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theInterna

Founder's Associate

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London, United kingdom

Fresher

Internship

17-02-2026

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Skills

Communication Leadership Sales CRM Attention to detail Marketing

Job Specifications

This internship must be part of your degree to be considered for this role.

We are a growth partner agency for forward-thinking, mission-driven brands. We advise C-Suite leaders on holistic growth strategy while deeply integrating with their in-house marketing, product, and sales teams to help them scale with purpose.

We specialise in working with early-stage startups and scale-ups in sectors like ClimateTech, HRTech, HealthTech, FinTech, EdTech, InsurTech, and AI, as well as other values-led brands across the UK, US, and Europe.

We care deeply about alignment, quality, and empathy. The people who thrive here think like founders, take ownership, and make things happen.

Who You Are

You’re an early-career operator who loves making complex things simple, and big ideas executable. You’re obsessed with clarity, follow-through, and making sure nothing “falls between the cracks.”

You’re excited by sales, marketing, GTM strategy, and the inner workings of a growing company. You like building systems as much as you like getting things done day-to-day. You’re happy being behind the scenes, making sure the Founder is in the right place, with the right information, doing the right work.

You’re not scared of spreadsheets, CRMs, transcripts, or messy pipelines. In fact, you like turning chaos into clean boards, clear priorities, and simple checklists.

The Role

This is a high-exposure execution role where you’ll act as the Founder’s force multiplier — with a special focus on:

Sales Operations
Marketing Operations
Executive Function (C-Suite Enablement)
Reducing Founder friction

You’ll sit at the heart of our GTM engine, helping build and run the systems that will take us to £1M ARR in 2026.

This role is perfect for someone who wants to learn GTM, agency operations, sales, and strategy by working directly with the Founder, Managing Director (MD), and Chief of Staff (CoS).

You will ensure that:

Sales + Marketing workflows are organised, clear, and consistently followed.
The Founder arrives to every external meeting prepped, and leaves every meeting with structured follow-ups.
Outreach, nurturing, and pipeline hygiene are maintained.
Marketing assets and content get created, organised, and operationalised.
No lead, insight, or next step is ever lost.
Founder time is spent on high-value work, not admin or friction tasks.

Good News

If you love being the person who makes everything run smoothly, you’ll thrive here.

If you enjoy turning chaos into clean systems, big ideas into actionable plans, and messy conversations into crisp notes and next steps — you’ll be in your element.

If you’ve been looking for a role where you can learn cutting-edge strategy and execution in sales, marketing, growth strategy, and operations directly from a Founder and senior leadership team, this is that role.

You’ll see the immediate impact of your work in:

Pipeline quality (i.e. more qualified leads, higher conversion rates)
Revenue growth
Founder capacity
And the overall health of our GTM engine

Within 30–60 days you are:

Confidently maintaining CRM hygiene and tracking key deals
Producing clear meeting notes, follow-ups, and next step summaries
Keeping the Founder Action Register accurate and up-to-date
Supporting the Founder in all external sales, BD, and podcast-related activity
Drafting content outlines and supporting LinkedIn / marketing work

By 90 days you are:

Co-managing the Founder’s Sales + Marketing operations system
Preparing every client/prospect meeting with context + goals
Producing post-call follow-up drafts, next steps, and email scripts the Founder can quickly approve
Managing pipeline hygiene across tools (Monday.com currently)
Turning Founder notes, call recordings, or transcripts into:
→ next steps
→ insights
→ tasks
→ sales assets
Supporting marketing workflows (content drafts, asset organisation, scheduling)
Feeding MD/CoS with structured GTM data and simple weekly summaries
Acting as a communication amplifier and operational anchor for everything the Founder touches

Duties and Responsibilities

What You’ll Bring

Skills & Mindset

Strong writer/communicator + fast processor
Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
Obsessed with clarity and follow-through (you hate letting things drop)
Comfortable with tools like CRMs (e.g. Monday.com), Notion, and Google Suite
Able to learn quickly about GTM, sales, and marketing systems
Confident taking messy inputs and turning them into neat outputs

Experience

0–3 years of experience in a fast-paced environment (agency, startup, operations, sales support, or similar)
Some exposure to marketing, sales, or operations (internships/placements count)
Experience with note-taking, summarising, or supporting senior stakeholders is a plus

Traits

“See the whole board” curiosity — you like understanding how everything connects
High discretion — comfortable handling sensitive information
Interest in marketing, sales, operations, and tech startups
Comfortab

About the Company

We help great companies hire great interns! At theInterna we connect Europe's most ambitious and entrepreneurial students with the startups and companies where they can make a real impact. From fast-growing tech ventures to purpose-driven brands, we help companies of all sizes across Europe find talented interns for roles in business, marketing, product, operations, design, software, and more. Whether you're a student looking for a placement, Erasmus+ internship, or remote experience to boost your career or a company looking... Know more