Inspire Projects - Phase 9
This project is to support the phases of the Inspire partnership.
Culture Analysis for Newly Forming Team
Our Business Consultant team is made up for 8 team members, 5 of which are relatively new. We would like students to conduct a group-based consultation for our team, study our organization, identify strengths and challenges, analyze the cause(s) of the strengths/challenges, and provide recommendations that will help our team better function and collaborate together. Our goal is to be a team that has high moral and motivation and that produces strong results due to a strong cultural foundation.
Inspire Projects - Phase 8
This project is to support the phases of the Inspire partnership.
Inspire Projects - Phase 7
This project is to support the phases of the Inspire partnership.
Inspire Projects - Phase 6
This project is to support the phases of the Inspire partnership.
Inspire Projects - Phase 5
This project is to support the phases of the Inspire partnership.
Inspire Projects - Phase 4
This project is to support the phases of the Inspire partnership.
Inspire Projects - Phase 3
This project is to support the phases of the Inspire partnership.
Inspire Projects - Phase 2
This project is to support the phases of the Inspire partnership.
Cross-Collaborative Projects (6)
Riipen is looking for 10+ talented “virtual” student interns and co-ops in a variety of positions to help support our functional areas (primarily, sales, marketing and client success but also strategy and people). These positions are expected to run from May.. Interns will work directly with our functional teams in order to support and implement strategies, including, but not limited to, sales strategy, sales enablement, demand generation, and client support to help Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment. They will be providing critical support to enabling Riipen to reach wider audiences and support new clients. In addition to learning about a specific functional area, interns will gain a broad understanding of operations at a tech scale up - the behind the scenes view. The three main functional areas we are looking to support are:
Cross-Collaborative Projects (5)
Riipen is looking for 10+ talented “virtual” student interns and co-ops in a variety of positions to help support our functional areas (primarily, sales, marketing and client success but also strategy and people). These positions are expected to run from May.. Interns will work directly with our functional teams in order to support and implement strategies, including, but not limited to, sales strategy, sales enablement, demand generation, and client support to help Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment. They will be providing critical support to enabling Riipen to reach wider audiences and support new clients. In addition to learning about a specific functional area, interns will gain a broad understanding of operations at a tech scale up - the behind the scenes view. The three main functional areas we are looking to support are:
Cross-Collaborative Projects (4)
Riipen is looking for 10+ talented “virtual” student interns and co-ops in a variety of positions to help support our functional areas (primarily, sales, marketing and client success but also strategy and people). These positions are expected to run from May.. Interns will work directly with our functional teams in order to support and implement strategies, including, but not limited to, sales strategy, sales enablement, demand generation, and client support to help Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment. They will be providing critical support to enabling Riipen to reach wider audiences and support new clients. In addition to learning about a specific functional area, interns will gain a broad understanding of operations at a tech scale up - the behind the scenes view. The three main functional areas we are looking to support are:
Cross-Collaborative Projects (3)
Riipen is looking for 10+ talented “virtual” student interns and co-ops in a variety of positions to help support our functional areas (primarily, sales, marketing and client success but also strategy and people). These positions are expected to run from May.. Interns will work directly with our functional teams in order to support and implement strategies, including, but not limited to, sales strategy, sales enablement, demand generation, and client support to help Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment. They will be providing critical support to enabling Riipen to reach wider audiences and support new clients. In addition to learning about a specific functional area, interns will gain a broad understanding of operations at a tech scale up - the behind the scenes view. The three main functional areas we are looking to support are:
Cross-Collaborative Projects (2)
Riipen is looking for 10+ talented “virtual” student interns and co-ops in a variety of positions to help support our functional areas (primarily, sales, marketing and client success but also strategy and people). These positions are expected to run from May.. Interns will work directly with our functional teams in order to support and implement strategies, including, but not limited to, sales strategy, sales enablement, demand generation, and client support to help Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment. They will be providing critical support to enabling Riipen to reach wider audiences and support new clients. In addition to learning about a specific functional area, interns will gain a broad understanding of operations at a tech scale up - the behind the scenes view. The three main functional areas we are looking to support are:
Cross-Collaborative Projects (1)
Riipen is looking for 10+ talented “virtual” student interns and co-ops in a variety of positions to help support our functional areas (primarily, sales, marketing and client success but also strategy and people). These positions are expected to run from May.. Interns will work directly with our functional teams in order to support and implement strategies, including, but not limited to, sales strategy, sales enablement, demand generation, and client support to help Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment. They will be providing critical support to enabling Riipen to reach wider audiences and support new clients. In addition to learning about a specific functional area, interns will gain a broad understanding of operations at a tech scale up - the behind the scenes view. The three main functional areas we are looking to support are:
User Research & UX Analysis
We would like insights on how user-friendly our platform is for students. We believe the best way to understand our platform’s usability is through studying the User Experience and User Interface. We would like students to evaluate the effectiveness and usability of our platform and identify ways to improve the user journey and increase user satisfaction. We are particularly interested in the following areas: Team page (main area of focus) We are also happy to receive feedback and suggestions for any other area of the platform the students may have.
