Business Development Representative Intern

✨ About the Company

Makeship empowers influencers, creators, and brands of all sizes to develop and launch limited-edition products that matter to their fans. Leveraging our design, manufacturing, and marketing expertise, we work with our partners to bring their products to life through our community-powered crowdfunding platform. Each product is given a window of 21 days to be funded by the community before we produce and ship to fans worldwide. We put our brand behind every product and guarantee quality and ethical sourcing.

We're profitable, we have a three-year revenue growth of over 200%, ranking us 97th in 2024 and 86th on The Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Top Growing Companies of 2025 list. We are also excited to announce that Makeship has officially been Great Place to Work-Certified™ for 3 years in a row! Learn more about us at Makeship.com.

🧑‍💻 About the Role

As a Business Development Representative Intern (BDR) (4 or 8-month internship starting Fall 2026), you’ll help fuel Makeship’s growth by identifying and engaging new potential partners (creators, talent teams, and select brands), learning our outreach process, and supporting early pipeline development. This is a hands-on role for someone who practically lives online - plugged into gaming, trend cycles, and meme culture, and active in multiple creator fandoms. And who’s excited by creator ecosystems and relationship-driven business development.

You’ll work closely with the Partnerships team and cross-functional partners to help bring new collaborations to life.

We want this to be the best work experience of your life! A chance to learn from experienced operators and work at the intersection of gaming, D2C, and the creator economy. You’ll build real-world skills in prospecting, outreach, and relationship-building while collaborating with creators, talent teams, and select brands, and seeing how partnerships turn into launches that fans care about.

🌟 What We Are Looking For

We are looking for a BDR Intern who will play a key role in helping us identify and partner with content creators and brands that are ideal fits for Makeship’s core service offering, helping to drive our top-of-funnel business outreach.

An ideal candidate for this role is a passionate, self-aware, and self-motivated individual who spends their time watching their favourite content creators and keeping up with social media. Or, someone who loves spending time diving into the world of gaming, music, arts & animation, Roblox. As a BDR Intern, you’ll represent Makeship in creator conversations, identifying and reaching out to high-fit creators and inviting them to be part of our exclusive, limited-edition merch offering. You will also be joining one of Canada's fastest-growing start-up companies!

🚀 Your Key Responsibilities

Prospecting & Research

• Research and build targeted prospect lists across platforms (YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Instagram, Steam, & Discord), aligned to Makeship’s partnership criteria.⁠⁠
• Identify signals that make a creator/brand a strong fit (community strength, merch readiness, campaign potential, timing).

Outbound & Top-of-Funnel Support

• Draft and iterate outbound messaging (email/DM scripts) with a focus on clarity, personalization, and value proposition.
• Support initial outreach, follow-ups, and meeting-setting for qualified prospects.
• Maintain clean, organized outreach notes, status updates, and activity tracking (contacts, follow-ups, and next steps).

Pipeline & Process Support

• Assist with maintaining/updating the Partnerships pipeline and ensuring handoffs are well-documented.
• Learn Makeship’s partnership process and help refine intern-friendly repeatable workflows (templates, talk tracks, research checklists).⁠⁠

Learn the Makeship Model

• Become fluent in “how Makeship works” so you can communicate it simply and confidently: the product development flow, limited-time campaign structure, and how Makeship supports partners with marketing and fulfillment.⁠⁠

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate with the Partnerships team and cross-functional partners as needed, and keep the right stakeholders informed on outreach progress, key updates, and any blockers.

🧠 What You Bring

• Strong written communication: you can write outreach that’s warm, concise, and specific (and adjust tone for creators vs. brands).
• Research instincts: you can find the right people, verify contact paths, and build clean, targeted lists with clear rationale.
• Organized follow-through: you keep tracking spotless (notes, next steps, dates) and never let a lead go cold due to missed follow-ups.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: you ask smart questions, test approaches, and iterate quickly based on feedback and results.
• Sound judgment + integrity: you’re thoughtful about who we reach out to, how we represent Makeship, and how we handle sensitive info.
• Creator + internet culture fluency: you understand platforms, community dynamics, and what makes fans engage.
• Collaborative mindset: you communicate proactively with the Partnerships team and cross-functional partners to keep handoffs smooth.
• Resilience and curiosity: you can handle “no,” learn from it, and keep momentum without losing quality.
  

👀 Bonus

• Passion for gaming + internet culture (keeps up with trend cycles, memes, and creator fandoms)
• Plays Roblox / understands Roblox communities
• Have previously held positions in sales and/or a BDR
• Have experience with social media and/or marketing
• Have experience with a CRM (preferably Hubspot)

This position is compensated at an annualized salary of $40,000 CAD. As this is a 4 or 8-month co-op placement, the total compensation will be prorated based on the duration of the term.
Vacancy Status: Existing Vacancy 

Note: You must currently be in school to qualify for this role  
At Makeship, we are committed to fostering an environment that welcomes people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We are passionate about building an equitable and inclusive culture for our unique and diverse team of employees, which makes us Makeship. As an equal-opportunity employer, we value and embrace everyone's opinions and differences, and actively seek new Makeshippers who will work respectfully with our team, propelling our company and the community forward. If there are any accommodations we can provide to make your interview experience more accessible and inclusive, please let us know in your application.