Love traveling in your spare time?

Excited to work within an International team?

Want to be part of a rapidly scaling company?

YOUR JOURNEY STARTS HERE...

Founded in 2016 as a platform to organize treks in top US business schools, WeTravel has evolved to be a complete booking and payments platform for multi-day travel businesses. Over 3,000 companies trust WeTravel’s SaaS and fintech suites to accept payments instantly, manage bookings efficiently, and transfer funds globally. With hundreds of millions in payments processed throughout our platform every year, WeTravel is the leading financial platform in multi-day travel.

Headquartered in Amsterdam and San Francisco, we are a global team with 54% identified as women and 20+ nationalities. We are a team of more than 80 people, working from around the world. WeTravel is “Great Place to Work” certified in 2022, externally verifying our business’ commitment to value our people.

OUR VALUES

This position presents the opportunity to work in a business-critical role in a rapidly growing company. You will also uphold our four core values:

• Be the solution - take ownership, drive collaboration
• Be resourceful - strive for new wins every day
• Be honest - default to transparency
• Be respectful - treat others like you want to be treated

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups and would invite you to apply. A diverse workforce is a highly productive one, so why not take a chance, send us your application even if you don't meet all our requirements, we may surprise you!

“Culture add” is so much better than "culture fit" and we welcome applications from all groups, irrespective of your, age, disability, gender reassignment, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, veteran status, and sexual orientation.

THE ROLE

In this role, you will work closely with the Co-founder/CMO on getting MBA students, and potentially other graduate students, to use WeTravel to organize trips. The Co-founder/CMO did this MBA outreach himself when he had just started WeTravel!

We have built a strong presence in top US business schools over the past 5 years, especially pre-Covid, and collected a vast knowledge about MBA trips. Universities that have used WeTravel include Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, Columbia, UCLA, UMich, Northwestern, NYU, UChicago, Georgetown, Duke, UT Austin, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, etc. See this page for details: https://product.wetravel.com/u...

Your main deliverable will be to reach out to potential MBA trip leaders for the 2022/23 academic year. You can also suggest new projects that you want to do to gain experience in travel technology and startups. You will work during the Fall semester (August-December).

You should have a strong can-do attitude, be organized, and be target-driven. You should also be comfortable pitching an idea/product over email, phone, and in person.

Role Responsibilities

• Effectively pitch MBA students, and potentially non-MBA students, to use WeTravel
• Develop sales collaterals/content marketing to aid the growth of the student segment on WeTravel, e.g. create a shareable/downloadable presentation about how to organize student trips, improve our landing page for university/MBA travel
• Own the relationships with potential MBA trek leaders, and connect them with our customer support team when needed
• Identify and execute new ideas to grow WeTravel’s student segment
• You will work for approximately 2.5-5 hours/week. If necessary and/or preferred, you can travel for a sales trip to meet MBA trek leaders in person (all expenses paid by the company).
• You will work during the Fall semester, from August to December 2022, with a possible extension. (We will be hiring for this role as soon as possible or by end of August/early September.)

Requirements

• MBA student during the 2022/2023 academic year, preferably a second-year student
• Organized and target-driven
• Strong network with current MBA students in top US / European business schools
• Prior experience in organizing MBA treks is an advantage
• International students are encouraged to apply!

You'll receive

- a monthly stipend as the base salary

- commission based on the number of trips and amount of transactions

- flight and accommodation to visit our HQ in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and meet our co-founders/team

ABOUT US

WeTravel (www.wetravel.com) is an online fintech payment platform that transforms travel companies’ finances, communication, and marketing from a lot of manual paperwork to digital. We are a very well funded VC-backed company, bringing together a diverse and highly motivated team.

Read about us on TechCrunch, Huffington Post, Yoga + Life, Financial Times (FT), Skift, Lonely Planet, etc:

https://resources.wetravel.com...