At Upvest, we're on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. We are building the first European Investment API that empowers businesses to offer seamless investment. experiences to their users.

Upvest is a well-funded, fast-growing FinTech with a diverse team of over 250 people from 70+ nationalities working across our hubs in Berlin, Tallinn, and London. Our latest €100m fundraising round (Series C) was led by Hedosophia and Sapphire Venture, with continued support from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Motive Ventures, and Notion Capital.

We currently employ 250+ people across Europe with our headquarters based in Berlin, Germany, and hubs in Tallinn, Estonia, and London, UK.

How we Upvest in you*:

• Work with experts: Solving complex problems and fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest by using cutting-edge technologies.

• Flexible work environment: Work from any of our hubs in Berlin, London or Tallinn hybrid or remotely across Europe, depending on the role.

• Team celebrations: Participate in company-wide events, such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and our Holiday party, to connect with colleagues and celebrate our achievements.

Your Impact:

• We are seeking an Operations Excellence Intern to support Upvest’s Operations Excellence team. In this role, you will drive strategic initiatives to optimize workflows, enhance efficiency, and ensure operational readiness.

• You’ll oversee daily operations, leverage data to implement impactful improvements, and collaborate across teams to support seamless product launches. Join us to shape and elevate our operational excellence.

What you’ll do:

• Take full ownership of strategic initiatives to streamline and enhance operational processes, aligning them with company objectives and growth strategies

• Support close collaboration with other teams to ensure operational readiness and the seamless integration of new tools and product launches, whether driven by upstream or downstream initiatives

• Utilize data-driven analysis to identify inefficiencies, workload challenges, and cost drivers, implementing impactful solutions to improve performance

• Develop cross-functional training initiatives to foster a culture of continuous improvement to ensure team agility and adaptability to evolving business needs

What you bring:

• (Ongoing) Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as Business Administration or STEM

• Strong interest in fintech, investment infrastructure and start-ups in general

• Experience with process automation, incl. Artificial Intelligence applications is a plus

• Strong data analysis skills, ideally using Python & SQL, with a proactive, self-driven approach to problem-solving

• Strong investigative and analytical abilities, with keen attention to detail and error identification

• Excellent communication skills, incl. the ability to foster cross functional collaboration

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

• Fluency in English (written and verbal); German proficiency is an advantage

Our Values:

• Make it easy for others.

• Own the outcome.

• Rise to the challenge.

• Tell the story.

Our Commitment to Belonging

At Upvest we’re dedicated to building an inclusive environment where every Upvenger feels a true sense of belonging and is empowered to do their best work. We are a proud equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Your unique path is what we value.

* These benefits apply if you will be hired in Germany, Estonia or the UK. If you live elsewhere within Europe, some of the benefits might be slightly different.