Strategic Partnerships Intern

This is an Unpaid, learning-focused internship. 

We just opened 5 FREE seats for a Strategic Partnerships Intern.

• *FREE = costs you nothing, pays you in skills, tools, portfolio – and commission.
• Most people don't even know strategic partnerships is a career.
• They graduate. They look at "sales" or "marketing" or "consulting." Because that's what they know exists.
• Nobody tells them about partnerships.
• The work where every deal is different. Where creativity beats scripts. Where you build long-term relationships, not transactional wins.
• The work AI won't take.

Here's why partnerships matter in 2025:

• AI is coming for transactional sales. Cold outreach? Automated. Product demos? AI can do it. Closing standard deals? Give it 3 years.
• But partnerships? Too creative. Too multi-format. Too human.
• Every partnership is unique. Different stakeholders. Different value exchange. Different implementation. There's no playbook you can hand to AI and say "do this 1,000 times."
• Which means: while everyone else worries about AI taking their job, you'll have a skill it can't replace.

So we asked ourselves:

• What if we trained people in a profession most don't even know exists?
• Not sales. Not marketing. Not "a little bit of both."
• But strategic partnerships. The real kind.

We run 9 types of partnerships:

1. Events – Joint events, co-hosting, speaker exchanges
2. Integrations – Technical integrations with complementary products
3. Educators – Training providers, course creators, educational institutions
4. Co-Sell – Selling together with partners to shared customers
5. Communities – Community partnerships, access to engaged audiences
6. Advisors – Strategic advisors who open doors and provide guidance
7. Affiliates – Performance-based referral partnerships
8. Influencers – Industry voices who amplify our message
9. Marketplaces – Listing and distribution partnerships
10. Link Building – SEO partnerships for mutual backlink value

Each one is a different game. Different partners. Different value propositions. Different implementation strategies.

You won't master all 9 in 6 months. But you'll learn the system. You'll own 2-3 types deeply. You'll understand how partnership thinking works across all of them.

And you'll take them from first contact all the way to implementation. The full cycle.

→ Weeks 1-2: You're learning all 9 partnership types, understanding how each works, getting onboarded

→ Weeks 3-4: Trial period – you're testing 1-2 partnership types with real partners, we're both deciding if this fits

→ Months 2-6: You're owning multiple partnership types, taking them from first contact to implementation, building systems that work

What you'll actually do:

• Prioritize potential partnerships based on strategic value (not every company should be a partner)
• Build relationships and establish genuine connection with people (partnerships are human-first)
• Find the mutual value and the right partnership format (what works for both sides)
• Document partnerships and moderate the process across stakeholders to implementation (coordinate, don't micromanage)

Who Should Apply:

Recent graduates in Communications, Marketing, or Business. This works best with deep immersion - the more hours you put in, the faster you'll learn and ship. Some interns do 15-20 hours/week, others go full-time (40 hours/week). Full-time means you build more, learn faster, and see stronger results in 6 months.

Fair warning:

This isn't for everyone.

• If you're not willing to spend 2 weeks learning before you start contributing → This requires deep understanding of each partnership type first
• If you want a predictable playbook → Every partnership is different, there's no script
• If you like quick transactional wins → Partnerships are long-term, complex, relationship-based
• If you can't juggle multiple contexts → You'll be working across different partnership types simultaneously

But if you recently graduated, want to learn a career path most don't know exists, get excited by creative problem-solving where every partnership is a unique puzzle, enjoy building relationships not just closing deals, and want work that's too creative and human for AI to replace – we should talk.

Because here's what we believe:

• 0% of valuable partnerships come from scripts.
• 0% of great partnership professionals learned by doing just one piece of the cycle.
• 100% of strategic partnership skills come from taking deals from research to results.

What happens after 6 months?

You complete the internship program and join our alumni network.

Top performers get considered for our Partnership Manager position (paid, equity, real role).

Either way, you leave with:

• Experience in strategic partnerships (a career most people don't discover until years into sales)
• A working system across 9 partnership types (breadth few professionals ever get)
• A portfolio of partnerships you built from scratch
• Skills AI won't replace

The best partnerships don't feel like deals, they feel like collaboration.

Ready to learn a career you didn't know existed?

Apply: Record a 1-minute video (phone quality is fine) explaining:

• What excites you about strategic partnerships? (even if you just learned this career exists)
• Pick one of our 9 partnership types and explain why that model makes sense
• Why you, why now, why this internship?

Send your video with the application: 
"Copy and Paste the link below":
https://app.dover.com/apply/Unstuck%20Engine/2cb2a6f3-b9da-4f46-b7e8-020d4784fd90?rs=72237129

(And if this feels too complex or ambiguous for you? That's okay. Better we both know now.)

P.S. — Still reading? Good. Go explore our 9 partnership types. Pick one. Understand why it works. Then record that video. We want people who can think strategically about partnerships, not just follow a sales playbook.