Working Student - Retail Events & Operations

Probably the least boring job you’ll ever have.

At air up, we don’t just make bottles. We unbore water with flavor by scent. It makes no sense until you try it, and once you do, there’s no going back. Behind it all are teams pushing boundaries every day. Product bends taste and design in new directions. Marketing turns ideas into moments people talk about. Operations makes sure those moments reach hands everywhere.

Working here feels like stepping on stage: professionalism meets passion, curiosity meets courage. You’ll experiment, fail fast, learn faster, and actually see your ideas come to life. It's refreshingly low politics and low ego. Just smart, driven people who lift each other up and make things happen. And whatever happens, it sure won't be boring.

Welcome to air up.

Thirsty for a role at the intersection of trade marketing, field activations, and retail operations? 💧

At air up, we’re changing how the world drinks water through the power of scent. After conquering the digital space, we’re rapidly scaling our offline retail presence across Europe—and we need you to help us own the shelf and the field. As our Working Student for Retail Events & Operations in our Retail team, you'll be at the heart of our expansion. You'll connect early customer interest with what actually happens in stores. This means organizing hands-on sampling events, where our products are tested and promoted in person. It also means supporting other in-person events. On top of that, you'll help boost our in-store marketing. You'll do this by optimizing shelf and display setups and by coordinating with external partner agencies. Your day-to-day work includes organizing in-person store events, tracking campaign data, and managing supplies and shipments. All of this directly fuels our growth in physical retail, as opposed to online. If you're a retail-loving, enthusiastic business student ready to turn what you learn from shoppers into real-world wins, join us in Munich. Let's change how the world drinks, one supermarket aisle at a time!

*** This role is located in Munich, Germany***

In this role, we offer a hybrid working model that balances weekly office days for team collaboration, on-site events and remote days for focused, independent work.

Your responsibilities

• Warehouse & Logistics: Own local warehouse and in-office inventory management for activation gear, ensuring timely reordering, kit packaging, and shipment tracking.
• Agency & Sampling Management: Coordinate external field agencies, oversee POS tasting activations, and maintain real-time status updates across cross-functional teams.
• Data & Insights: Consolidate field metrics, agency performance, and retail KPIs into clean weekly reports to help steer future campaign strategies.
• Retail Excellence: Support day-to-day operations by rolling up your sleeves to connect commercial strategy directly with on-the-ground execution.

This is you

• Business Advocate: You’re currently pursuing a degree in Business Administration, Management, Marketing, Sales, or a related field, and you have at least one year left until graduation.
• Structured & Reliable: You thrive on bringing structure to chaos. Planning, prioritizing, and organizing project workflows comes naturally to you.
• Analytical & Excel-Savvy: Numbers and data tracking make sense to you. You enjoy consolidating field metrics to derive actionable trade marketing insights.
• Retail & Trial Enthusiast: You’re passionate about trade marketing and field activations. Prior experience in event marketing is a plus.
• Independent & Proactive: You’re self-driven, take ownership of campaign logistics, and proactively solve vendor or operational bottlenecks.
• Detail-Oriented: Accuracy matters to you. You ensure campaign reports, inventory logs, and creative briefs are precise and on brand.
• Great Communicator: You communicate clearly and enjoy collaborating with agencies, international teams, and cross-functional partners.
• Language Proficient & Munich-based: You are based in Munich, available for at least 15 hours per week, and fluent in English. German proficiency is preferred.

The benefits listed below are intended for full-time employees. For other employment types, including working students and minijobbers, benefits may differ based on the terms of their contract and applicable regulations.

But what’s in for you?

🏖 30 days of vacation

🏷 discount on our products

💰 employer-funded pension & location related insurances (may vary per country)

🏡 purpose built office in MUC

📈 personal development

🎉 regular team events

🏁 start-up spirit

🌍 workation options (availability may differ by role)

air up® have developed an innovative and world-first drinking system. Through scent alone, the air up® bottle brings flavour to simple tap water and can be enjoyed without any single-use plastic bottles, sugar, or additives. air up is a young, fast-growing company filled with ambitious and creative minds from various backgrounds.

air up® is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining an equal opportunity environment for all persons free of discriminatory behaviour. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.