Creative Agency Partnerships Intern

Creative Agency Partnerships Intern

Type: Internship

What we’re building

We’re building a platform that helps ecommerce teams find, test, and validate improvements to online storefronts.

Creative agencies, ecommerce consultants, design studios, Shopify developers, and growth firms already help brands improve their customer experience. We want to work with the best of them and become a useful part of how they serve their clients.

This is a business development role for someone interested in the intersection of design, commerce, agencies, client service, and partnerships.

What you’ll do

You’ll help us build relationships with:

• Branding and design studios.
• Ecommerce agencies.
• Shopify developers.
• Conversion and growth consultants.
• UX and web-design firms.
• Freelance designers and strategists.
• Student-run agencies and creative organizations.

Your work may include:

• Researching agencies and understanding what each one actually does.
• Identifying firms whose clients would benefit from faster experimentation.
• Mapping founders, partners, strategists, and client-service leaders.
• Writing thoughtful outreach based on the agency’s work and positioning.
• Joining partner conversations and taking useful notes.
• Helping develop referral, reseller, co-marketing, or client-service partnerships.
• Creating agency-specific messaging and simple partnership materials.
• Following up and coordinating next steps.
• Learning why some agencies adopt new tools while others do not.
• Bringing agency feedback into our product and go-to-market decisions.

Who we’re looking for

You do not have to be a designer. You do need to care about good design and understand that design exists to solve problems.

You may be a strong fit if:

• You can look at an agency website and quickly understand its positioning.
• You communicate professionally without becoming stiff.
• You enjoy learning how different businesses make money.
• You can explain an idea differently to a designer, founder, strategist, or salesperson.
• You ask smart follow-up questions.
• You are comfortable reaching out to someone you have never met.
• You prepare before meetings.
• You treat small commitments seriously.
• You like connecting people and spotting mutually useful relationships.

Strong signals

• Experience with a student agency, design organization, consulting club, publication, or creative project.
• Freelance work for a business, club, creator, or local organization.
• Familiarity with branding, UX, Shopify, ecommerce, advertising, or customer experience.
• A side project where you had to find customers or collaborators.
• Evidence that you can turn messy research into a clear recommendation.
• A story about recovering a relationship or project that was going poorly.

This probably is not a fit if

• You use design vocabulary without being able to explain the business problem.
• You treat operational work and CRM updates as beneath you.
• You avoid direct conversations.
• You send outreach without researching the recipient.
• You optimize for the number of messages sent rather than the quality of conversations.
• You make commitments on behalf of other people without checking first.

Why join

• Work directly with founders rather than through several management layers.
• Learn how agency economics, partnerships, sales, and client service work.
• Build a real professional network.
• Help shape a partner program from an early stage.
• Gain experience relevant to design strategy, consulting, account management, sales, and entrepreneurship.
• Take ownership of a category rather than performing miscellaneous intern tasks.

How to apply

Send:

1. Your résumé.
2. A one-page Design Partner Note containing:
   • One studio, agency, or consultant we should meet.
   • What they do particularly well.
   • Why a partnership could make sense.
   • Who you would contact.
   • The opening message you would send.

We are looking for judgment, not a perfect presentation deck.