Accelerators Partnerships Associate Intern

Summary

Join Mercury and help empower the next generation of startups! In this role, you will work closely with the Sr. Accelerator Partnerships Manager to engage with ambitious founders. You'll enhance accelerator programs, connect founders with Mercury's resources, and identify their unique needs. This high-impact opportunity offers unparalleled exposure to founders and investors in prestigious accelerators. The role involves building relationships with accelerators, analyzing data to improve strategies, and collaborating with internal teams. It's a part-time position (20 hours/week) running from January to May.

Requirements

• Formidable analytical skills using Salesforce reports, SQL queried data and spreadsheets
• Extremely strong communications and collaborative skills
• Comfort with making networking, presenting and being in the spotlight a way of life
• Broad systems thinking default paired with focused creative problem solving
• Record of testing/experimenting based on trends you find in data
• Intentional, self-starter personality
• Current enrollment in an MBA program

Responsibilities

• Engage accelerators’ managing directors and investment teams to build Mercury champion in house with our partners
• Immerse yourself in accelerator partners’ activities to understand what’s important to founders, managing directors and investors to better guide our strategy
• Collaborate with Mercury’s Sales team to increase lead warmth and ensure they are equipped with cohort and founder information to increase conversion likelihood
• Strategize what activities can get us the best exposure within accelerator cohorts
• Analyze where we can move the needle most with accelerator cohort product adoption
• Coordinate with Mercury’s Marketing and Community teams on virtual and physical partner engagement and cohort education events
• Organize our complex partner engagement calendar to ensure important partner management activities happen on time and requisite resources are planned in advance
• Partner with Mercury’s Operations teams to optimize reporting and automate workflows for both internal stakeholders and accelerator partner contacts

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven working knowledge of SQL
• A background in Sales, CS, Partnerships or other external facing roles
• Experience working with early stage founders or in early stage startups a plus
• Familiarity with building Salesforce reports, low/no-code solution and workflows in Asana, Notion and Slack

Benefits

• Our hourly ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry
• New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers
• US employees in any location: $45.00/hour
• 20 hrs / week
• Jan through May
• Minimum 3 days / week