Founder's Associate Intern (f/m/x)

Become part of Tanso and leverage your problem-solving skills for climate impact.

Join our team to take an active role in helping companies to decarbonize effectively and work in a fast-growing environment. Your main objective is to scale Tanso while running smoothly at the same time.

As our Founder's Associate Intern, you help us scale Tanso and establish a strong foundation, together with our Chief of Staff (Cedric) and CEO (Till). Your focus will be on building up key partnerships and business development initiatives while managing your own projects.

How you succeed

Drive Strategic Growth with the Leadership Team
Work closely with our CEO and Chief of Staff on strategic initiatives shaping Tanso’s growth. Contribute to key management priorities ensuring Tanso scales efficiently and sustainably.

Build Strategic Partnerships for Expansion
Identify and nurture high-leverage partnerships that drive growth and expand our market presence. Support the management team in evaluating and executing business opportunities that align with Tanso’s long-term strategy.

Strengthen Our Operating Foundations
Collaborate with the management team to refine structures, processes, and tools that enable scalable operations. Lead implementation of key systems to keep Tanso running smoothly as we grow.

Own Strategic Projects and Deliver Impact
Take ownership of strategic and operational projects from ideation to execution. Drive cross-functional initiatives and translate leadership vision into measurable outcomes.

Shape the Future of Tanso
As part of the management circle, challenge the status quo, bring fresh ideas, and help make Tanso stronger, smarter, and more impactful — every day.

Why Tanso?

• Your work helps producing companies integrate sustainability in their decision making. You will directly influence how companies understand, act upon and report on sustainability.
• You are joining the company in a phase of accelerated growth. With proven product-market fit, a growing base of reference customers, and strong market momentum, we’re scaling fast in a space that truly matters.
• Our team thrives on embracing uncertainty. We work in cross-functional teams to tackle ambitious challenges, actively seek feedback, and are strong believers in interdisciplinary.
• We’re a diverse group of people, and that diversity is what makes our experience extraordinary. With team members from various backgrounds, disciplines, and cultures, we bring unique perspectives to everything we do and are always eager to learn from each other.
• We offer an environment that puts your needs first. You’ll get access to sponsored EGYM Wellpass to find inner peace at yoga or kill it at HIIT workouts with the team.
• Our team is fun - we are convinced that work needs to be fun too. We are proud to have an outstanding team NPS and regularly organize team events to keep up the spirit.

Whom you will be working with

• Cedric, our Chief of Staff, who is making Tanso scalable in terms of numbers and metrics while working on business development initiatives
• Till (CEO), one of our Founders, who is leading and planning our business strategy

Recruitment Process

1. Culture & Personal Fit with Katharina - get to know Tanso and ask all your questions
2. Role Introduction with Cedric - understand your role and see whom you will be working with
3. Deep Dive with Cedric and Till - get a feeling for the tasks ahead of you
4. Offer - the start of your journey with Tanso

Hard Requirements

• You already live or are willing to relocate to Munich.
• You must have a pre-existing working permit for the EU.
• You must speak English at level C1 or higher.
• You must speak German at level C2.

You're wondering why there isn't a longer list of hard requirements in the job description? We believe it's more important that you are excited about the role and want to grow with it, instead of fulfilling some specific high-level requirements. We think there can be numerous different paths that could qualify you for this role, and we want to hear YOUR story.