Founder's Associate (internship)

As CEO Right Hand, you will be pivotal in structuring our team and propelling our ambitious vision forward.

For 6 months, you sit next to the CEO and do his job with him — board, investors, M&A, hiring, strategy, the good days and the hard ones. You see everything a founder sees. You make real calls. You own real outcomes.

At the end, you leave: to start your own company, to join another founding team, or to take what you've learned wherever you want. Sixte backs the best ones with his network.

If you want to become a banker, a consultant, or an investor — this isn't for you. There are better internships for that.

If you already know, in your gut, that you're going to be a founder — and you want to compress years of learning into six months before you start — keep reading.

You're Animaj CEO's Right Hand On Everything That Matters

* Capital & board. Support CEO's investor relations, board prep, the dataroom, and the next fundraising round. You meet Animaj's investors and see how capital actually gets raised.

* M&A. Animaj acquires IPs and companies. You run processes alongside the CEO — sourcing, valuation, due diligence, negotiation, closing. Most interns never touch a real deal. You'll touch several.

* Strategy & operations. Strategic memos, monthly reporting, senior-hire recruitment loops, exec meeting prep, the occasional fire. You see how a €175M-raised company actually runs.

* Leverage. A real part of the job is making CEO 10x more effective — automating his recurring work, building systems so the CEO office scales. You'll use AI tools heavily (Claude, Cursor, n8n — you will have to learn what you don't know). You'll learn to run a company the way the next generation of CEOs will.

* Already wired to be a founder. You've probably started something: a company, a side project that made money, a student org you ran like a startup. You don't ask for permission.

* Commercially sharp. You can read a P&L, build a model, follow an M&A process. Prior VC, M&A, consulting, or (best) startup experience is a plus — but what matters is that you think like an operator.

* AI-curious and builder-minded. You don't need to code. You need to be genuinely excited about using AI to 10x your output, and willing to learn fast. The candidates we'll hire have already played with Claude, Cursor, or similar tools on their own.

* Clear thinker, clear writer. In English and ideally French. Short, sharp, no corporate filler.

* Hungry for the next step. You see this 6-month seat for what it is: the best possible runway before launching something of your own

* First Interview with our current Founder Associate (30’)

* Case Study

* Final Interview with our CEO (45’)

Starting date between May to July for 6 monthsBenefits

* Remote Policy - Dedicated to your work-life balance, we offer 2 days remote and 3 days per week at the office. Why ? Because we think that magic occurs when people work together, but we also believe that there are times when you need to be able to work without uninterruption.

* Work environment - A stimulating workplace that fosters creativity, autonomy and leadership.

* Competitive compensation

* Other perks: Swile card, Pass Navigo 50% reimbursement.