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Business Development internship at Momkai

September 2024 — February 2025

At Momkai, the strategic branding and design agency, we welcome a business development intern to join our international team. Help us empower communities globally and build new brands, with a drive to create meaningful work, guided by a strong moral compass.

Join us to help mission-driven organizations worldwide with branding that builds movements. We've helped to launch global platforms, break crowdfunding world records, and build impactful brands. We create meaningful experiences for members online and in the real world through memberful design.

About Momkai

Memberful design

Global clients past and present include Adyen, Red Bull, Nike, the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB), Golazo, Canada Goose and New York University (NYU). Our team worked closely with the founders of Rutger Bregman's The School for Moral Ambition, VanMoof, Bugaboo, Oncode Institute and Renews Japan. Momkai helped to co-found, design, and build De Correspondent, now the third largest membership journalism platform in the world (and a client for over 10 years).

The brands and platforms that we create are guided by our design philosophy of calm. It allows us to be kind, constructive, and creative. This philosophy stems from a drive for quality. We are focused on creating online spaces of calm  — so that only the content can drive members to distraction.

Thanks to our four-year collaboration with NYU, we learned that a memberful approach provides a better and healthier route to sustainability. That’s how we became the home of memberful design.

With memberful design, we connect individuals’ passions to a shared larger purpose. We believe these meaningful member experiences create durable initiatives, as we experienced with De Correspondent. You can read more on its member-supported growth in Press Gazette.


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About your role

Create opportunities

We are looking for a talented business development intern with a drive to spot opportunities, expand our reach and write proposals and project plans. You assist the growth team with prospect research work, spark new ideas and think out-of-the-box when it comes to business development — guided by strategic insights and thorough research. An entrepreneurial spirit and strong writing skills are key for this role.

At Momkai, you will be welcomed by a close-knit team, who will do anything in our power to make you feel at home and help you develop your skills and knowledge of both commercial as operational activities. During your internship, you will be mentored by our new business director, who will help you set and achieve your internship goals. Together, you will be doing research into new markets, new leads and new strategies. Captured in structured documents, convincing emails and modern tools.

What we offer:

  • International team — creative, kind and focused on making beautiful work

  • A friendly environment that’s gezellig — with lunch and laptop included

  • Room for personal development — guidance for growth and training

  • Internship compensation — 400 EUR/month based on a 40hr week

  • Amsterdam’s city center — spacious studio near Central Station

  • Terrace on the waterfront — with private parking spaces


What we ask:

  • Educational institution — registered in European Union (required)

  • Research skills — eager to learn

  • Commercial thinking — curious, creative and out-of-the-box 

  • Entrepreneurial spirit — hands-on mentality and a proactive mindset

  • Available for 5 to 6 months — starting in September 2024

  • Studying business development or commercial economy — at bachelor or a higher level

  • Dutch speaking is a plus — proficient in English