to open doors and win conversations. You partner closely with Co-founder Simon, who owns sales. You will spend real time on the phone with German steel traders and distributors, and you will build the systems and tools that make every call sharper. This is a hands-on role with four pillars, and the first one is where you will make your mark.

Prefer to work alongside your studies? We are also open to a Werkstudent setup at 16 to 20 hours per week from the winter semester. Just say so in your application.

• Reach out and close

• Build the pipeline

• Extend our AI outbound engine

• Help build the brand

Your profile You are genuinely comfortable picking up the phone, and you like finding smarter ways to work. The one non-negotiable: you can sell in German. Everything else you can grow into here.

• Excellent written and verbal communication in German (C1 or C2 must have, native not required) and solid English. You can run an outbound call with a German industrial customer end to end, and you are not thrown by a cold conversation.
• Enrolled student or recent graduate. We care about how you think and what you have built, not your years of experience.
• Comfortable with software, and keen to use AI tools like Cursor or Claude to work smarter. If you can build or automate things yourself, even better, though you do not need to be an engineer.
• Resourceful and thick-skinned. You take initiative instead of waiting to be told, and a "no" does not slow you down.
• Organized, and genuinely bothered by messy data.
• Nice to have: your own outreach or sales experience; a side project you have shipped; a portfolio, brand, or content you have built (a site, a social account, a newsletter); Python, React, or GTM tools like Clay, Apollo or HubSpot.

Why us?

• €2,000 to €2,500 per month, depending on experience.
• Real ownership from day one: you run your own outbound, and you watch the meetings you book turn into real deals.
• Work directly with the founders and learn how a startup wins its first customers from zero, in a real industry.
• Senior co-founders who are operators, not pitch-deck founders. Decisions happen fast.
• Subsidised Urban Sports Club membership and Deutschlandticket.
• Hybrid work format, office in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.
• Regular team events, company breakfasts and Friday drinks.

About Us We are a Berlin-based startup that has successfully established a leading digital-first trading company for industrial metals across Europe. The multi-billion-euro metal trading industry is operated on Excel, PDF and Email. Our mission is to integrate smart technology and data to drive every decision, transaction, and workflow in the steel industry. Our technologies & services increase liquidity, accelerate transactions, reduce scrapping rates and enhance trading convenience for hundreds of steel and metal distributors across Europe.