Dwell Business Development Internship Position

Dwell is part of the Columbia Startup Lab in Soho, NY.

Dwell is a personal life management platform aimed at helping people manage and track their adulting responsibilities. Dwell is developing a new-age, easy, and effortless tool enhancing the productivity and efficiency of accomplishing critical tasks in one’s personal life.

For our exciting Business Development department we are looking for a diligent, motivated and creative individual who finds opportunity in every challenge and thinks out of the box when it comes to the growth and the success of our platform and product.

This will give you a unique opportunity to learn about the startup world in the deep tech industry while offering you powerful insights into the way we set and accomplish our business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Identify potential business partners and affiliate relationships in the target market and complete appropriate research on the prospective client’s business and equipment needs
• Develop relationships with prospective business partners and affiliates, while maintaining existing relationships
• Work with management to create proposals for current and prospective business partners
• Become a subject matter expert on our business products, processes and operations, and remain up-to-date on industry news
• Collaborate with design and production teams to ensure contracted product specifications are executed on-time and as agreed
• Prospecting potential customers: by phone, by email, physically…
• Selling products or services to customers.
• Identifying new development channels.
• Promoting the company and its product/service.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in related field
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Linkedin
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• The intellectual curiosity to truly learn about all aspects of our business and new tools/skills.
• Ambitious and willing to take on projects that may even be outside this job description to help the company grow
• Excellent time management and organizational ability.
• You have a diligent work ethic, desiring to work in a fast-paced environment that supports a balance of independent work and team collaboration.
• Ambitious and willing to take on projects that may even be outside this job description to help the company grow
• Willingness to work on projects outside of job description when necessary
• Internship is unpaid