Internship: Innovation & Entrepreneurship ()

Internship: Innovation & Entrepreneurship

At In Five Years, we see talent acquisition as the foundation of every successful company. And in tech scale-ups, the very first team often determines whether growth takes off or stalls.

That’s why we help ambitious scale-ups find entrepreneurial talent in engineering, product, and go-to-market roles. Beyond recruitment, we also build our own complementary digital products in the HR space to push the industry forward.

We’re now looking for an Innovation & Entrepreneurship Intern who’s eager to learn the ins and outs of running an entrepreneurial talent agency. This role is a mix of business development, marketing, recruitment support, and process optimization, designed for someone who wants to combine hands-on execution with exposure to the strategic side of building a company.

What you’ll work on

Business development

• Research and map out interesting startups, scale-ups, and VC-backed companies across BeNeLux.
• Identify potential leads, partnerships, and communities where we can add value.
• Experiment with different outreach approaches (LinkedIn, email, events) to initiate first conversations.
• Support in tracking and following up with prospects to help us grow our client base.
• Contribute to the business development of our first spin-off, Granger.phd, a global job platform connecting scientific companies with PhD talent eager to tackle complex challenges.

Marketing & Content

• Help shape our voice towards scale-ups and entrepreneurial talent.
• Create and experiment with different types of content: from LinkedIn posts to short articles, thought pieces, and portfolio examples.
• Research and share insights on topics valuable towards the entrepreneurial ecosystem in BeNeLux.
• Think creatively about how we can position In Five Years more strongly within the tech ecosystem.

Recruitment Support

• Assist in scouting entrepreneurial candidates for engineering, product, and GTM roles.
• Explore new ways to identify high-potential talent (e.g. via communities, events, or niche platforms).
• Support in improving the candidate journey, from first outreach to helping them showcase their portfolio.
• Gain a behind-the-scenes look at how scale-ups hire, what they look for, and how to match talent with opportunities.

Process Optimization

• Keep our CRM up to date with uniform data fields.
• Explore and test new tools to professionalize our internal workflows with, incorporating AI where we can.
• Spot inefficiencies and suggest improvements to make our work smarter and faster

What you’ll learn

• Sales coaching: how to approach prospects and build trust.
• Recruitment know-how: how to scout and engage with entrepreneurial talent for tech scale-ups.
• Entrepreneurial agency life: daily exposure to building a business alongside the founders.

You’ll work closely with Jeroen and Milan, with daily check-ins and clear responsibility for deliverables.

Who we’re looking for

• A high-potential profile: driven, entrepreneurial, and eager to learn by doing, passionate about entrepreneurship and scalable businesses.
• Strong communicator (Dutch is required)
• Comfortable reaching out to people (sales/recruitment mindset).
• Organized and curious about startups, scale-ups, and venture capital.
• Someone with the ambition to one day build their own company, eager to learn what it takes to go from early days to growth.
• Inspired by our name In Five Years: you’re curious about where you could be in five years yourself, and see this internship as a stepping stone in your entrepreneurial journey.

Practical details

• Location: Hybrid (Antwerp-based, but remote possible for most tasks).
• Compensation: This is an unpaid internship, but with direct exposure to client acquisition, sales, and recruitment in the scale-up ecosystem.

Why join?

This is a unique opportunity to get hands-on experience in business development, recruitment, and entrepreneurship inside a young and fast-moving agency. Your work will directly contribute to new client leads, stronger internal processes & validating new value propositions and shipping them to market.