About the Job

We are looking for an ambitious Business Operations Intern to join our dynamic and young team. You will have the exciting opportunity of gaining valuable experience in a fast paced start-up environment and contribute to reducing 4.4% of global CO₂ emissions. We are recruiting for the position on a rolling basis.

Job Role Summary

You will work on creating, implementing, and supporting processes to improve our organization, externally (hiring, partnerships, regulators, freelancers) and internally (finance, administration, market research, HR). We believe a deep understanding of our customers and products is essential for making good business decisions, which is why you’ll be in regular contact with our customers and partners. This role will allow you to grow while making a tangible impact on the global push for CO₂ neutrality.

Key Responsibilities

As a Business Operations Intern at Podero, you will:

• Assist in talent acquisition by screening and reaching out to potential candidates.
• Develop and refine marketing, sales, and investor materials; assist with demos and join relevant calls.
• Conduct market, customer, and product research to support business decisions.
• Support billing, accounting, and other financial operations.
• Provide hands-on support for various operational tasks and strategic initiatives.

Qualifications & Preferred Skills

This role is a perfect fit for you if you:

• Are currently pursuing or have recently completed a degree in Business, Economics, or a related field.
• Have experience in early-stage startups, consulting, or sales.
• Have a strong interest in how to build and run early-stage startups.
• Are a resourceful problem-solver who thrives on tackling challenges head-on.
• Are proactive, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Have excellent communication skills and can engage confidently with different stakeholders.
• Are fluent in English (additional languages such as German, French, Italian, or Spanish are a plus).

Benefits

• Mission-Driven Work: Help reduce 4.4% of global CO₂ emissions by contributing to the transition towards a more sustainable energy grid and strengthening Europe’s energy independence.
• Young and dynamic environment: Flat hierarchies and a fun workplace—we’re a young team that gets along great!
• Learning / Professional Growth: Join a fast-paced, early-stage startup with significant learning and career advancement opportunities. Access to a strong network, including investors and key stakeholders in the energy and tech industries
• Startup experience: Experience firsthand how top companies create value from 0 to 1 while outpacing their competition and creating real-world value.
• Success-based compensation: Personal and company-based commission with the opportunity to influence your salary.
• Work Flexibility: Remote or hybrid work options with the ability to work in our Vienna office. We’d love to have you on site in Vienna for the first 8-12 weeks of your employment.
• 25 Days of Annual Leave
• Off-sites and travel budget: Regular Team Events and exciting off-site experiences all across Europe. Travel budgets for customer visits, conferences, and industry events.
• Additional Perks: MacBook, plus any equipment (AirPods, etc.) you might need to get your work done as effectively as possible. Snacks, coffee, and fruit at the office.

About Us

Energy suppliers face many challenges in their B2C business, including low margins, low differentiation of their electricity offers, emerging market players, unprofitable electricity trading, and limited IT resources.

Podero is a software platform for utilities that reduces the energy cost of flexible consumer devices like heat pumps, EVs and chargers, inverters, and home batteries by over 25%. Utilities roll out Podero using our white-label web app or integrating our API into their apps. Podero steers devices based on consumers’ PV production, fluctuating spot electricity prices, and the grid-stabilizing balancing energy markets. Podero enables utilities to trade the aggregate device power on the energy markets, ensuring a win-win situation for both utilities and consumers.

Customers of Podero include E.ON, TotalEnergies, oekostrom, KELAG, and more.

Mission

Our vision is to accelerate towards a world of abundant clean energy 🌍 How? By creating the most profitable trading software for electric devices (Distributed Energy Resources).

We are solving one of the most fundamental problems of the electricity grid caused by the rapid consumer adoption of Distributed Energy Resources like heat pumps, EVs, and batteries, and the simultaneous exponential growth of renewable power generation. Renewables like solar and wind cause spikes in production, while Distributed Energy Resources cause spikes in consumption — unfortunately, mostly at opposite times.

We balance supply and demand in electricity markets by utilizing existing consumer devices as energy storage. Each time we shift the electricity use of consumer devices to match supply and demand, our software makes profitable trades, benefiting consumers and utilities. This balances the grid, which means that more consumers can use CO2-friendly Distributed Energy Resources and more renewables can be brought online.

In short, we are giving Podero back to the people!⚡️

Our Culture

Podero is a group of relentless operators and driven domain experts who genuinely care about what they do. We all rally around the mission of decarbonizing electricity and feel proud about building an inspiring product. We value pragmatism, sharp focus, quick iterations, failing fast, and connecting our daily tasks to our mission. We are driven by customer obsession, working closely with customers to uncover what is true in our market, gathering frequent feedback, communicating openly, and building solutions that truly meet their needs. We value bias for action over perfectionism and overplanning and look for passionate individuals who complete their work with urgency and curiosity. We value learning on the job, learning from colleagues, customers, mentors, and competitors. We ensure everyone can collaborate transparently with trust, radical candor, and conscientiousness.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.