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Entrepreneur in Residence / Strategic Intern - (m/f/d)

CompanyJobLeads GmbH
LocationHamburg
Work ModeOn Site
PostedDecember 19, 2025
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
You will work directly with the Chief Innovation Officer to introduce generative AI across critical areas such as research, business process re-engineering, and internal tooling. This role offers real autonomy and the chance to solve impactful problems for a platform serving millions of users.
Internship Type
full time
Company Size
321
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
JobLeads is a digital career coach enabling professionals worldwide to get the job they desire. Our mission is to digitalize all aspects of career coaching to make it accessible and affordable for every professional. Currently we operate in 40 countries. JobLeads helps over nine million job seekers to achieve their career goals. Through our websites, they get access to thousands of headhunters and job openings from more than 500,000 companies. We make the job market transparent and accessible. In doing so, we provide our customers with the clear sight and good tailwinds needed to navigate this special terrain successfully. Our home port is Hamburg, the gateway to the world. Yet, we have also dropped anchor in a number of other locations – such as Timisoara, Romania. And you find our crew members in many other parts of the world, too. We can proudly say that we are truly international: our wonderful team has members from over 20 nations and our websites are now also available in more than 40 countries.
About the Role

What it's all about

While Your Peers Are Still Reading Academic Papers About AI, You Could Be Deploying It.

You've spent the last year watching generative AI evolve from interesting demos to genuinely transformative technology. You're not just reading the Anthropic release notes—you're already using Claude, GPT-5.1, and every new model that drops to see what's actually possible.

You've automated parts of your own workflow. You've seen exactly how this technology could transform entire industries and the way work in the future. But there's a gap between what you're experimenting with in your dorm room and what's happening in real businesses at scale.

That gap is your opportunity.

Most companies are still forming "AI working groups" and debating governance frameworks.

We're different.
We're shipping AI features for millions of users monthly.
We're re-engineering business processes around AI capabilities.
We're building tools that our 100+ person team uses daily.

And we need someone who gets it—someone who understands this is the biggest platform shift since mobile, and wants to prepare themselves for this new world.

YOUR ROLE

You'll work directly with our Chief Innovation Officer to introduce generative AI across four critical areas:

  • Research & Opportunity Discovery

  • Business Process Re-engineering

  • Internal AI Tooling

  • Executive Support & Strategic Enablement

  • This isn't a "shadow executives and make coffee" internship.
    You'll have real autonomy, real problems to solve, and real impact on a platform serving millions of users.

    This is the first rung on a new career ladder—one that still exists and leads somewhere meaningful.

    WHAT YOU'LL NEED

    The Essentials
    • Top-tier academic foundation

    • Track emerging AI capabilities as they're released (new models, techniques, frameworks)

    • Translate “what’s technically possible” into “what’s strategically valuable for JobLeads”

    • Create concise opportunity briefs that get from idea to decision fast

    • Stay ahead of the curve on what's coming (not just what's here)

    • Analyze how teams currently work and identify AI transformation opportunities

    • Don't just automate existing processes—reimagine them entirely around AI capabilities

    • Work with cross-functional teams to understand pain points and bottlenecks

    • Build business cases showing what’s possible with AI-first workflows

    • Contribute to internal AI tools (prompt libraries, evaluation frameworks, internal agents)

    • Test new capabilities with real use cases across the company

    • Help non-technical teams adopt AI in their workflows

    • Document what works, what doesn’t, and why

    • Prepare decision-ready materials for leadership (decks, memos, analyses)

    • Coordinate cross-departmental AI projects and keep initiatives moving

    • Act as a force multiplier for executive bandwidth—not an assistant

    • Remove friction so leadership can focus on high-impact decisions

    • Currently studying or recently graduated from a leading university

    • Genuine AI enthusiasm—not hype

    • Strategic thinking + execution bias

    • Professional maturity

    Nice to Have (But Seriously, These Matter)
    • Fields: Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Business + Tech, Economics, or related analytical disciplines

    • Demonstrated academic excellence

    • Frequent user of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.)

