Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Takshila is a peer-to-peer co-fabrication platform connecting customers, designers, and artisans to create original products through AI-assisted design, on-demand fabrication, and blockchain-backed provenance. The Business Development Intern will help build Takshila’s ecosystem by identifying partners, developing outreach pipelines, conducting market research, qualifying leads, and supporting partnership discussions and business negotiations.
Responsibilities
- Map and pursue Takshila's ecosystem: identify and reach out to designers, master artisans, fabricators, luxury brands, and strategic partners who belong in Takshila's orbit
- Build outreach pipelines that are disciplined and human. Not spray-and-pray email blasts
- Conduct deep market research into luxury, craftsmanship, AI, Web3, and the creator economy
- Generate and qualify leads. Take them through the conversation. Understand what they need; communicate what Takshila offers
- Assist in partnership discussions and early business negotiations. Be a part of the room
- Track outreach performance and conversion rates
- Collaborate with product, design, and marketing teams to ensure what we're selling reflects what the platform actually delivers — and provide market feedback to the relevant teams
Skills
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree — from a top institution or with a track record that makes the institution irrelevant
- Demonstrable communication skills: written and verbal. You can write a cold email that gets a reply. You can hold a conversation that earns trust. You can make a case clearly and concisely
- Strong research and analytical instincts — you know how to find the right information, synthesise it, and turn it into a decision or a move
- Familiarity with LinkedIn, Google Workspace, CRM tools, and business research platforms. Knowing the tools is table stakes. Knowing how to use them to find and close real opportunities is the skill
- Comfort with ambiguity, fast pace, and high ownership
- Availability and commitment across the internship duration
- A builder with a bias for execution
- Self-directed individual and comfortable with ambiguity
- Accountable without ego
- Commercially sharp and genuinely curious
- Prior experience in sales, business development, partnerships, or growth — even if informal. Side projects, college societies, early-stage ventures, or freelance work all count
- Experience with cold outreach and lead generation. You know what a good open rate looks like and why it matters
- Understanding of marketplace businesses, platform ecosystems, and multi-sided markets
- Exposure to luxury consumer markets, creator economies, or craft and design industries — a genuine interest in an ecosystem where premium, human-made, and technology-enabled intersect
- Knowledge of AI, blockchain, or Web3 is a plus. Intellectual curiosity about where these technologies are taking commerce and ownership is more than enough to start
- Mission-obsessed, not resume-obsessed
Benefits
- Commissions on sales
- For the top performers, we are open to an ESOP-based position, where you earn a stake in what you help build.
- Direct access to founding leaders — no manager layers, no filtered information.
- Real deals, real partners, real market feedback — not mock briefs.
- Deep exposure to category creation: what it takes to build a new market, establish a new behavior, and position a platform from zero to one.
- A front-row seat at the intersection of AI, luxury, craftsmanship, and Web3.
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