Business Operations Intern

KinetiCAD; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

KinetiCAD Solutions in Berkeley, CA is seeking a versatile generalist who will help with fundraising, pricing, partnerships, research, and operations under the founder. You will take tasks off the founder's desk, build investor materials, develop pricing models, establish collaborations with machine builders and suppliers, and help run contracts and accelerator programs.

This role offers hands-on exposure to how a hardware/software startup scales from the inside, with opportunities to contribute

Qualifications

• Currently studying business, economics or engineering, or you just graduated.
• You’re good with spreadsheets and you write well.
• You’re structured and self-directed, and you finish things without anyone chasing you.
• You’re comfortable with numbers and with people.

Responsibilities

• Help with fundraising. That means investor research and the pipeline, pitch materials, the data room and follow-ups after meetings.
• Research markets and competitors, and write up what you find in short memos with sources.
• Build pricing and unit economics models.
• Help set up partnerships with machine builders, tooling suppliers and software companies.
• Run operations, like contracts, hiring, grants and accelerator programs, and vendors.

Skills

Spreadsheet proficiency

Written communication

Self-directed

Education

Business / Economics / Engineering student or recent graduate

Job description

A generalist role covering fundraising, research, pricing, partnerships and operations at a manufacturing software company, working directly with the founder.

About KinetiCAD

KinetiCAD reads a part's CAD model and its technical drawing and works out how a machine shop should make it. It picks the machine, the tools and the operations, and it writes the CNC program. It also prices the job and books the machine time. We're based at the Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator.

The role

This is a generalist job with a lot of variety. You take work off my desk and run it yourself, whether that's the investor pipeline, a pricing model or a partnership with a machine or tooling company. You'll see how a company gets built from the inside.

What you will do

• Help with fundraising. That means investor research and the pipeline, pitch materials, the data room and follow-ups after meetings.
• Research markets and competitors, and write up what you find in short memos with sources.
• Build pricing and unit economics models.
• Help set up partnerships with machine builders, tooling suppliers and software companies.
• Run operations, like contracts, hiring, grants and accelerator programs, and vendors.

What you bring

• You're studying business, economics or engineering, or you just graduated.
• You're good with spreadsheets and you write well. You can take something complicated and make it short and clear.
• You're structured and self-directed, and you finish things without anyone chasing you.
• You're comfortable with numbers and with people.

Strong plus

• Earlier internships at a startup, or in consulting, venture capital or banking.
• Interest in manufacturing or hardware.
• German, since we work with partners and customers in Germany.