👋 We are looking for a product operations intern to work with our co-founder Clément. The ideal fit is an engineering student with a passion for impact who wants to have a strong contribution to scaling a climate-tech start-up!
Start Date: January 2024 (for 4 to 6 months)
Location: Paris or Lyon or Berlin
🏔️ About us
Riverse is a climate-tech company, founded in 2021 by Clément, Grégoire and Ludovic, three long-time friends with complementary expertise and a common and strong will to accelerate the environmental transition. We are now a team of 11 passionate people from international background.
Our aim is to drive as much financing as possible to low carbon solutions in Europe to accelerate the transition to a net zero society. We do so by giving industrial Greentech companies in Europe access to the voluntary carbon market and issue highly-verifiable industrial carbon credits.
We are backed by some of the best climate-tech investors in Europe and have been part of the Techstars Berlin acceleration programme.
🙌 General Preferred Background
You are a graduate student or equivalent with an engineering background, in a gap year or at the end of your studies
You are eager to learn, and like to think about solutions to the problems you face
You have experience in product/project management, from problem to implementation
Some familiarity with lifecycle assessment, carbon footprint and sustainability principles is a plus
Some experience on no-code / low-code development platforms (Make, Airtable, StackerHQ, Zapier) is a plus
You are familiar with basics of software engineering and can read python code
You have a good command of written and spoken English. While speaking French and / or German is strongly appreciated, it is not necessary.
Please do not worry if you don’t match all these: we prefer people to bullet points, and are interested in reviewing your application if you think it is worth it!
📝 Job description
You will work hand in hand with our co-founder & CPO Clément to help us further scaling Riverse.
As an early-stage start-up, the day-to-day life changes at high speed and so do the tasks to be performed, but we have prepared below a list of examples of topics on which you could be asked to work on
Support the end-to-end project certification process (identify eligible low-carbon projects, manage customers relationship, support our climate team on developing lifecycle assessment models etc.)
Implement automation in existing processes (mostly using no-code)
Conduct customer interviews and market research to identify areas of development for our product
Contribute to defining the product roadmap and steering technical and climate teams’ efforts
Finally, regardless of your role, we are always open to any ideas that you would like to suggest for learning and improving the company.
🏠 Benefits
Paid position (1300€ to 2000€ / month depending on the work contract and your experience)
Full remote possible, with offices in the center of Paris or Lyon (Fra), and in Berlin (Ger)
Bi-annual team retreat
🧭 Recruitment process
💻 First 30 min video-conversation with Ludovic, to get to know you and discuss what you are looking for
📐 Business case preparation at home (≈60 min), and debriefing during a call with Clément (45 min)
📆 A 30 min cultural fit interview with Grégoire
🌠 Diversity, inclusion & equity
We are working to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment, where everyone has a space to thrive. We firmly believe that fostering inclusion is an ongoing journey that requires unwavering commitment. Our goal is to establish an authentic environment that is welcoming to all individuals, irrespective of their nationality, physical ability, family structure, age, socio-economic status, civil status, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic origin, religion, belief, or any other characteristic that makes their life experience unique.
We are at the beginning of building our company and our culture, and are extremely interested to talk about these topics if you are interested too!
📝 What’s next?
Does this role appeal to you? You think you have the right profile? Contact us at: jobs@riverse.io
