🤝Jr Founders Associate
- 📍 Location: Paris, France
- 📅 Start Date: between January - June 2027
- ⏳ Duration: 6 months (full-time)
- 🎓 Level: Master 2 / Business or Engineering School (Bac+5) – Business, Marketing, or engineering-related fields
🎯 Mission of the Internship
As a Junior Founder Associate you will work closely with the founder to identify, contact and close the first customers for our fermentation-derived ingredients. You will be the first full-time contributor of our sales team.
📋 Your Main Tasks
- 📍Mapping customer segments and geographies to ensure proper targeting
- 📞 Identify and contact the most relevant people to schedule discovery meetings with industrial customers, in the EU and the US
- 📢 Improve the marketing strategy so that our message reach everyone
- ✍️ Refine the marketing & sales strategy, value proposition and key messages for an efficient sales pipeline
- 🔬 Complete a sales package based on the material provided by the product and fermentation team
- 🤝 Close the first deals
📚 What You'll Learn
- Sales and marketing techniques in an international B2B context
- Use of AI and software tools such as Pipedrive and Python to ****improve speed and efficacy
- Exposure to an industrial R&D process focused on sustainability and scalability
✅ Your Profile
- Enrolled in a Master 2 or final-year engineering or business school program
- Ability to structure a sales pitch and deliver it convincingly
- Understanding of basic sales mechanisms
- Motivated, curious, and excited to work in a fast-paced research environment
- Fluent in English
- Bonus: Experience in marketing (online/offline)
- Bonus: Familiarity with fermentation or bioproduction
🌟 Why Choose baCta?
- Be part of a mission-driven startup developing next-gen sustainable ingredients
- Work in a fast-paced Paris-based biotech startup with a collaborative culture
- Contribute directly to the first sales of a startup, with quantifiable impact
- Learn from a experienced founding team, with sales and fundraising experience
- Participate in shaping early-stage sales and marketing workflows in an industrial setting
⭐ Benefits
- Health insurance (Alan) 100% covered
- Lunch voucher of 12€/day (7€/day paid by the company), 2 team lunches per month
- 75% of Navigo card reimbursed or 55€/months if you prefer other types of transportation (bike, car-sharing…)