Founders Associate Intern - Special Projects

As Founders Associate Intern (Special Projects), you sit at the founders' side working directly with Beni (CEO), Niklas (COO) and Shane (CTO) on the problems that don't have an owner yet. Hiring, partnerships, operations, product, strategy: whatever the week needs, you take a piece of it and run.

What you'll do

• Work directly with the founders on the problems that matter — strategy, ops, product, hiring, whatever the week demands. You take a piece and own it end to end.
• Turn ambiguity into shipped work. You get problems, not task lists. You write the plan, execute it, and don't need to be chased for progress.
• Build the systems opus runs on: hiring pipelines, onboarding docs, reporting cadences, internal knowledge.
• Turn research into decisions. Market, customers, competitors, potential hires, potential partners. You dig, you write it up in a memo the founders can act on in ten minutes.
• Make the founders sharper. Every deck you prep, every KPI you clean up, every memo you write is one less thing the founders have to think about.

What you'll need

• High agency. You take a problem, write the plan, ship the outcome. You don't wait to be told what to do.
• Sharp writing and thinking. You turn messy inputs into clear, short memos the founders can act on. Structure comes naturally to you.
• Builder mindset. If something is missing, you build it. You iterate, you improve, you don't over-polish.
• Prior experience in high pace environments — a startup internship, an MBB or IB stint, a side project you scaled.
• AI-native by default. Claude for memos, Cursor for prototypes, whatever workflow gets it done fastest.
• Available for 3 to 6 months, in person in Berlin. Start ASAP.

What they offer

• Competitive compensation with real ownership in opus' long-term success.
• High ownership, fast customer feedback, responsibility for outcomes.
• AI-first, builder environment with the best tools and strong bias to ship and learn.
• 28 vacation days and flexibility when you need to recharge.