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Business Operations Internship

Uniplaces

Uniplaces

Operations
Remote
Posted on Feb 12, 2026

Job description

🌍 Uniplaces: Building a Trusted Global Brand for Students

At Uniplaces, we’re on a mission to empower student mobility by making it easier to find accommodation. Backed by top-tier investors like Atomico, Octopus Investments, Shilling Capital Partners, and Caixa Capital, we’re solving real-life challenges to help students worldwide — faster and better.

We are an internationally-minded company with a talented team and global ambitions. Our decisions are driven by our core values - Passion, Impact, Trust, and Team Spirit - which we strive to create an environment where everyone feels accountable and empowered to achiever their full potential.

About the International Team 🌐

Our International team serves as the driving force behind the company’s global expansion and strategic growth in new markets. This team identifies, evaluates, and establishes opportunities to introduce Uniplaces to untapped locations, ensuring the platform aligns with local needs and market conditions.

Join Us as a Business Development and Sales Intern! 👨‍💻

🎯 In this role, you will ensure our operations run smoothly behind the scenes by keeping partner and lead data accurate, organised, and consistently up to date across our tools and Google Sheets. You’ll cross-check information, identify inconsistencies, remove duplicates, and maintain clean, reliable dashboards that support smart decision-making.

🛠️ You’ll actively improve our internal processes by identifying gaps, documenting workflows, and proposing enhancements that bring greater clarity and efficiency to our operations. You’ll also support the rollout of new tools, automations, and systems that strengthen our overall structure.

📋 You’ll provide hands-on operational support to B2B supervisors, assisting with data management, reporting, materials organisation, and maintaining playbooks, templates, and shared folders to ensure seamless collaboration across teams.

🧩 You’ll deliver onboarding and refresher trainings to partners when needed, clearly explaining how our processes and tools work. You’ll help resolve operational questions, gather feedback, and share insights with the internal team to continuously improve partner experience.

🔗 You’ll act as a bridge between Sales, Partnerships, and Operations, ensuring information flows smoothly, processes are followed, and everyone has the structure and support they need to perform at their best.

This is not a sales role, it’s an operations-focused opportunity ideal for someone who loves organization, clarity, and helping teams work better in a fast-paced, international startup environment.

Job requirements

🌟 What makes the ideal candidate?

  • Language Skills: Fluency in English (spoken and written) is essential. Bonus points if you speak additional languages.

  • Organized & Detail-Oriented: Comfortable working with spreadsheets, dashboards, and internal tools while maintaining accuracy and data integrity.

  • Clear communicator: Who can explain processes and tools in a simple, structured, and easy-to-understand way.

  • Responsible, reliable, and proactive: Able to take ownership of tasks and follow through with consistency.

  • Driven to Grow: You’re motivated to develop expertise in business development and partnerships.

🧠 Mindset & Personality

  • Structured Thinker: You enjoy bringing order to messy processes and creating clarity where things feel scattered.

  • Support-Oriented: You genuinely like helping others succeed by providing clear guidance and practical support.

  • Detail-Driven: You naturally spot errors, inconsistencies, and inefficiencies, and take initiative to improve them.

  • Quality-Focused: You care about accuracy and doing things properly, not just quickly.

  • Adaptable & Collaborative: You feel comfortable working in a fast-paced, international startup environment where adaptability and collaboration are key.

🥇 Why You’ll Love This Job:

  • Learning Experience: Receive intensive training and valuable insights from senior team members to fuel your professional development.

  • Global Impact: Interact with people from all over the world and help students navigate one of the most important steps in their lives.

  • People-Driven Culture: We prioritise personal development, training, and helping you unlock your full potential.

  • World-Class Team: Access to a pool of talent that is hard to find. Your stakeholders and peers will come from world-class backgrounds and will have stepped up within Uniplaces. You’ll find mentors and role models.


📌 Important Details

  • This is a remote-based role.

  • Internship contract with a duration of 6 months.

  • Includes an internship grant + meal allowance.

  • Access to a co-working office in Lisbon, Monday to Friday.

  • Requires availability of 40H per week.

If you’re looking for a unique experience in a multicultural and international environment, with the opportunity to grow in your career and make a meaningful impact on the business, along with a supportive team that values your skills and offers pathways for development, then apply to become a Business Operations Intern today!

📩 Ready to Join Us? If this sounds like the opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply and let us know why you’re the perfect fit for this role.

📄 Please submit your CV in English.