<p><strong>The Position</strong></p> <p>Hive is scaling to become Europe’s default operating system for commerce, and our Growth engine is at the heart of that ambition. We’re looking for an exceptional Founder Associate / Strategy Associate to our Chief Growth Officer to sit at the nerve center of that engine for 6 months, own problems that would normally land on a McKinsey Engagement Manager’s desk, and actually ship the answers.</p> <p>This is a zero-to-one internship. You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with our CGO on the highest-leverage questions Hive is facing: market entries, pricing architecture, GTM motion redesigns, and the board-level narratives behind them. You won’t fetch coffee. You’ll build the models, drive the analyses, and present the recommendations that shape where Hive goes next.</p> <p>If you’re the person who excelled at a top program, cracked the McKinsey case-prep circuit, and now wants 4-6 months of real operator exposure before you take the BCG/McKinsey/Bain offer, or before you start the venture you’ve already been sketching out, this role was built for you.</p> <p><strong>Your Mission</strong></p> <p>You’ll be the CGO’s force multiplier. Every week, you’ll turn an ambiguous, high-stakes strategic question into a crisp, defensible answer, and then help make it happen.</p> <p><strong>Your Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Own CGO-level strategic projects end-to-end: </strong>from framing the problem, to structuring the analysis, to landing the recommendation with the leadership team</li> <li><strong>Build the models: </strong>unit economics, pricing simulations, cohort analyses, market sizings, and business cases for new market entries and product bets</li> <li><strong>Run deep-dive analyses across our commercial funnel: </strong>pipeline health, segment performance, sales productivity, churn drivers, and turn findings into concrete interventions</li> <li><strong>Prepare board, investor, and all-hands materials </strong>with the CGO, the kind of decks that get pressure-tested in front of Tiger Global, Earlybird, and Picus Capital</li> <li><strong>Design and run strategic experiments </strong>with Sales, Account Management, Marketing, and Partnerships, and measure what actually moved the needle</li> <li><strong>Synthesize competitive and market intelligence into decisions: </strong>how Hive positions against Shopify, Amazon, 3PLs, and category entrants across Europe</li> <li><strong>Act as chief of staff to the CGO: </strong>driving the weekly operating rhythm, prioritizing the inbox and calendar, and ensuring nothing important drops</li> </ul> <p><strong>Your Profile</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>A distinctive academic track record: </strong>Dean’s List, scholarships, or thesis awards are strong signals</li> <li><strong>Consulting-track pedigree: </strong>you’ve prepped seriously for McKinsey, BCG, or Bain interviews. You think in MECE, you’re analytically ruthless in Excel, and you can structure a slide in your sleep</li> <li><strong>Prior exposure at the highest bar: </strong>internships at MBB, top VC-backed scaleups (Trade Republic, N26, Revolut, Flix, Sennder), PE, or IB. Founder or founding-team experience is a huge plus</li> <li><strong>Analytically ruthless, commercially sharp: </strong>you can go from a messy Metabase export to a board-ready insight in an afternoon.<strong> </strong>SQL or Python is a strong plus</li> <li><strong>Operator instincts, not just analyst instincts: </strong>you don’t stop at the recommendation; you drive execution and carry things across the finish line</li> <li><strong>Exceptional written and verbal English (C1+); German is a strong plus </strong>given our large DACH footprint</li> <li><strong>High agency, low ego: </strong>you move fast, you ask the blunt question in the room, and you’d rather be useful than look good politically</li> <li><strong>Available for 4-6 months starting ASAP: </strong>Pflichtpraktikum, gap semester, or pre-MBA window all work</li> </ul> <p><strong>Our Offering</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Proximity to the decision table: </strong>you’ll sit in every meeting that matters, strategy, board prep, exec offsites, investor updates. Most people don’t get this exposure until their late 20s</li> <li><strong>A resume line you can’t buy: </strong>Founder / Strategy Associate to the CGO of one of DACH’s top-scaling scaleups</li> <li><strong>A guaranteed conversion path: </strong>top performers get a full-time offer into Strategy, BizOps, Chief of Staff, or a GTM leadership track, with a clear 2-year path to running a function</li> <li><strong>Work with exceptional people: </strong>our team includes alumni from McKinsey, Amazon, Shopify, Google, TikTok, and Trade Republic</li> <li><strong>Real autonomy from day one:</strong> your impact drives your progression, not your past titles</li> <li><strong>Tools to thrive: </strong>MacBook, Claude Pro & Lovable Business Plan, modern office at Alexanderplatz, 30 vacation days prorated, flexible hours, and regular team events including company-wide offsites</li> <li><strong>A front-row seat</strong> to the €200B operations opportunity in European commerce</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong&