Training Content & Instructional Design Intern @ AI Startup (Full-time)

You love GenAI? You are a content enthusiast? You want to take responsibility in a startup? Then this is a job for you 🚀 **– Build the future of HSE with Akdo –** * Fast growing Pre-Seed Startup serving the largest enterprises around the world * Building an ai-enabled platform to create tailored HSE/EHS trainings at scale - already training millions of employees * With an experienced team composed of serial founders, leaders at decacorns and early YC-employees **🚀 Your Mission** Our trainings are already world-class — now we need to scale them. Working closely with [Lena](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-schulte-901668179/) (Chief Learning Officer) and [Alice](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicefratoni/) (Learning Experience Designer), you'll use your content and learning-design craft to make our AI better so we can deliver that same quality to many more clients. You'll be the bridge between great pedagogy and AI at scale. **📚 Learning Content & Quality** You're the go-to person for what makes a training actually land. You make sure our AI-generated content is accurate and delightful to consume. * **Check the details:** Review scripts and modules to make sure they're accurate, clear, well-paced, and pedagogically sound * **Turn topics into lessons:** Take dense sustainability, safety, and compliance content and shape it into engaging learning modules * **Spot the AI gaps:** Find exactly where the AI's falls flat — accuracy, pacing, clarity, engagement, instructional choices — so we can fix it * **Apply customer feedback:** Take what clients and users tell us and use it to make our trainings better **🤖 AI Content Production & Product Feedback** You'll use our own platform to build trainings — and help make the platform itself better along the way. * **Test new features:** Try out new AI features before clients see them and share feedback with [Jonas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonaspetry/) (CTO) * **Support multimedia:** Help create AI-powered videos and animations * **Improve our tools:** Help us automate how we build trainings so we're 10x faster than everyone else **📈 Growth & Sales Support** Show potential clients what's possible with Akdo. * **Build demos:** Create impressive, industry-specific demos for sales calls with [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaisermax93/) (CEO) * **Learn from workshops:** Join client sessions to understand the challenges big companies face and how we can solve them **🚀 Your Own Contributions** Have ideas for improving our methodology, new content formats, or smarter ways to use the platform? We welcome your initiatives. **Essential:** * **AI enthusiasm:** You actively use AI tools in your daily work and studies, experiment with new models and workflows, and get genuinely excited about where the technology is heading * **Content craft foundation:** You've spent real time on writing, editing, instructional design, or training material — and you can point us to examples. You care how an idea is communicated, not just whether it's accurate * **Attention to detail:** You find satisfaction in perfecting the final touches and catching what others miss — especially important when crafting learning experiences that need to land * **Organizational skills:** Comfortable juggling multiple projects and priorities simultaneously * **Communication:** Excellent English; German proficiency is a valuable advantage * **Availability:** 4–6 months for a full-time internship **Experience & Background:** Any of the following is a plus, though none are required: * Hands-on experience with AI tools beyond casual use — prompt engineering, building workflows, testing models * Studies in a field where craft with content matters — Communications, Psychology / Business Psychology, Education or Instructional Design, Journalism, Business (HR focus), or similar * Exposure to corporate training, e-learning, or curriculum design (internships, thesis work, student initiatives) * Genuine interest in sustainability, safety, and compliance within business contexts **We care more about curiosity and aptitude than checking every box.** **Mindset:** * Thrives in a small-team startup where priorities shift and you wear multiple hats * Balances precision with speed — knows when to polish and when to ship * Collaborative but self-directed; comfortable asking for help and figuring things out independently * Naturally curious about how things work, whether it's a topic, a training method, or an AI model ❗ At Akdo, we believe in continuous development. Even if you don't meet every requirement, **what matters most is your excitement about the role and your drive to grow** with us 🤗 **Why work at Akdo?** * Help us to build the future of HSE - starting with trainings * Receive mentorship from an experienced founding team: serial founders & operators who have worked for/with the fastest-growing tech companies. Btw: We have LinkedIn! Have a look at [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaisermax93/), [Jonas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonaspetry/) & [Lena](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-schulte-901668179/) * Get one-to-one coaching from [Lena](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-schulte-901668179/), an experienced editor * Competitive pay for a full-remote intern position * Based on your performance, there is the possibility to transition to a full-time position **Remote Working in Germany** * We embrace a fully-remote work culture with regular gatherings * Before applying, please consider whether you love working from home in Germany for a large part of your time **Our Recruiting Process** * You send us your application. * First Introduction with [Lorenzo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzodinapoli/) to get to know Akdo. * We'll do a (remote) training creation challenge * Deep Dive with [Lena](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-schulte-901668179/) and [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaisermax93/) to get a feeling for the team and the tasks ahead of you * Offer - the start of your journey with Akdo ❗Please provide a link to relevant job experience. 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