Market Research Intern

Partnology — Biotech Executive Search & Venture Support Intern

Location: San Diego-based

Type: Internship, part-time

Industry: Biotechnology, Executive Search, Venture Capital, Company Creation

Reports to: Partnology Leadership Team

This is an ideal role for a scientifically curious, organized, and entrepreneurial intern who wants to understand how biotech companies are built from the inside — not just the science, but the people, investors, systems, and strategy required to turn breakthrough ideas into high-performing companies.

Partnology is a boutique executive search and investment firm focused on building and supporting early-stage therapeutics companies. We work closely with biotech founders, CEOs, investors, and venture-backed companies to identify world-class leadership talent, support company creation, and provide market intelligence across the biotech ecosystem.

Our work sits at the intersection of executive search, venture capital, biotech strategy, and company building. We are looking for an intern who is curious, organized, intellectually sharp, and excited to learn how early-stage biotech companies are built.

The Partnology Intern will support a range of research, marketing, systems, and operational projects across the firm. This is a great opportunity for someone interested in biotechnology, venture capital, startups, executive search, AI-enabled workflows, and strategic business development.

A scientific background is strongly preferred, especially in biology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, neuroscience, immunology, oncology, chemistry, bioengineering, or a related life sciences field. The ideal candidate will be comfortable reading about biotech companies, understanding therapeutic areas and modalities, and turning complex information into clear, useful insights.

Support deeper research on early-stage and venture-backed biotech companies, including:

• Cataloging companies by therapeutic area, modality, stage of development, technology platform, and lead programs
• Tracking emerging biotech companies, company launches, financings, leadership changes, and major scientific milestones
• Supporting business development research by identifying companies that may be relevant for future executive search, advisory, or investment relationships

Help Partnology strengthen its voice and visibility with biotech CEOs, founders, executives, and venture capital partners by supporting:

• Drafting and organizing Linked In content for company and leadership profiles
• Turning internal insights, market research, and biotech trends into short-form social media posts
• Helping identify timely topics for thought leadership, including company launches, financing trends, executive movement, and leadership themes
• Organizing content calendars and tracking post performance
• Assisting with newsletter or market update drafts
• Supporting brand consistency across social media, website content, and outbound communications

Support the team in using modern AI and publicly available tools to improve speed, quality, and organization across internal workflows, including:

• Researching and testing publicly available AI tools that could improve research, marketing, scheduling, CRM hygiene, candidate mapping, or workflow automation
• Helping document repeatable internal processes and improve standard operating procedures
• Assisting with Salesforce data hygiene, tagging, list building, and structured research inputs
• Supporting the creation of templates, checklists, prompts, and workflows that help the team work more efficiently
• Helping identify repetitive tasks that could be improved through automation or AI-enabled systems
• Organizing internal knowledge bases, research folders, candidate/company lists, and project trackers
• Supporting light data entry, database updates, and quality checks across internal systems

The ideal candidate is:

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in biology, biotechnology, chemistry, bioengineering, neuroscience, pharmacology,…