Job description
Description
We’re hiring a Lead Research Intern to support Soda’s go-to-market team by building and refining high-quality outbound lead lists. You’ll work closely with Marketing, Sales, and a founder to identify and prioritize target accounts and decision-makers across our ICP. Your work will directly fuel pipeline generation and help us scale our outreach efforts. This is a high-impact, detail-oriented role. If you perform, we expect you to grow into a full-time role such as SDR.
This week is Soda’s first Launch Week. We are launching new features every single day this week. To standout for this internship, contribute meaningfully to launch week, we will notice. Learn more at launch.soda.io
Responsibilities
Depending on your strengths and interests, you’ll be involved in areas such as:
Prospect and account research:
Identify and enrich leads across target accounts using tools like LinkedIn
Maintain lead data quality and ensure accurate mapping to personas, industry verticals, and technologies
Research and document relevant insights on accounts to support personalized outreach
List-building and campaign support:
Support campaign list creation for outbound, ABM, and event-based programs
Collaborate with the Sales and Marketing teams to align on ICP and persona targeting
Iterate and improve segmentation logic based on campaign performance
Operational enablement:
Clean and structure data before upload to CRM or marketing automation platforms
Analyze bounce rates, reply rates, and engagement to inform targeting strategies
Identify and document patterns in lead quality and outreach outcomes
About Soda
Soda helps customers detect, resolve, and prevent data quality issues by combining automated post-production monitoring with pre-production pipeline data testing. We enable Data Engineers to effectively own DQ by “shifting left” the data quality initiatives from business to engineering.
Soda was founded in 2019 by Maarten, an employee #5 in Collibra, where he worked in Go-To-Market leadership, and Tom, who launched multiple OSS projects that generated 100s Million in value. Together, they built a tool that ensures data quality across Data Engineering, Data Governance, and business use cases.
Soda’s product offering consists of an open-source project called Soda Core, which is used by companies like Tesla, Slack, Adyen, Walmart, and JPMC. Soda commercializes its software through the Soda Cloud product. We’re well-funded, with investors like Point 9 Capital, Hummingbird, Singular, and Eurazeo.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the Data Quality software used by Data Engineers for the decades to come.
Our Values
We value freedom with responsibility, transparency, and a growth mindset. We dislike politics and bullshit and value open and direct communication without judgment. We proactively bring up and address potential issues before they become critical and overcommunicate frequently. Working at Soda, you will have full autonomy to make impactful product and roadmap decisions and prioritize and organize your work how you see fit.
❤ Why you will love to join Soda
Working with a fast-growing international VC-funded startup with a flat structure
You will have full ownership of the things you work on
An international and diverse team
Fully remote, flexible work, with as many opportunities to meet up as you want!
Open Source Product with all the perks that come with that
😡 What you might not love
Fast-paced environment with a LOT of work to be done
You will have to learn new things all the time
Requirements
Requirements
Ruthless attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and high responsiveness
Excellent English communication skills, written and verbal
Fast learner, quick to pick up new tools and workflows
Proactive and independent, not afraid to push back when needed
Nice to haves
STEM or engineering background, or interest in AI/data
Prior startup, tech sales, or fast-paced work experience
Business, economics, or related academic background
This is not a passive internship. You’ll be expected to operate like a core part of the growth team.
