Business Development Intern
Business Development Intern
SnapMatePhoto is a photography marketplace connecting customers with vetted local photographers. In 6 months we've onboarded 100+ photographers, signed up 600+ customers, and processed 1,000+ booking requests, all on a small team. We're hiring a Business Development Intern to help us grow faster on three fronts: bringing on new photographers, closing B2B partnerships, and making sure every booked session actually happens.
This is a commission-only role with huge ownership. You'd be building this function from 0 to 1 alongside the founder, which means real exposure to how a marketplace actually grows. If you're passionate about sales and want to learn fast, this is the kind of seat that compounds in your career.
What this role is really about
Our growth right now is bottlenecked by three things: not enough photographers in our supply pool, not enough B2B partners feeding us recurring demand, and not enough hands keeping individual sessions on track once they're booked.
You'd own all three. You're the person who turns a cold list into a closed deal, and a closed deal into a session that actually happens.
What you'll actually do
- Photographer acquisition: Find local photographers worth recruiting, pitch them on joining SnapMatePhoto, walk them through onboarding, and follow up until they're active on the platform.
- B2B partnerships: Identify and close partnerships with businesses, venues, schools, event organizers, real estate agencies, and anyone else who books photographers in volume. Build the pipeline, run the outreach, close the deal.
- Session facilitation: Respond to incoming booking requests, match photographers to customers, and follow up to make sure sessions go smoothly from booking to delivery.
You'll have direct access to the founder, the existing pipeline, and the playbook our previous interns built. You're not starting from zero, but you'll have room to improve everything.
What we're looking for
- Genuinely passionate about sales and excited to learn how it works in a real marketplace
- Takes ownership without being asked. You see something broken, you fix it.
- Creative. You can come up with five new ways to reach a photographer or a partner before lunch.
- Familiar with social media outreach (Instagram DMs, LinkedIn, TikTok, wherever the audience lives)
- Comfortable making cold calls and not afraid of the phone
- Disciplined with follow-up. Most deals close in the 3rd, 4th, or 7th touch.
Bonus points if you have
- Experience in marketplaces, photography, events, real estate, or hospitality
- A network of photographers, small business owners, or event organizers we could tap into
- Experience with CRM tools (we use Asana for our pipeline)
You'll thrive here if you
- Get energy from closing a deal and from learning what made it close
- Treat "no" as information, not rejection
- Want to learn how a marketplace actually grows from the inside
- Take real ownership and don't wait for someone to hand you a script
The deal
This is a commission-only contractor role. You earn based on what you bring in: photographers you onboard, partnerships you close, sessions you help make happen. We'll walk you through the structure in the interview so we can match it to what motivates you.
What this role actually is:
- Direct mentorship from the founder on how to sell, close, and grow a marketplace
- Full ownership of three real revenue levers, not a side project
- A portfolio of closed deals you can point to in your next interview
- 0 to 1 building experience that most interns never get
- A founder reference who will vouch for you in detail, with specifics, to your next employer
How to apply
Send the following to snapmate@snapmatephoto.com :
- Resume
- A short paragraph (3 to 4 sentences) on the most creative outreach campaign you've run, or a time you convinced someone of something hard. Be specific.
- Your earliest start date
Bonus points if you check snapmatephoto.com first to see how the platform actually works, and mention one thing you'd improve about how we acquire photographers or customers.