What the role involves
About HyLight
- HyLight’s mission is to help society become more resilient to climate change by improving the observation and inspection of infrastructure.
- We build HyLighters, airships that collect data across vast distances with zero emissions.
Our activities include
- Detecting methane leaks from gas infrastructures (4% of global GHG emissions)
- Inspecting power lines to prevent outages and wildfires
- By 2030, we aim to become the global leader in aerial monitoring.
- In just 3 years, we have pushed the realm of possibilities: as we have:
- Developed 8 iterations of the HyLighter
- Logged over 200 flight hours
- Secured our first inspection contracts with Europe’s largest infrastructure operators
- Joined the world’s top startup accelerator, Y Combinator
- Raised €6 millions
HyLight is aiming for a diverse and included team, if your profile doesn't fit all the description but you can bring a diverse point of view, push it forward, it will be highly appreciated.
We’re well-funded and backed by top investors, providing the resources you wish you had when building your own business. We don’t care about traditional roles or titles—just that you’re smart, proactive, and bring the same founder-level ownership and drive to help us build something massive.
Job Summary
You’ll be part of the business team, working directly with our co-founder and CBO Thomas Laporte, as well as with our co-founder and CEO Martin Bocken and collaborate with the Operation team. You’ll get a 360° hands-on experience on all the aspects of the business in a startup environment (sales, prospection, marketing and communication). You’ll have impact and the opportunity to fully join the team in a long term position at the end of the internship.
The Mission
You will, with the help of the CBO
- Directly contact and discuss with prospects all around the world to qualify their needs;
- Enhance business software and accelerate sales by implementing automation and AI based tech;
- Develop a dashboard to automatically follow prospection and sales data;
- Learn to put in place and follow a sales development methodology.
Personal Note from Thomas (CBO)
This is the experience that I would have loved to get when I was studying in my business school and asking myself “should I try to launch my company?”. It will be, for you, a broad experience of business in a young tech startup. It is a unique opportunity to be hands-on and to have real impact on real business cases.
Profile Sought
Education
Currently finishing business studies at business school or university;
The following list of skills is exhaustive, while you may not perfectly fit with the profile, we highly value personal growth and development. You are a potential future team leader at HyLight.
Technical Skills
This is an exhaustive list of sought after skills, if you have
- Knowledge in organization softwares (Slack, Notion etc).
- Knowledge in sales software (Attio, Hubspot etc).
- Experience in using softwares, tools, no-code and playing with them.
Soft Skills
- Hands-on experience on professional team projects.
- Active curiosity and initiative taker.
- Fast learner.
- Strong rigor, routine builder and follower.
- Languages: English (fluent) ; German / Spanish (is a plus) ; French (is a plus but not necessary).
Bonus Qualities
- Strong analytical and synthesizing mindset.
- Proactive in proposing alternative ways to reach goals.
- Risk taker.
- Capable of estimating and communicating progress, meeting development timelines while anticipating challenges.
- Prior personal or academic projects in startup launching.
What We Offer
- Real responsibility and mentorship with the Business and CEO.
- Potential to become a shareholder in HyLight upon hiring.
- 100% reimbursement of public transport pass (Navigo) or €800/year for sustainable commuting.
- Bike provided for commuting.
- Free lunch.
- Bi-annual offsite trips with the whole team.
- Excellent work environment: international team, team events, beautiful offices on a former airbase.
Why You Sho
About HyLight
HyLight builds and operates autonomous airships for long range monitoring. We focus on detecting methane leaks on pipelines and defects on power lines. Our innovation, the HyLighter, is a crossover between drone and airship technology. Like a drone, it is easily controllable and transportable. And, like an airship, it is extremely energy-efficient, enabling it to fly for up to 10 hours at slow speed (22mph) for optimal data collection which represents a range of 220miles. Today, energy infrastructure operators struggle with conducting inspections that are simultaneously: massive and precise. HyLight offers a solution to precisely detect issues on the infrastructure at an industrial scale, and all of this without emitting GHGs. We are 3 co-founders experienced in hardware and energy companies with Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Business from the best Engineering and Business School in France. We have developed 5 different flying aircrafts and signed 5 pilots programs with major energy infrastructure operators. We also have LOIs worth over $3.5M.
Full HyLight profile