Founders Associate Intern (m/w/d)

About the role

Do you want to experience first-hand how a start-up operates and make a real impact from day one? Are you looking for an extraordinary opportunity to work directly with experienced founders, including the CEO, and gain invaluable insights into building and scaling a company? Then this is your chance to be part of something transformative—while working on exciting projects involving some of the most prominent media stars and influencers of the younger generation, like Luciano!

As a Founders Associate intern, you’ll take on significant responsibility and ownership right from the start. You’ll lead and support high-impact projects across the entire organization, learning about every aspect of an early-stage start-up. Working closely with our founders and leadership team, you’ll not only contribute your ideas but also help drive our vision forward.
Next available Slots are in fall 2026.

What you will do:

• Project management: You will work on various important projects simultaneously that include multiple different stakeholders from both inside and outside the organisation.
• Screen candidates: You will be screening potential candidates and help to build up the team and culture. Allowing us to hire the most talented candidates that fit into our growing team.
• Presentations: You will directly support the C-Level with preparing presentations for external stakeholders
• Build playbooks : As a Founders Associate intern, you will implement and improve operational processes across the entire organisation. Enabling us to scale our business.
• Be entrepreneurial : solutions driven, and capable of thinking outside of the box.

What You Can Expect

• Learn by Doing: Gain hands-on experience in entrepreneurship and start-up building.
• Dedicated Mentorship: Work closely with a leadership team mentor to support your growth.
• Cross-Functional Rotations: Explore key departments like tech, finance, marketing, operations, and growth.
• Exclusive Access: Join private talks with Europe’s top founders, exclusively for the LANCH team.
• Fundraising Insights: Master fundraising in a full-day session, including e.g., pitch deck creation, strategy, and a live call with a VC General Partner.

About you

To succeed in this role, you:

• Possess excellent communication skills in german and english, both written and verbal.
• Are currently pursuing your Master’s degree in business studies or a related field.
• Bring at least 2 years of experience in a fast-paced environment, such as a start-up, investment banking, or consulting.
• Have hands-on experience with Google Workspace tools, particularly Google Sheets.
• Demonstrate exceptional analytical skills, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to take ownership of impactful projects.
• Are highly motivated to contribute to building a start-up from the ground up.
• Exhibit a hands-on mentality and a willingness to go above and beyond to achieve results.
• Apply critical thinking and strategic insight to evaluate and implement the best possible outcomes.

Additional Information:
We prioritize candidates who are available for 4 to 6 months. However, if your availability is shorter, we encourage you to explore our Entrepreneur in Residence program as an alternative opportunity.

About us

At LANCH , we empower small gastronomy owners by giving them the tools needed to make food delivery fun again. We are building the world’s biggest virtual food court by creating high-quality delivery brands together with the megastars of our generation. LANCH is food delivery built for 2024. Backed by HV Capital, Felix Capital and a bunch of superstar angels such as the founders of FlixBus, Gorillas, Flaschenpost, Glovo, Foodspring, Foodora, Honest Food, Finleap and the most known YouTubers, rap stars and athletes of our time.

LIFE AT LANCH

• A steep learning curve with a high career growth trajectory and massive ownership
• Hybrid working and flexible working hours combined with a fair target salary
• Offsite team events and regular get-togethers
• Unique team spirit and flat hierarchies
• Amazing 40 people team & highly experienced leadership team to learn from
• Value-centered decision making: fast, transparent, creative and fun
• Team offsites every 16 weeks to come together in-person & strengthen our relationships
• Complete ownership on every level