Business Development & Partnerships Associate

We're looking for someone who is able to start in early August and continue with us through the fall semester (there may be an opportunity to continue beyond the fall semester)

This is an unpaid internship.

Website: Dev.mylawly.com (in development)

Business Development & Partnerships Associate— Lawly

Lawly is building the go-to marketplace connecting law school applicants with admissions consultants. We're looking for someone to help grow our network of consultants and partners — and to do it as part of a small, early-stage team where your work has a direct, visible impact.

This is a great fit if you're drawn to the startup world and want real exposure to it, not an internship where you're one of fifty people doing the same narrow task, but one where you're close to the actual growth engine of a company still being built.

A flavor of what you might work on:

• Reaching out to admissions consultants to bring them onto the Lawly platform
• Identifying and proposing partnerships with organizations that make sense for Lawly to work with
• Setting up and managing referral and affiliate marketing relationships with partners — from the initial proposal through ongoing account management
• Researching the competitive landscape and potential partnership opportunities
• Tracking pipeline, follow-ups, and relationship status so nothing slips through the cracks
• Jumping into new BD experiments as we test what channels and partnerships move the needle

You won't be handed a script. You'll be handed context, a goal, and the trust to figure out a good chunk of it yourself, with the founder available to guide you, answer questions, and give real feedback along the way.

What you'll get:

• Direct, regular access to the founder — no layers of management between you and real decisions
• A genuine, unfiltered experience of what building a startup actually looks like day to day
• Real ownership over relationships, partnerships, and outreach, not busywork with no context
• A front-row seat to how a company builds its network and grows from the ground up
• Hands-on experience with outreach, partnership negotiation, and affiliate/referral program management, skills that transfer to nearly any career path
• A resume line that reflects real business development experience, not just "helped with marketing"

What we're looking for:

• Comfortable reaching out to people you don't know and building relationships from scratch
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Organized, with real follow-through on outreach and pipeline tracking
• Genuinely curious about startups and how growth actually happens, not just looking to pad a resume
• Available for regular, part-time hours (unpaid internship, flexible around your schedule)

If you're energized by the idea of helping build something from the ground up and want to actually experience startup life instead of just reading about it, we'd love to hear from you.