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Founder’s Associate Intern

Dryft

San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted todayStill listed today

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Location
San Francisco, CA
Role Type
Internship
Schedule
Full-time
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Job overview

Dryft seeks a Founder’s Associate Intern to step into the founder’s shoes, owning high‑priority projects across product, sales, hiring, and operations. The intern will work on‑site with clients, build prototypes, and host hackathons, gaining rapid, hands‑on experience while contributing to market entry, events, and special projects.

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Skills

Software Project ManagementSalesOperationsPrototypingEvent PlanningEntrepreneurshipProblem SolvingAgilityProject CollaborationFast-Paced ExperienceHigh AgencyDriveWork EthicRapid LearningCompetitive NatureGets Things DoneZero Ego

Full job description

DRYFT Dryft builds intelligent systems that automate complex human decisions in manufacturing operations We’re a small, talent-dense team with modest roots and a love for the physical world - cars, machines, planes. Our team includes graduates from Stanford, Berkeley, CDTM, TUM, winners of Stanford TreeHacks, recipients of Fulbright & Haniel scholarships, and builders of everything from robots and race cars to software with millions of downloads. We’re backed by the founders and leaders behind Amazon, Facebook, Stripe, Applied Intuition, & others; General Catalyst & Neo, and board members of global industrial companies. Today, we’re already saving customers millions. But this is only the beginning. ERPs ran the physical world for half a century. Our mission is to accelerate it for the next.

THE ROLE As our Founder's Associate Intern, you'll step into the shoes of a founder. You'll own the highest-priority projects across product, sales, hiring or operations. One day you're on site with a client, the next you're building a new prototype, and in between you're hosting a hackathon for the best builders in the city.

  • Work on what matters most – whatever the founders are in the middle of, you take it off their plate and own it end-to-end

  • Build from zero – launch the things that don't exist yet at Dryft, from a new market entry to prototypes to our next event

  • Fast-track your career – prove yourself across every part of the company, and grow into a full-time role like Deployment Strategist, Growth or Special Projects roles

You'll learn how a company gets built, from the inside, at full speed. And yes, this will be the hardest internship you've ever had.

YOU

  • Fast-paced experience – 2-3 internships in a top-tier role (e.g., consulting, private equity), at a high-growth startup, or you've built something of your own

  • Founder DNA – you have high agency, drive and a serious work ethic; you thrive in ambiguity and don't wait for direction, or for a process that doesn't exist yet

  • Learning at full speed – you're useful in week one and indispensable by week four

  • Competitive by nature – you've won at something hard, and losing still annoys you days later

  • Gets shit done & zero ego – you move fast, figure things out, and you'd rather ship it than get the credit

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