Founders' Associate - Strategic Projects Intern

We're a product-first team on a mission to help grow the cybersecurity culture 🔐 We want to instill cybersecurity good practices to employees in a way that's actually effective, and entertaining enough so that employees don't feel like they're working. Think Duolingo but for cybersecurity. We created a platform to easily rollout a cybersecurity awareness program: the platform sends chat-based 4-minutes long courses to teams. Following the courses, the other side of the platform simulates phishing attacks, to prepare employees to face hackers, but in a safe environment. Created in 2020, Riot has raised $45m with leading investors (Y Combinator, Left Lane, Base10, Funders Club and First Capital) and is now protecting more than 2,000,000 employees in over 2,000 companies (including Intercom, Deel, and Deezer) all over the world. Cybersecurity is everywhere. It's impacting everyone, everyday, and it's becoming the number one risk to any organization, whether it's a small business or a big firm. Yet, the cybersecurity culture in most companies is a disaster. Hackers are leveraging this by targeting the weakest link: the employees. We're on a mission to fix that. We're hiring a Strategic Projects Intern (Founders Associate) to report to our Chief of Staff and work directly with our CEO , and more broadly with our Executive Committee, on the company's strategic projects. This is not a support internship. This role offers a unique opportunity to get a great overview of key strategic topics across multiple facets of the business, working at the intersection of revenue and operations. You will move fast between building business cases, aligning stakeholders across teams, and delivering results on topics that directly shape Riot's trajectory. This position is open for end-of-study interns based in Paris . 6-month internship, starting January 2027 . Requirements What you will do 🤝 You will own strategic projects that don't have a natural owner in any single team. As such, the list below is not exhaustive but here's a sense of what you might work on: 1️⃣ Drive revenue & growth initiatives Identify expansion opportunities and create go-to-market plans for new growth streams (market, segements). Conduct market analyses, financial models, and business opportunity assessments that feed directly into leadership decisions. Example of projects: Launch Riot's Partner Program: build the ecosystem (referrers, resellers, strategic alliances) to open new segments and geographies, model the economics and build the activation playbook end-to-end. Pricing adaptation: structure pricing for international markets or specific customer segments as we expand. 2️⃣ Lead Strategic Initiatives from 0 to 1 For each project, define what success looks like, build the 0 to 1 and align stakeholders to bridge the gap. Example of projects: New market operational launch: coordinate everything that makes it real (legal structure, local partners, product…