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Job description
Vanilla Steel published this listing. We've added our own working-student context below — what this role means for your weekly hours, take-home pay and student visa as a student in Berlin, Germany.
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Description provided by Vanilla Steel
We are a Berlin-based startup transforming how industrial materials are bought and sold across Europe. One of the oldest industries in the world still runs on Excel, PDF and email. We are replacing that with AI that runs the buying and selling workflow end to end, increasing liquidity, speeding up transactions and reducing waste for hundreds of steel and metal distributors.
We have strong early traction, real enterprise customers and committed investors. We are a lean, technical team scaling our enterprise pilots and building the AI infrastructure underneath them.
Your job is to open doors and win conversations. You partner closely with Co-founder Simon, who owns sales. You will spend real time on the phone with German steel traders and distributors, and you will build the systems and tools that make every call sharper. This is a hands-on role with four pillars, and the first one is where you will make your mark.
- Reach out and close
- Build the pipeline
- Extend our AI outbound engine
- Help build the brand
Your profile
You are genuinely comfortable picking up the phone, and you like finding smarter ways to work. The one non-negotiable: you can sell in German. Everything else you can grow into here.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in German (C1 or C2 must have, native not required) and solid English. You can run an outbound call with a German industrial customer end to end, and you are not thrown by a cold conversation.
- Enrolled student or recent graduate. We care about how you think and what you have built, not your years of experience.
- Comfortable with software, and keen to use AI tools like Cursor or Claude to work smarter. If you can build or automate things yourself, even better, though you do not need to be an engineer.
- Resourceful and thick-skinned. You take initiative instead of waiting to be told, and a "no" does not slow you down.
- Organized, and genuinely bothered by messy data.
- Nice to have: your own outreach or sales experience; a side project you have shipped; a portfolio, brand, or content you have built (a site, a social account, a newsletter); Python, React, or GTM tools like Clay, Apollo or HubSpot.
- €2,000 to €2,500 per month, depending on experience.
- Real ownership from day one: you run your own outbound, and you watch the meetings you book turn into real deals.
- Work directly with the founders and learn how a startup wins its first customers from zero, in a real industry.
- Senior co-founders who are operators, not pitch-deck founders. Decisions happen fast.
- Subsidised Urban Sports Club membership and Deutschlandticket.
- Hybrid work format, office in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.
- Regular team events, company breakfasts and Friday drinks.
We are a Berlin-based startup that has successfully established a leading digital-first trading company for industrial metals across Europe.
The multi-billion-euro metal trading industry is operated on Excel, PDF and Email. Our mission is to integrate smart technology and data to drive every decision, transaction, and workflow in the steel industry. Our technologies & services increase liquidity, accelerate transactions, reduce scrapping rates and enhance trading convenience for hundreds of steel and metal distributors across Europe.
Working student essentials
What this Sales internship in Berlin means for you — pay rules, 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.
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