About this role
Über uns <p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;color:rgb(39,39,42);text-align:left;text-transform:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">We are looking for an ambitious student assistant (3+ months) who want more than a “normal internship”. As a <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:700;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;">Product Management Intern at Pactos</strong>, you will work side-by-side with the founding team (ex-BCG, TUM, WHU) and take full ownership of product initiatives from day one.</p><p style="margin:14px 0px;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;color:rgb(39,39,42);text-align:left;text-transform:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:700;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;">Pactos is the operating system for managing external workforces</strong> — the people companies hire through staffing providers and vendors rather than as employees. That's a >€30bn market in Germany alone, run mostly on Excel and PDFs. We replace it with software.</p><p style="margin:14px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;color:rgb(39,39,42);text-align:left;text-transform:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">Today our platform is used by industrial companies, staffing agencies, and corporates managing compliance across their supplier base. We're seed-stage, ~20 people, growing fast, backed by HTGF and a strong angel base.</p> Was du machen wirst <ul><li>???? Run discovery on at least one product area end-to-end — customer interviews, problem framing, scoping with engineering, shipping the first version.</li><li>???? Own release communication: turn engineering work into clear changelogs, in-product updates, and customer-facing notes that actually get read.</li><li>???? Sit in on customer calls (with our largest enterprise accounts and staffing providers), pull patterns out of what you hear, and feed them back into the roadmap.</li><li>???? Build prototypes and dashboards on product adoption that the teams use in their weekly decisions — not decoration, decisions.</li><li>???? Identify and fix UX friction in the onboarding flow; ship improvements yourself where the scope allows.</li><li>???? Build internal automations that connect our stack and remove recurring manual work for the team.</li></ul><p style="margin:14px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;color:rgb(39,39,42);text-align:left;text-transform:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">You will work directly with the founders and our Senior PM. We won't hand you a curated intern project — you'll be working on the same problems we're working on, scoped to what you can realistically own.</p> Was wir suchen <ul><li>Currently in your studies or, in a gap year; ideally in CS, business informatics, management & technology, engineering, or similar</li><li>Excellent academic performance and/or outstanding extracurricular achievements</li><li>Have built something before — a side project, an automationm a tool, a small product, a dataset, anything where you shipped, not just planned</li><li>Think analytically and can defend a recommendation with data</li><li>Communicate cleanly in writing — short, structured, no fluff</li><li>Are comfortable in environments without a playbook and prefer figuring things out to being told</li><li>Fluent in German and English</li></ul><p style="margin:14px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;color:rgb(39,39,42);text-align:left;text-transform:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">Nice to have, not required: prior internship in a fast-moving B2B software company, basic coding skills, exposure to modern PM tools (Linear, Notion, etc.)</p> Was wir dir bieten <ul><li>Full ownership and responsibility from day one</li><li>Direct collaboration with the founders and a steep learning curve in a dynamic, ambitious team with top-tier colleagues</li><li>The opportunity to shape the future of work as part of a fast-scaling SaaS startup</li><li>Possibility of working-student or full-time conversion for strong performers</li><li>A modern workplace in central Munich and a team culture with ambition and fun (incl. events like Oktoberfest)</li></ul> So bewirbst du dich <span style="color:rgb(39,39,42);font-family:Inter, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-align:left;text-transform:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;">Does this role sound like you? Apply now with your CV and references (transcript of record etc.) to join Pactos.</span>