Autarcenergy
Visiting Founders’ Associate - Sales (all genders)
BerlinGermany
Junior · full-time, intern · Sales
POSTED 22 SEPT
49 days opentrue age
€45k–€61kno pay posted
- Market p25–p75
- €45k–€61k
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Your Impact
Location: Berlin, Invalidenstraße
Duration: 6 months, start in January 2027
- Build pipeline: Identify promising businesses, reach decision-makers and create opportunities through calls, email, LinkedIn and new approaches you want to test.
- Learn to sell from first contact to close: Understand customer needs, deliver product demos, prepare proposals and handle objections. With coaching from the team, take increasing ownership of negotiations and closing.
- Build new acquisition engines: Find an untapped customer segment, test a partnership or develop a new outreach campaign. Own the experiment from the initial hypothesis to the first customers.
- Turn results into repeatable processes: Work out why an approach succeeds, document what you learn and build playbooks the team can use and scale.
- Use data to get better: Track your pipeline, conversion rates and won revenue. Identify where deals stall and use the findings to improve your next conversation or experiment.
- Put AI to work: Use AI and automation to accelerate research, personalise outreach and streamline follow-ups, giving you more time with customers.
What you bring
- You are currently studying, have recently graduated or bring comparable practical experience.
- You want a steep learning curve: You’re ready to learn by doing, take on unfamiliar challenges and apply direct feedback quickly.
- You thrive at a fast pace: You turn ideas into action, make decisions with incomplete information and take responsibility for moving things forward.
- You’re ready to put in the hours: This is an intensive, hands-on opportunity. You bring energy, commitment and the ambition to make the most of it. In return, you gain real responsibility, close mentorship and the chance to develop quickly.
- You want to win customers: You’re excited to pick up the phone, lead conversations and work towards closing your own deals.
- You combine creativity with follow-through: You come up with fresh approaches, test them in the market and stay accountable for the results.
- You communicate confidently in German and English and want to work alongside our team in Berlin.
- Previous experience in sales, business development, a startup or your own project is a plus.
What we offer
- Grow with us: As part of a fast-growing, YC-backed climate tech startup with an ambitious team.
- Real ownership: Drive your work from idea to impact.
- Low ego, high trust: No blame, open feedback, collaboration over hierarchy.
- Be part of the energy transition: Help bring more heat pumps and solar to homes every day.
- Hybrid work in Berlin-Mitte: 3 days together in our office near Weinbergspark, 2 from home. Need more flexibility? We'll find a way.
- Modern equipment: MacBook and 27″ monitor.
- Annual team retreat plus regular team events.
- Mobility: Dance e-bike or Deutschland-Ticket.
- Fitness: Urban Sports Club membership.
Next steps
- Culture fit conversation: Tell us about your motivation, ambitions and how you like to work.
- In-depth interview: Explore your experience, approach and what it takes to succeed in the role.
- Case study: Show us how you think and tackle a practical sales challenge.