Lead Research Intern

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

• 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.