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 (Chief Learning Officer) and Alice (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 (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 (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, Jonas & Lena
• Get one-to-one coaching from Lena, 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 to get to know Akdo.
• We'll do a (remote) training creation challenge
• Deep Dive with Lena and Max to get a feeling for the team and the tasks ahead of you
• Offer - the start of your journey with Akdo

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