Operations Intern (Student, DK)

Salary Unpaid

Purpose

Help athme deliver smooth, well-organized sports events by making sure every operational detail is planned, coordinated, and followed up from start to finish.

This role works closely with the COO and supports the day-to-day operations behind athme’s events, bookings, logistics, coordination, and execution. The goal is to make sure every piece is in place so athletes, communities, venues, and partners have a reliable and high-quality experience.

If you are deeply interested in how things work, how systems connect, and how to make every piece align like a perfect puzzle, this role is built for you.


What this role focuses on

  • Support planning and coordination of athme sports events from A to Z

  • Help manage event logistics, including venues, bookings, schedules, capacity, equipment, timing, and practical details

  • Coordinate with venues, partners, organizers, hosts, and internal team members to make sure everyone has the right information

  • Support the COO in building clear operational processes, checklists, routines, and follow-up systems

  • Make sure upcoming events are properly prepared before they go live

  • Help ensure event information is accurate, clear, and ready for participants

  • Track event status, open tasks, deadlines, and dependencies across multiple activities

  • Follow up on bookings, confirmations, changes, and operational details

  • Support event-day preparation so hosts and participants know what to expect

  • Help identify risks or gaps before they become problems

  • Document what works, what breaks, and what can be improved after each event

  • Support improvements to fill rate, participation, attendance, and overall event quality through better operations

  • Work closely with community, marketing, data, and product roles to make sure event planning is aligned with demand and communication

  • Help create scalable operational systems that make it easier for athme to run more events across more sports

  • Translate plans into execution, making sure ideas become real, organized experiences for the community


What you bring / Profile

  • Highly structured, detail-oriented, and reliable

  • Strong interest in operations, coordination, planning, logistics, or startup execution

  • Curious about how things work and how to improve the systems behind them

  • Comfortable managing many small details without losing sight of the bigger picture

  • Good at organizing tasks, timelines, information, and follow-ups

  • Proactive mindset. You notice what is missing, ask the right questions, and take initiative to solve problems

  • Comfortable communicating with different people, including venues, partners, hosts, and internal team members

  • Calm and practical when plans change or unexpected issues appear

  • No formal experience required. Student jobs, volunteering, sports clubs, student organizations, event planning, hospitality, or side projects are strong signals

  • Comfortable working in a startup environment where priorities can evolve and execution matters

  • Interest in sports, events, communities, and athme’s mission is a strong plus

  • Student based in Denmark


What we offer

  • A real chance to work on a live product used by real communities

  • Meaningful responsibility from day one, with ownership over your work and clear expectations

  • Close collaboration with the COO and direct exposure to how operational decisions are made

  • Hands-on experience with event planning, logistics, coordination, venue management, and startup operations

  • A structured and well-organized setup with clear communication, documentation, and follow-ups

  • Flexibility that works well alongside studies, with a part-time commitment and remote-friendly setup

  • Regular in-person moments in Copenhagen to build relationships and momentum

  • Strong learning curve across operations, community, growth, product, logistics, and startup execution

  • Opportunity to build real operational systems, playbooks, checklists, and processes that athme can scale

  • A team that cares about doing things properly, with quality, clarity, and consistency

  • A real chance to grow into a paid role after funding, based on performance and mutual fit

  • Potential consideration for long-term ownership or equity participation for people who commit and grow with the company


Duration: Minimum 3 months, part-time or full time.

Start date: ASAP.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Near public transit
Near public transit

Gamified office
Gamified office

Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

Unlimited holiday
Unlimited holiday

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

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Working at
athme

athme is building a category defining app for real world sports and social connection. Our platform makes it easy to discover activities, join games, and build communities through movement. From football, padel, badminton, volleyball, basketball, table tennis, running, fitness, and chess to handball, bouldering, and pickleball, athme helps people find the right activity and the right people to play with. We believe sport is one of the strongest drivers of health, belonging, and community. But for many people, getting active is still harder than it should be. Finding players, organizing games, and joining activities often takes too much effort. athme is built to remove that friction and make sport a more natural part of everyday life. Our mission is to help more people move, meet, and build real connections through sport. We are creating a product with the potential to become a core platform for active communities, starting locally and built to scale.

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