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Founders Associate to the CPO (Working Student, all genders)

München, Hybrid, Leipzig
Part-time
Working Student

Your mission

You work directly with our CPO on whatever moves the company most — right now that means fundraising operations and US market entry; next semester it might be a strategic partnership, competitive research, or building an internal process from zero.

What that means: This is not a typical working-student job. You will own real workstreams end-to-end, see investor and enterprise-customer material from the inside, and learn how a company at this stage is actually built — compressed into the hours next to your degree. Strong performance here converts naturally into a full-time role after graduation.


  • Fundraising and investor operations. Support the operational side of our fundraising: investor CRM upkeep, data room maintenance, meeting preparation, follow-ups, and research on funds and partners.
  • US expansion support. Research on target accounts and partners, preparation of enterprise meetings, and follow-through on the opportunities the founders open.
  • Strategic projects. Own scoped cross-functional projects — competitive analysis, pricing research, internal tooling, process building. Scope fits your hours; ownership doesn’t shrink.
  • CPO leverage. Prepare decisions, structure information, draft communication, and remove operational friction.

What success looks like:

  • 3 months: The CPO hands you a scoped topic and stops worrying about it.
  • 12 months: You own recurring workstreams outright, have shipped at least one project with visible company-level impact — and we’re discussing your full-time offer.

Your profile

  • Enrolled student (Bachelor’s or Master’s) — business, engineering, economics, or comparable; enrolled status is required for the working-student contract
  • Sharp analytical and writing skills; you structure messy problems fast
  • Extreme ownership: you close loops without being chased
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, context-switching, and direct feedback
  • Fluent German and English (C1+)
  • Based in or near [Leipzig / Munich], with [X days/week — specify] in office

Nice to have, not required:

  • First internship or working-student experience in a startup, consulting, or VC environment
  • Exposure to B2B SaaS or hospitality
  • Hands-on skills with modern tooling (Notion, CRM systems, AI tools — we expect heavy AI usage in daily work)

Why us?

We are the technology company rethinking group and event sales in hospitality. What runs today through inboxes, spreadsheets and phone calls, our platform Rocket turns into one continuous, AI-supported process — from the first enquiry to the signed contract. European hotel groups already run their group sales on it.
What that means for you: you work with AI, not despite it. People who join us give feedback that shapes product decisions — and sooner or later come to understand why one prompt works better than another.
And because we are growing fast, a lot here is still taking shape. Sometimes the honest answer is “we’re still building that.” That is exactly where the opportunity lies: you will find open space rather than finished structures, and what you build here will carry your signature.

What we offer

  • Work with real AI technology at international level — not as a pilot project, but as our business model.
  • Genuine room to shape things. Your ideas do not land in a suggestion box; they land in the next iteration.
  • A short path to the management team. Decisions take days, not committee rounds.
  • Growth you are part of. We are building the company’s next chapter — with roles, responsibility and prospects that did not exist a year ago.
  • Leipzig as your primary base, with regular time in the office and flexible remote work. Hybrid models are everyday practice here, not the exception.
  • Permanent contract, full-time.
  • Performance bonuses for demonstrable results.
  • Multi-day team events in places that are actually fun.

Our hiring process

  1. Intro interview — we get to know each other, and you learn where we stand and where we are heading.
  2. Case study or technical study, depending on the role — a real problem from our day-to-day that we work through together.
  3. Interview with your future manager and, depending on the position, with our founders.
From the first conversation to a decision takes at most four weeks. And you will hear from us either way — including when it is not a fit this time.

About us

MICE DESK is the leading technology partner in global group and convention sales – and is developing the first agentic operating system for the hospitality industry.
Our core product, Rocket, automates the entire group and convention sales process: from analysing enquiries and checking availability to integrating revenue data, creating quotes and finalising contracts. What currently takes hotels an average of two hours, Rocket completes in minutes.

What makes us unique: We don’t just build the platform. Where required, we also support our clients through a dedicated booking centre – our MICE DESK Crew – which provides hotels with direct support from experienced MICE professionals. AI and people working as a true partnership – not as a compromise.