About The Plug The Plug is India's Business School for Creative Professionals. We believe creativity alone is no longer enough — the designers, filmmakers, architects, and marketers who will lead the next decade need to understand business, strategy, marketing, sales, AI, leadership, entrepreneurship, and venture building, not as electives, but as core literacy. We are building the institution that teaches all of it, live, to the people who need it most: creative professionals learning to build careers, brands, and businesses of their own.

We are early. This internship is an invitation to help build that institution from its foundation, not to support one that already exists. Every process, partnership, and campaign you touch in the next three months will still be shaping The Plug long after this internship ends — that is the part most internships cannot offer, and the part we think matters most.

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who wants to understand how businesses actually grow — not in theory, but by doing the work. This role suits someone who enjoys talking to people, solving problems, and building relationships more than sitting quietly behind a screen.

You should be curious, ambitious, self-driven, and highly organised — comfortable communicating with strangers, genuinely interested in startups, marketing, and business, excited about education, and willing to learn AI tools quickly. Students and fresh graduates are encouraged to apply. No prior experience is required. Attitude matters more than experience.

Your Role — Job Areas & Key Responsibilities

You will work directly with the founders, not inside a hierarchy. This is not administrative work — it is building work, spanning five areas that together make up how an institution like this actually grows.

Business Development

Research colleges, institutes, and creative communities across India

Identify and build institutional partnerships

Reach out to institutes for collaborations

Maintain partnership databases

Support expansion into recent cities and campuses





Sales & Admissions

Speak with prospective students and qualify leads

Schedule and support admissions calls and counselling sessions

Follow up with applicants and maintain the CRM

Track the admissions pipeline

Help convert genuine interest into enrolled students

Marketing

Support execution of LinkedIn and Instagram campaigns

Conduct competitor research

Build and grow online communities

Collect student testimonials

Support content and email marketing

Events & Masterclasses

Help organise live online masterclasses

Coordinate speaker logistics and manage registrations

Support live Q&A; sessions and participant communication

Create attendance reports and coordinate follow-ups

Help promote masterclasses across colleges and creative communities

Partnerships

Reach out to design colleges, film schools, architecture and fashion institutes, photography schools, marketing institutes, startup communities, incubators, creative agencies, and student clubs

Build relationships that lead to workshops, guest sessions, career talks, masterclasses, and collaborative events

What You'll Learn — Learning Outcomes

This internship is built to give you exposure classrooms rarely offer:

Business development and partnership building

Sales, admissions, and CRM management

Marketing, brand building, and community building

Growth strategy and startup operations

Event management and speaker coordination

Customer journey design

Founder-led decision-making

Practical AI tools for business

All of it inside a real, early-stage institution — not a simulation of one.

Who Should Apply

This role suits MBA aspirants, marketing and business students, designers, architects,



filmmakers, creators, entrepreneurs, and final-year students — anyone who wants a career in business development, sales, marketing, partnerships, or entrepreneurship, and is willing to start by doing the work.

What Makes This Different

You will work directly with founders and sit in on strategic discussions, not observe from the outside. You will build real partnerships and speak with real students, not shadow someone else doing it. You will help organise educational events and contribute to marketing campaigns that actually ship. Along the way, you will see, up close, how a premium education brand gets built — and leave with a portfolio of real work to show for it.

What We Offer

This internship is unpaid. In exchange, we offer direct mentorship from the founders, real business experience, a Certificate of Internship, a performance-based Letter of Recommendation, the possibility of a Pre-Placement Offer, and access to a growing network of founders and industry leaders. More than anything, we offer the chance to help build an institution from the ground up — a kind of exposure that is difficult to find anywhere else at this stage of a career.

Ideal Candidate

Someone who loves talking to people, is proactive and organised, learns quickly, thinks independently, communicates clearly, is comfortable with AI tools (or eager to learn), and wants a real foothold in business development, sales, marketing, partnerships, or entrepreneurship.

How to Apply

Send us your resume, your LinkedIn profile, and a short note — under 300 words — on why you want to help build The Plug. A portfolio, past projects, or other social profiles are welcome, but optional.

We are not looking for someone to fill a role. We are looking for someone to help build one of India's most ambitious education institutions from its earliest days, and grow alongside it.

If that sounds like the kind of work you have been waiting for a real reason to do, we would like to hear from you.

📌 Business Development , Sales And Manager Intern (Mumbai)
🏢 The Plug School | Business School for Creatives
📍 Mumbai