About YOU 关于你 You are curious to dive into business development, look for data patterns, and transforming these into real life insights and actions. Fairly creative too, you can identify incredible business opportunities where a layman would only have a blank stare. Introvert, you show off with deep thinking and precise statements. You’re a superhero, you are Hank Pym or Kitty Pryde from the Marvel universe. But you can be a pirate too. JOB PURPOSE 岗位目标: We’re building our Innovation Service team and we’re getting good at it. But to get us to our next stage, we need somebody who can find business opportunities where nobody has ventured yet. This internship isn’t a common one, your impact – and learnings, can seriously get you to your own next stage professionally. Ideally, you’re joining full time for 6 months as part of your university curriculum or a gap year. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES 岗位职责: - Support with building business development structures and systems - Identify growth opportunities for XNode and further develop them - Gather information and knowledge about clients in every way - Collect and conduct analyses on China innovation market trends and industry news JOB HOLDER’S COMPETENCIES & EXPERIENCE 能力和经验要求:  - Fluent in English, Mandarin is a plus - A willingness to rapidly learn from your colleagues and embrace continuous improvement - Well versed with PowerPoint and Excel - An interest in startups and B2B business - A strong sense of responsibility and ownership - An impeccable work ethic - A strong team orientation About US 关于我们 We are a team of ex-Roland Berger, Rocket Internet, EY, Techstars, Danone, Shanghai Tech University, and more, believing that innovation should be done differently in China. The world is not aware of this yet and that’s where we get really excited.  Combined, we have founded over 12 startups in 5 different countries – among which, a few are still standing and thriving. Our programs aim at helping startup founders, corporate innovators, and explorers to figure out how they can stay ahead of everybody else. Plus, we have fun in the process and learn a huge amount about what’s going in the Chinese startup ecosystem. Last time we counted, we had 12 nationalities with 40 team members.  We help startups, established companies, large enterprises create the new future. The business world is constantly changing and companies need to innovate and actively respond to unknown challenges with agile action and an open mind. At the same time, in line with growing cultural pluralism and economic globalization, cooperation and win-win models has become the primary strategy for realizing rapid corporate development. XNode starts from entrepreneurs, connects the resources of large enterprises, and brings together the power of investment institutions, academia, government innovation agencies, and accelerators/incubators to gradually build a diverse entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem.   XNode’s connected ecosystem helps companies to explore innovation opportunities and use proven methodologies and efficient organizational structures to enable innovation to grow businesses at lightning speed and generate high returns.