    • Personal projects with LLMs (even small ones—just show you ship)

    • Follow model releases and research for fun

    • Understand “context window” and “context engineering”

    • Ability to see both strategic implications and implementation details

    • Bias toward action over meetings

    • Comfortable dissecting complex technical concepts (with AI help)

    • Comfortable with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and intense workloads

    • Full-time commitment (40h/week) for 6–12 months (students) or permanent (graduates)

    • Available to start within 1–3 months

    • Independent, self-directed researcher

    • Strong English communication

    • Basic coding (Python, JavaScript, or similar) is a major plus

    • Experience with AI dev frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.)

    • Understanding of context engineering, prompt engineering

    • Prior fast-paced tech company experience

    • Portfolio of AI projects (GitHub, blog, demos)

    • Contributions to AI communities or open-source

    WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT

    Blunt truth: Most "AI internships" are hedges. They'll have you do market research, maybe build a POC that never ships, then send you back to school with a nice resume line.

    We're not hedging.
    AI is core to our product strategy, and you’ll be working directly with our CIO at the highest strategic level—not buried in hierarchy.

    WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT ON BOARD

    If You're Still Studying

    • 6–12 month immersive experience at the forefront of applied AI

    • Work that forms the foundation of a killer portfolio

    • Direct mentorship from leadership with investment banking & top-tier consulting backgrounds

    • Real equity in the outcomes—your work ships to millions

    • Competitive compensation

    If You're a Recent Graduate
    • Permanent role as Entrepreneur in Residence

    • Help shape AI strategy for a company with millions of users

    • Build expertise that will be invaluable when companies finally catch up

    • Work directly with C-level leadership

    • Remote-first flexibility (or Hamburg office)

    • Competitive salary

    • Portfolio-building opportunities

    • AI-empowered culture: 100+ people executing on AI strategy

    • Super international team, zero bureaucracy

    • Company perks: annual Mediterranean sailing week, EU team meetup

    WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS FOR YOUR CAREER

    The working world is changing faster than universities can adapt.

    Entry-level roles are disappearing—AI is taking over tasks juniors used to do. The bottom rungs of the career ladder are being removed.


    You have two choices:

  • Wait and graduate into a world where "entry-level" means 2+ years of experience.

  • Act now and build the experience that will be impossible to get in 2–3 years.

  • This role gives you something rare:
    The chance to work on state-of-the-art AI in a real business with real users.

    Not a lab.
    Not a slow enterprise.
    A company shipping AI products weekly.

    You'll learn:

    • How to evaluate emerging AI for business impact

    • How to redesign processes for AI, not automate old ones

    • How to bridge technical possibility with strategic value

    • How to ship AI products at scale

    • How to influence tech strategy at the executive level

    Real hands-on experience is the hardest currency right now.

    WHY THIS MATTERS BEYOND YOUR CAREER

    We’re on the side of the job seeker.
    Our mission: make high-quality career coaching accessible to everyone worldwide.
    Unlike traditional job boards, we earn revenue from job seekers, not employers—so every AI feature we build answers one question:

    “Does this help job seekers land better jobs faster?”

    When you innovate here, you help millions:

    • Navigate an automated job market

    • Stand out in AI-filtered processes

    • Access coaching once reserved for executives

    If you're going to invest years mastering applied AI, why not do it to help people, not optimize ads or automate layoffs?

    We operate in 40+ countries, reach millions monthly, and are fully remote, diverse, and supportive.

    Our AI culture:

    • Not experimenting—already in production

    • Weekly AI feature releases

    • Decisions based on what works, not committees

    • Perfect for people frustrated by slow-moving organizations

    The AI revolution has started.

    If you're wondering when it's your turn—this is it.

    Key Skills
    Generative AIResearchBusiness Process Re-engineeringAI ToolingStrategic EnablementOpportunity DiscoveryCross-Functional CollaborationAI TransformationAnalytical SkillsDocumentationProject CoordinationCommunicationCodingAI FrameworksContext EngineeringPrompt Engineering
    Categories
    TechnologyData & AnalyticsConsultingManagement & LeadershipSoftware
    Benefits
    Competitive CompensationAnnual Mediterranean Sailing WeekEU Team Meetup