Founder Operations Analyst (Internship)

Internship(6 months)
Paris
Salary: €1.5K a month
Starting date: January 05, 2025
Occasional remote
Experience: < 6 months
Education: Master's Degree

Entrepreneur First
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The position

Job description

Your main missions will be set around:

  • Candidate’s journey: Our first customers are our candidates and founders, and we want to make sure they have a memorable experience at EF. You will be responsible for ensuring the process runs smoothly for candidates, from the moment they apply until they sign their offer to join our next cohort.

  • Founder’s journey: Once the programme starts, you will be responsible for coordinating the schedule and the delivery of our programme to optimize the effectiveness of the team building, ideation and investment phases.

  • Events operations: We regularly run events with EF speakers and external stakeholders, and you will be responsible for ensuring the event runs smoothly. You will get the opportunity to sit in on these events and learn from inspiring entrepreneurs (recently, we have organized a Hackathon with Meta, and a 2-day bootcamp on climate tech).

  • Data intelligence and analysis: EF is in a unique position to collect and aggregate valuable data to improve our assessment of founder and team quality. You will be contributing to improving our data collection processes, monitoring our data systems and adapting our tooling. You will also be in charge of synthesising information, deriving actionable insights and developing hypotheses and recommendations to adjust our processes.

You will also get to:

  • Surround yourself with the world’s smartest and most ambitious individuals and have the opportunity to help develop an institution that can transform the lives of the most impactful people

  • Supercharge your learning - you will have a very steep learning curve and work alongside a talented, ambitious, and committed team

  • Embed yourself within the EF network - we work with the best founders and investors in France

  • Shadow the individual meetings with founders, including mock investor questions sessions

  • Be based at Station F, at the heart of the French tech ecosystem


Preferred experience

You should:

  • Have a strong academic record

  • Have a deep interest for technology, startups and venture capital

  • Have already interned at a top tier company or startup

  • Be French native and be fluent in English (C1/C2 Level)

  • Have outstanding organizational skills

You should also:

  • Excel with process and people, be strategic but enjoy getting your hands dirty and want a fast paced role

  • Be an expert problem solver who thinks on their feet

  • Have high EQ and enjoy working with people

  • Have a strong growth mindset and actively seek ownership

  • Be a strong communicator

  • Be very comfortable with managing competing priorities


Recruitment process

  • Video call Interview with Operations Associate (30 minutes)

  • Case study followed by a debrief interview in our office at Station F with Head of Operations (45 minutes)

  • Final Fit Interview with General Manager (30 minutes)

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