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Project & Strategic Initiatives Manager (Intern)

Gearsupply

Gearsupply

Cincinnati, OH, USA
USD 20-30 / hour
Posted on Aug 14, 2025
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This is a hands-on internship for someone who wants to learn the inner workings of a fast-scaling marketplace startup—directly alongside the CEO. You’ll be at the center of how information moves through the company, sitting in on key leadership calls, gathering updates from department heads, and helping translate decisions into action plans.

Instead of making coffee runs or filing paperwork, you’ll be learning how to coordinate multiple teams, track strategic initiatives, and ensure the CEO always has the right information to make fast, confident decisions.

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.
Application Deadline
August 31, 2025
Department
Administrative
Employment Type
Internship
Location
OTR-Cincinnati
Workplace type
Onsite
Compensation
$20.00 - $30.00 / hour
Reporting To
CEO

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.
Example Internship Projects
  • 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.

About Gearsupply

Gearsupply is the leading online marketplace for buying and selling AV equipment. Our mission is to provide buyers with the most comprehensive inventory of listings and to provide sellers with maximum exposure all across the internet. By focusing on customer service, a safe payment process, and reliable shipping partners, we strive to provide the best online marketplace all while keeping our fees significantly lower than alternatives.

Our Hiring Process

Stage 1:

Applied

Stage 2:

One-Way Video Interview + Personality Index

Stage 3:

Preliminary Phone Screener

Stage 4:

Hired

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