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Stealth Startup posted this role. Below, we break down what it means for a working student in Berlin: your weekly hours, take-home pay and visa limits. You can also open ChatGPT or Claude with a ready-made prompt to tailor your CV, check your fit, draft a cover letter or prep for the interview.
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Description provided by Stealth Startup
You'll work directly with our Head of People in a small, high-trust People & Talent function in our T-1 VC backed Mobility Start-up. Currently 75+ people across 3 sites and 14+ stores, hiring toward ~95 by year-end and heading into our next stage.
This is a build role, not a maintenance one: You'll own projects end-to-end, work with real data, and operate at the intersection of operations, strategy and execution.
Tasks
- Kill manual work. Find the processes that shouldn't exist and remove them — Notion hygiene, HRIS setup, workflow automation. You treat "we've always done it manually" as a bug.
- Recruiting, with full ownership of your own roles. A reliable bridge between candidates and hiring managers. You run a defined set of positions yourself; the senior and hardest-to-fill searches stay with the Head of People, so you're set up to win, not to drown.
- Onboarding & offboarding, end to end. From signed contract to a productive first week, and to clean, correct exits. Built to scale, not just to work once.
- Compliance and operations, airtight. Employment contracts, certificates, references, compliance documentation across all sites — accurate and on time, every time.
- Employee benefits, evidence-based. Research, benchmark, and implement benefits from data, not gut feel.
- Employer brand & job-ad content. Help craft how our roles and culture show up to candidates — sharp job ads, careers content, a hiring experience people talk about. (If you also bring paid-channel skills, great, but it's not what this role is judged on.)
- Your own judgment. If you spot something missing or broken, you say so — and then you fix it.
Requirements
- Some experience in start-up ecosystem and/or people systems is a definitive plus.
- Structured and precise: nothing falls through the cracks, nothing gets left half-finished
- Fluent German (C2) is a hard requirement. Professional-level English
- You think in systems: if you do something twice, by the third time you're already building the process
- Works independently and closes the loop without being chased
- Discreet – you'll handle sensitive information and take that seriously
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to prioritise when everything feels urgent
Benefits
Our Offer: Small HQ team, high intensity, and big outcomes. You’ll move fast and work directly with leadership who trust you to deliver.
- Huge End-to-End Ownership: Make a real impact from day one across functions. Shape a fast-scaling platform at its inception.
- Top‑Notch Product: Our product delivers - with NPS scores >90 (B2B and B2C) and Google ratings consistently between 4.8 and 5.0 stars.
- Fair compensation (based on duration of your internship between 2.300-2.600 EUR), Work Laptop, Flat-rate SIM, Wellpass Gym Membership.
- Accelerated Career Growth: Gain first‑hand exposure in a scaling a high-growth, ops-heavy start-up - a solid launchpad for future leadership or founding roles. Experience a small core team with flat hierarchies and direct decision paths.
- Mentorship from experienced scale-up professionals: Work directly and get mentorship from an experienced Entreprenur in Residence who acted as right hand to Founders in multiple early stages and scale-ups including Getir.
- Prime Location: Work from our central Berlin Mitte office (Rosenthaler Platz).
Working student essentials
What this HR internship in Berlin means for you: the pay rules, the social contributions, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Internships have no 20-hour cap, but a voluntary internship longer than three months generally has to pay at least the German minimum wage. Mandatory internships in your study programme are exempt.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Mandatory internships are largely exempt from social contributions. Voluntary internships are treated like regular employment once they run long enough, so contributions usually apply.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
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