Hybrid Project & Strategic Initiatives Manager (Intern) chez Gearsupply
Gearsupply · Cincinnati, États-Unis d'Amérique · Hybrid
- Bureau à Cincinnati
If you’re hungry to learn startup operations from the inside out, this internship will give you the exposure, training, and responsibility to make an impact right away.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate updates: Collect project progress reports from multiple stakeholders and synthesize them into concise summaries for the CEO.
- Track commitments: Maintain a living dashboard of ongoing initiatives, deadlines, and owners.
- Push decisions back downstream: Help translate CEO guidance into clear next steps for each relevant team or stakeholder.
- Prep leadership meetings: Ensure agendas are ready, inputs are gathered, and follow-ups are tracked to completion.
- Spot risks: Flag blockers early so they can be addressed before they become urgent.
- Build lightweight systems: Assist in creating repeatable processes for reporting and accountability.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong organizational skills and comfort managing multiple moving parts.
- Excellent written and verbal communication—able to distill complex updates into clear takeaways.
- Tech- and tools-savvy (bonus if you’ve used project management platforms before).
- Proactive and resourceful—comfortable following up and clarifying details without waiting to be told.
- Curious about startups, business operations, and leadership.
- Weekly Leadership Brief: Collect key updates from each department, package them for CEO review, and ensure follow-up tasks are logged.
- Strategic Initiative Tracker: Build and maintain a simple project dashboard that keeps top priorities visible at all times.
- Explore Opening up LatAm Office: Research, costs, and legal to establish a sales office in Mexico as well as what potential insurances and payroll tools we may need.
What You’ll Learn
- How CEOs manage information flow across a fast-moving company.
- Real-world stakeholder management—working with everyone from department heads to external partners.
- How strategic decisions get made, tracked, and executed at the leadership level.
- Hands-on experience with operational and project management tools (Notion, Airtable, Asana, Monday.com, etc.).
- The rhythms and cadences of a venture-backed startup.