Internship - Founders Office (Talent)

The role

You will work alongside the founding team to build the hiring engine and find talent. You will also work on operations and strategic projects.

What you will do

• Help build the hiring engine behind telli's growth
• Spot outlier candidates through LinkedIn, Juicebox, communities, referrals and new channels
• Write signal-based outreach
• Run first interviews to assess fit and pitch telli
• Own hiring pipelines across teams from outreach to offer
• Keep hiring managers and interviewers aligned
• Track the funnel per role and fix friction
• Build automations and AI workflows for sourcing, messaging, interview prep and candidate coordination
• Help shape how telli shows up as an employer through job posts, social content and events
• Pick up first ops and strategic projects alongside the founders' office

Required qualifications

• Hands-on and not afraid of unglamorous work
• Open, curious and love meeting new people
• An eye for what makes someone exceptional
• Ability to sell and handle objections
• Take ownership, move fast and follow up with urgency
• Data-minded, tech- and AI-savvy
• Communicate clearly and top-down in English and German
• First experience in recruiting, sales, a startup or your own projects
• Could imagine joining full-time after the internship

About the company

telli helps companies build, deploy, and improve consumer-facing AI voice agents at scale. It is a small, AI-pilled team that builds, experiments, and moves fast.