Strategy & Operations Intern

The role

You will work with the founding team on strategic and operational topics. You will support growth, product, and operations through data analysis, recruiting, market research, and cross-team coordination.

What you will do

• Support the founders with strategic projects across growth, product, and operations.
• Analyze data and create reports to help inform key business and product decisions.
• Support recruiting and HR operations, from sourcing and coordinating interviews to keeping the candidate pipeline running.
• Research markets, competitors, and customer needs to identify new opportunities and risks.
• Help coordinate and execute cross-team initiatives between Product, Growth, and Engineering.
• Take ownership of ad-hoc projects like testing new GTM ideas or improving internal processes.

Required qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program in Business, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Track record of excellence, for example through top academic results or first internships in startups, consulting, VC, or banking.
• Based in Berlin or able to relocate.
• Highly structured, organized, and able to manage multiple topics in parallel.
• Enjoys working with data, building models, and turning insights into action.
• Proactive, curious, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
• Strong written and verbal English skills.

Nice to have

• Built or led something yourself, such as a side project, student initiative, or small venture.
• Genuine curiosity for open source, developer tools, and how technical products work under the hood.

Benefits

• Real impact on NetBird's trajectory.
• Direct exposure to founders.
• Steep learning curve.
• Career opportunities to transition into a permanent role.
• Hybrid work setup.
• Team lunches.
• Events.
• Access to health and fitness programs (e.g., Wellpass).

About the company

NetBird is a software company developing an open source zero-trust network security platform. The team is from Germany and aims to make advanced network security accessible for everyone.