Mobile App UI / UX Design & Prototype
Our company would like to explore designing a prototype for a native mobile application version of the Riipen platform ( app.riipen.com ). This prototype will need to cover the following basic user workflows: Signing up Logging in General navigation across the application Browsing content Chat Matchmaking Unique challenges in building a Riipen mobile application: Riipen has 3 different user type Riipen has a full scale messaging, meeting, and video chat system Riipen has heavily customized 'request' workflows for educators and employers Riipen has unique project management workflows for students
Marketing Strategy Plan
We want students to help us build a marketing strategy plan to grow and engage our target market: {replace this text with description of target market} . We’d like to know how we can maximize use of different channels and get recommendations to improve our messaging. The main questions we’d like students to help us answer are the following: How do students currently perceive our brand and marketing, based on publicly available information about our company? What channels should we utilize for promotion, including ones we are not currently using? What budget is appropriate for advertising, given our goals? How could our messaging be updated to better explain our value proposition? {Add additional points as needed. Delete this bullet before publishing.}
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Influencer Marketing Opportunity
Number of positions available: 1 We’d like to provide a student with an opportunity to Level Up their experience in the field of Influencer Marketing . The role of 80 hours will consist of focusing and outreaching to influencers to market and sell products. We’d be looking for you to outreach to social media influencers that focus in areas of health and wellness, and those who like to promote products they’re interested in. Each influencer should have 1000+ more followers. The role of 80 hours will consist of: 10 hours - Crafting your own original written pitch of why influencers should work with us to sell and market products. Example topics to cover: What makes us unique and interesting? What kind of brands do we work with? What makes our e-commerce platform different from others? Why should influencers consider selling with us? How much can they earn? During your initial 10 hours you will book a call with a member of the leadership team to learn about the company and ask questions. The balance 70 hours - You will be pitching your story to social media influencers with the aim to get coverage. You’ll be tasked to pitch to influencers on a select medium. Examples mediums: facebook, instagram, tiktok, youtube. You will be asked to keep a google spreadsheet of all influencers you’ve reached out to for record keeping purposes, and cases where they may follow up after your project ends. Success will be realized if an influencer agrees to accepting your request to work with us to market and sell products.
Sales Team - Performance Optimization
We are looking for students to help us identify areas of improvement for our teams performance and productivity. We are a team of 8 Business Consultant working at Riipen to recruit and onboard industry partners. Our team members perform the same role and collaborate together on over all strategies. We would like a team of students to review our processes and operations to identify areas where we can increase productivity, decrease service times, and help us improve individual and team performance metrics. Project tasks may include but are not limited to: Assessment and potential diagnoses Presenting possible solutions A recommendation with action plan Goals: Increasing production rates Decreasing service times Improving individual performance metrics Improving team performance metrics You will have access to two business consultants as the main contacts as well as oversight into the whole team.
Data Audit Intern
As a Riipen Data Auditor , you will work with the Employer Partnerships team helping Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment. Your goal will be to ensure accurate data reporting so that we can serve our customers better. Responsibilities: Move sales deals to their appropriate stages Apply attention to detail to notice and fill in missing information Enrich data categories for important projects Qualifications: Excitement to learn tools such as Tableau and HubSpot Sense of ownership and responsibility over ensuring clean data Strong attention to detail Innovative mindset; finding easier ways of doing things is a plus Commitment : 20 hours a week over the 4-week period. Start date : May 5 * Number of individual students required: 1 student * For the candidates that would like to continue working for Riipen and develop further skills, we can provide additional Level Up projects upon successful completion of this project
Process Evaluation and Recommendations: Phase 1
Phase 1: Process Mapping and Evaluation We want to simplify our processes to make our business model more efficient. The focus of this project should be on clearly identifying the root problems that are increasing time and cost allocations across our operations and suggesting actionable solutions.
