ABOUT WETRAVEL

WeTravel (www.wetravel.com) is an online payment platform that empowers organizers and small travel groups to take control of their trip finances, communication, and marketing from a single platform.

“THE BEST TOOL FOR ORGANIZING, SHARING & MANAGING MBA TRIPS”

Travel organizers are able to quickly build a booking page, securely collect payments, and utilize a travel-focused dashboard to manage all of the administrative tasks involved in organizing a successful trip. 

We are looking to extend our team with an MBA intern (or three) to maintain and build upon our success in the MBA travel segment.

ROLE SUMMARY

In this role, you will work closely with the Co-founder/CMO on getting MBA students, and potentially other graduate students, to use WeTravel to organize trips. We have built a strong presence in top US business schools over the past 5 years and collected a vast knowledge about MBA trips. Universities that have used WeTravel include Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, Columbia, UCLA, UMich, Northwestern, NYU, UChicago, Georgetown, Duke, UT Austin, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, etc. 

Your main deliverable will be to reach out to potential MBA trip leaders for 2021-22 academic year. You can also suggest new projects that you want to do to gain experience in travel technology and startups.

You should have a strong can-do attitude, be organized, and target-driven. You should also be comfortable pitching an idea/product over email, phone, and in person. 

Role Responsibilities

• Effectively pitch MBA students, and potentially non-MBA students, to use WeTravel
• Develop sales collaterals to aid the growth of student segment on WeTravel, e.g. e-book about how to organize student trips
• Own the relationships with potential MBA trip leaders
• Identify and execute new ideas to grow WeTravel's student segment

Requirements

• MBA student during the 2021/2022 academic year
• Organized and target-driven
• Strong listening skills and orientation towards service
• Strong network with current MBA students in top US / European business schools
• Prior experience in organizing MBA trips is a major advantage

What We Offer

WeTravel is a young and very fast-growing scale up based in San Francisco and Amsterdam with a global team. This means that you will see visible results of your work and everything you do will make a difference to the whole company. There are great career opportunities as we continue to grow if you prove yourself up to the task. Read about us on TechCrunch, Huffington Post, Tnooz, Skift, Lonely Planet etc: www.wetravel.com/press 

Additionally, you will receive a base salary, uncapped commission as a percentage of our revenue from MBA trip organizers that you acquire, so our incentives are aligned. The more WeTravel gets, the more you get. Historically, transaction volumes in the MBA segment are in the 7-digit range.