Founders Associate - Strategic Projects | CEO Office (m/f/d) - Internship/Working Student

About boOst

We, the Startup Factory in Central Germany, are looking for support in the area of Semiconductor Ecosystem Management.

boOst is the deep-tech ecosystem for startup culture in Central Germany. Together with 9 other Startup Factories across Germany, we are driving the founding and growth of science-based spin-offs. Together with universities, universities of applied sciences, as well as accelerators, entrepreneurial personalities, and players from the business world, we are building an ecosystem for growth-oriented startups and scale-ups. And launching a new movement for more entrepreneurship in society.

boOst focuses on technologies in the areas of Semiconductor Systems, Biotech, and Optics/Photonics to support startups from science in their founding and growth.

Your Role

As a working student or intern, you will not only support management – you will increase their impact. As a Founders Associate, you will work directly with the two managing directors and take on projects that currently have the greatest leverage for boOst: from initial research to the signed contract.

You don't have to have done everything before. We are looking for someone with good judgment, initiative, and the ambition to become really good quickly. The pace is high, the work is intensive – and you will grow into more responsibility with each project.

Your Tasks

• Attract people we wouldn't otherwise meet. Identify mentors, coaches, speakers, and experts for our programs and support recruitment for the growing boOst team.

• Take on Special Projects from start to finish. Set up new formats, calculate business cases, and prepare decision memos and advisory board documents.

• Be where it matters right now. Step in for analyses, presentations, and stakeholder meetings when management needs short-term support.

You fit with us if you …

• are studying or are just before or after graduation. For the working student position, you are enrolled; for the internship, both are possible. The field of study is secondary.

• do more than necessary. Internships in consulting, VC, startups, or corporate development, your own startup, or involvement in initiatives and scholarship programs demonstrate this.

• have high standards and work for them. You take responsibility, deliver even under time pressure, and look for a better way when something doesn't work.

• turn ambiguity into a plan. You think structurally and analytically and translate insights into action.

• communicate confidently. With managing directors, professors, and partners – in German and English, spoken and written.

• learn quickly and use AI as a matter of course. Slides and Excel are a given; Deep Tech, semiconductors, or startup ecosystems interest you.

Why boOst?

• Direct line to management: You will learn firsthand how to build an organization, negotiate partnerships, and implement strategy.

• Responsibility from day 1: Your projects have a visible impact on boOst and the ecosystem in Central Germany.

• A network that opens doors: Founders, researchers, industry partners, investors, and 10 Startup Factories nationwide.

• A team in build-up mode: Grown from 0 to 14 people in one year – with scope for design and a culture that rewards courage.

• A springboard: The role is the ideal entry into startups, VC, or strategy.

Framework

• Model: Working student with 20 hours/week or long-term internship full-time (minimum 6 months).

• Location: Leipzig, hybrid; regular presence on-site and travel within Central Germany.

• Start: from now.

Applications from all over Germany are expressly welcome.

Application

Send us your CV or LinkedIn link and a few sentences about the project you are most proud of – and what you achieved with it. Please indicate whether you are applying as a working student or for an internship and when you are available.

Sounds like you? Then let's talk. Apply now or spread the word!

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