Data Audit Intern
As a Riipen Data Auditor , you will work with the Employer Partnerships team helping Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment. Your goal will be to ensure accurate data reporting so that we can serve our customers better. Responsibilities: Move sales deals to their appropriate stages Apply attention to detail to notice and fill in missing information Enrich data categories for important projects Qualifications: Excitement to learn tools such as Tableau and HubSpot Sense of ownership and responsibility over ensuring clean data Strong attention to detail Innovative mindset; finding easier ways of doing things is a plus Commitment : 20 hours a week over the 4-week period. Start date : May 5 * Number of individual students required: 1 student * For the candidates that would like to continue working for Riipen and develop further skills, we can provide additional Level Up projects upon successful completion of this project
B2B Channel Partnerships Strategy 🚀
Our growth marketing team has an exciting challenge that we'd love for entrepreneurial minds to help tackle! We're looking to build a scalable B2B channel partnership strategy that will enable us to work closely with business associations and non-profits who align with our mission and resonate with the idea of recommending Riipen to its networks of organizations. The creation of the strategy would combine both sales and marketing elements of understanding our market, creating ideal target personas and developing high-impact, low-cost tactics that our team can execute including themes and messaging. The strategy development will require individuals to: Become familiar with our organization, goals and offerings in order to identify what type of business associations are worth targeting Create 1-2 ideal target personas that identify their pain points, value propositions, and themes of communication Develop a top of funnel strategy to build brand awareness and drive new partnerships along with possible "partnership packages" that can be offered Identify KPIs to measure success of the marketing strategy The objectives/end-goals would include: Create a self-sufficient channel partnership ecosystem Motivate and engage channel partners to create more value for themselves and customers Map the interconnectedness of organizations to understand how they can support each other Description of ideal persona(s) that can be applied to top of funnel strategies to create new leads, and awareness Main point of contact: Natalia, Partnerships Development Lead Modes of communication: Riipen platform, Email or Slack (depending on how many students)
Part-Time Trainer Intern
As a Riipen Trainer Intern , you will work with the Employer Partnerships team helping Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment. Your goal will be to train and lead a team of outreach interns. Responsibilities: Organize training sessions on a cold call, email, and Riipen products. Host one-on-one sessions with interns. Provide feedback on the interns’ work and calls. Commitment : 20 hours a week over the 4-week period. * Number of individual students required: 3 students * Number of students required to work in a team: N/A * For the candidates that would like to continue working for Riipen and develop further skills, we can provide additional Level Up projects upon successful completion of this project. * Please note that in order to qualify for this role, you'll need to complete the Outreach and Consultant roles first. If you're interested, please apply for those roles first.
Part-Time Consultant Intern
As a Riipen Consultant Intern , you will work with the Employer Partnerships team helping Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment. Your goal will be to conduct discovery calls and educate prospective companies and non-profits about our platform to connect with educational institutions and students on virtual projects and internships. You’ll provide critical support enabling Riipen to reach wider audiences. In addition to learning and executing sales, you will gain a broad understanding of operations at a tech startup and using our tech stack. Tools used will include but are not limited to Hubspot CRM, Slack, and the Google suite. You will develop both qualitative and technical skills. Responsibilities: Execute sales strategies by conducting innovative and team-directed outreach Conduct discovery conversations Accurately and consistently record activity and contact information in HubSpot (Riipen’s CRM) Commitment : 20 hours a week over the 4-week period. Start date : June. * Number of individual students required: up to 10 students. * Number of students required to work in a team: N/A. * For the candidates that would like to continue working for Riipen and develop further skills, we can provide additional Level Up projects upon successful completion of this project. * Please note that this is a consecutive role for the students that have completed the Part-Time Outreach Intern role. If you’re interested, please apply for the outreach role first.
Intern Program - Strategy Development
Project Scope You will be responsible for providing materials that the Industry Sales Interns can use to help support them excel during their internship. Your goal is to create resources such as additional trackers, and guidebooks that can be utilized by the incoming interns. You will analyze what the different needs of the Industry Team is and provide materials to support their success. You will be able to develop critical thinking skills by analyzing what the intern cohort needs are in order to succeed, and by downscaling the information to the management team and the next cohort of interns. Responsibilities Creation of new trackers such as a Bonus Tracker and other additional trackers Conduct surveys and collect feedback from the interns Propose recommendations for the Industry Intern team based off of the feedback obtained from the interns Commitment 20 hours a week over a period of 4 weeks.
Project Templates Revision & Development
Project Scope You will be responsible for the creation of different project templates that can be used by the companies on the platform. Before you create the project templates you will conduct research on what the different needs of every industry is and create templates based on your research. Your goal is to create project templates that are fairly accurate to what different industries need. You will be able to expand on your written communication skills by developing project templates, and also expand on your research and analytical skills through assessing what type of projects and industries are in demand. Responsibilities Research and analyze the demands and needs of the main industries. Creation of different project templates that can be utilized by the companies on the platform Commitment 20 hours a week over a period of 4 weeks.
Intern Resources Development
Project Scope You will be responsible for the creation of different tools that the Industry Sales Interns can use throughout their internship. Your goal will be to determine what different needs the interns may have and implement different intern projects to help support the interns throughout their internship. You will be responsible for the creation of training materials, intern engagement projects, and documentation for the Industry Sales Interns. By creating a plan to support interns during their term at Riipen, you will be able to develop clear communication skills through delivering clear and concise written materials and will also be able to expand on your planning skills. Responsibilities Creation and support of any training materials utilized by the Industry Sales Interns. Creation of Intern engagement programs, such as a Buddy Program and Social Committee Support with documentation and project materials used by the Industry Sales Interns Guidebook development for the Industry Sales Interns Commitment 20 hours a week over a period of 4 weeks.