Futurist
Future Innovator: internship in futures studies & platform development (m/f/d)
Your future project
- Design and development: Helping design and develop the platform, which offers futurists a central hub.
- AI integration: Supporting the integration of AI, especially large language models (LLMs), to define and co-develop useful features that support futurists’ work in networking, exchange, and inspiration.
- Horizon scanning: Researching and systematizing trends, signals, and content relevant to the platform’s users.
- Prototype development: working with developers and subject-matter experts to further develop the platform prototype and prepare it for launch.
- User support: Building features that support and inspire users in their horizon scanning work.
- Feedback and improvement: Taking part in all phases of the project and working closely with our interdisciplinary team to gather continuous feedback and optimize the platform.
What you bring
Are you curious, communicative, open-minded, and healthily optimistic about the future? Perfect! We’re looking for committed doers who:
- Enjoy working independently and in a self-organized way.
- Enjoy preparing knowledge and sharing it systematically.
- Are confident navigating the web and enjoy research.
- Are enthusiastic about integrating AI and new technologies.
- Are currently enrolled in a futures studies program.
- Have solid knowledge of data analysis and statistical methods.
- Have experience with research methods and techniques.
- Can quickly grasp and interpret complex information.
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in German and English.
What we offer you
With us, you’ll do meaningful work that makes you want to shape the future and doesn’t shy away from topics like transformation, resilience, and happiness research. Our friendly, supportive work environment in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg offers you the best working conditions.
- A passionate team that picks up your ideas and supports you.
- Hybrid work, self-organization, and personal responsibility.
- Room for creativity and personal development.
- A chance to build experience, with the option of future employment with us.
- Compensation of €1,000.00 for mandatory internships.
If the project described interests you, you meet the qualifications listed, and you enjoy working in a dynamic team, send us your application with your CV and a short cover letter by email to jobs@schaltzeit.com.
Tell us about your motivation and your skills. Interviews can be scheduled right away. We look forward to hearing from you!
About us
Schaltzeit GmbH is a strategic management consultancy for Foresight & Innovation. Since our founding in 2006, we have worked collaboratively with experts from a wide range of fields to prepare organizations for future change. Our projects range from designing immersive events to developing digital platforms that foster knowledge transfer and networking. With clients such as Audi, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, BMW, HUK, Postbank, Telekom, Fraunhofer IAO, and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, we have realized innovative formats and solutions that support long-term transformation.

Sound exciting?
Then apply now!
