About Gemms

Gemms is a rising seed-stage fintech company, currently in stealth mode. Stealth mode means that we do not disclose the details about our product until launch. Once you are interviewing with us, you will know more about the product and the market.

About your new role

This internship can eventually translate into a full-time junior product role in the company. The role is full-time and remote given the Covid-19.

Key responsibilities

• Assist CPO in defining the product strategy and go-to-market strategy
• Help ideate and execute different product initiatives
• Prepare specs and research for the new features
• Conduct market research and competitive research
• Lead customer/prospect interviews and UX tests
• You will learn how to build up the product process from scratch with the goal of enabling continuous delivery of value and innovation

What you’ll learn

• You will get a great knowledge of the fintech & SaaS ecosystem
• You will learn from an experienced CPO how to work with product strategy, how to conduct research and organize priorities in a highly competitive market
• You will learn how to build up the product process from scratch with the goal of enabling continuous delivery of value and innovation
• You will collaborate with a team of engineers and designers to develop new features and releases
• You will learn how to set up and implement a strong experimentation process, designed to achieve fast PMF
• Together with the CPO and CEO, you will work on competitive benchmarking and translating the findings into actionable product specs

What do we expect from you?

Mentality

• Customer-centric – you always keep the value for customer value in mind whatever you do
• Data-driven – data is at the core of decisions you make, you know how to come up with the right hypothesis and test it
• Passionate – you love what you do and you always go the extra mile
• Ambition & growth mindset – you want to be a top-notch product person, you learn things on the fly, you say “give me a day” instead of “never done that/no clue”
• Low ego – you use every opportunity to get feedback and grow instead of having negative emotions, you see every problem as an opportunity, you use radical candor method in your work

Experience

• Ideally, you’ve done a product internship before
• You are a rockstar in market and customer research
• Experience with user research, UX, product management, agile is a huge plus
• You studied Business, Computer Science, Information Science, Mathematics, Psychology or other related fields
• You have an organized, independent & efficient working style
• You have very good interpersonal and communication skills
• You are organized, can document specs and information well, keep the backlog, stories, and other documents in good order and up to date
• You are very data-driven: you are proficient in using analytics tools and drawing conclusions from data. Knowledge of SQL is a plus
• Ideally, you have experience preparing business cases – articulating a hypothesis, backing it up with data, building a case to sell internally / to investors
• You are fluent in English, German is a huge plus

Tools / technical skills

• Jira, Confluence
• Analytics tools: Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Amplitude, and more
• Databases & BI tools
• Excel, PowerPoint (or Google Slides)
• You can easily understand APIs (REST, etc.) and can transform customer requirements into concrete, clear and concise technical requirements taking into consideration best-practice product management skills

What you can expect from this internship?

• Work with and learn from our experienced CPO (ex YC, ex BCG-DV) on a daily basis
• Quickly learn to the most crucial product management skills like setting up product processes, prioritization, user research, market research, competitor analysis
• Opportunity to disrupt one of the biggest industries in Europe and one of the hottest startup industries
• A great challenge that will bring you to the new level as a professional
• High degree of autonomy, absolutely flat hierarchy
• Working with an international top-notch team of seniors
• Personalized coaching and mentorship
• A strong network of mentors and experts you can use
• Personal learning budget (after investment)

How to apply

Make sure to attach your resume and fill out a short cover letter. We don’t need any official format for the cover letter – keep it simple and make sure to cover these 3 points:

• Your previous experience relevant to this role
• What you would like to learn in the internship
• When are you available to start, are you able to work full-time