Working Student B2G: Public Sector & Research Funding (f/m/d)

01 · Why this role exists

This is not your typical student job.

B2G sounds boring, until you realise it's money from the state and you help win it. You'll work directly with our B2G Manager and the founders on funding that flows straight into RIZM's cash flow, and you'll see from the inside how the public sector decides and buys. Something most students never get to see.

RIZM builds RIZMO, an AI agent that makes energy decisions for industrial companies. Our next lever is the public sector: municipalities, utilities and economic development agencies have to implement heat plans, keep business parks competitive and relieve the grid. We're building B2G as a new business line at RIZM, and we're looking for a working student to help build it from day one.

02 · What you'll do

• Public funding as a growth channel: Help build the pipeline for Forschungszulage (Germany's R&D tax allowance), EU grants, ERDF (EFRE) and other programmes: scout new calls, prepare applications and keep track of our running programmes.

• Connect research: Support our research collaboration with Stanford and help turn it into funded projects.

• Build the machine, AI-first: Set up trackers, automations and AI workflows so our funding pipeline runs with as little manual work as possible. Your ideas count here.

• Support ReNET-EV: Help with our part of the ERDF project ReNET-EV (grid-friendly energy supply for business parks in the Münster/NRW region): documentation, reporting and the rollout to more municipalities.

• Get to know municipalities: Research how cities, municipal utilities and economic development agencies decide and buy, as groundwork for our first public-sector customers.

• Build the data foundation: Collect public and municipal data that makes our models more precise at regional level.

03 · What you bring

• Studies: You're enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's programme, e.g. public administration, political science, economics, business, energy, engineering or something similar.

• Curiosity: The energy transition, municipal heat planning or how public funding works interest you. No prior experience needed.

• Writing: You write clearly and in a structured way.

• AI-native: You're curious about AI and enjoy building your own tools and workflows.

• Ownership: You work independently and like to take responsibility.

• Languages: Fluent German and good English.

04 · Why you should apply now

B2G is a new business line at RIZM. Join now and help shape it from the start.

• Small team: You'll work actively and day to day with our full-time B2G Manager, not on the sidelines.

• Real responsibility: In a business line we're building from scratch.

• Founders: You work directly with them.

• Insight: Into public funding, research projects and municipal decision-making.

• Real customers: Our product already runs at industrial customers like BMW and BSH.

• Flexible hours: They fit around your studies.

05 · One click, then what?

For now it's just one small step: press Apply. Here is a sneak peek at what comes next.

Your application: Send us your CV and, instead of a classic cover letter, a few honest sentences on these two questions.

1. A mayor gives you 2 minutes. Which energy problem in their city would you tell them RIZM can help with?

2. Research funding sounds dusty to most students, but we think it's not :) How would you convince your friends it's actually cool, in the language you'd really use with them?

After that:

• Intro call: 15 minutes on video to get to know each other.

• Meet the team: At our office, with the team and one of our founders. Then we decide together.