Marketing & Research Intern at RankmyAI

RankmyAI is an independent research platform that tracks more than 75,000 AI tools and companies worldwide. It is an initiative of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), run by the Centre for Marketing Innovation and the Centre of Expertise Applied AI. We rank tools on website traffic, investment and user reviews, with no paid placements.

As our work placement intern, you join a small team that keeps the platform running and growing. You check rankings before they go live, contribute to our research and help bring our findings to an international audience. What you work on is published, not filed away.

Type: work placement (meewerkstage) for students of Marketing (Commerciële Economie), Business Administration (Bedrijfskunde), Creative Business, International Business or a related programme
Location: hybrid, at our office on the HvA Business Campus in Amsterdam and from home
Duration: at least 3 months
Days: 4 to 5 days a week
Start date: by arrangement
Allowance: an internship allowance

What you will work on

Rankings. Most of our data is collected automatically. Before a ranking goes live, you check it by hand, correct what is wrong and add what is missing.
The platform. You help improve RankmyAI itself: spotting tools in the wrong category, finding new tools for the database and testing new features before our users see them.
Research. You contribute to our own studies and to research commissioned by organisations: deep dives, AI ecosystem maps and rankings built around their own questions. Recent work includes rankings for the provinces of Groningen and Zuid-Holland, research on AI in Latin America for the United Nations, and country reports produced with universities in Denmark and Norway.
Content marketing. You turn rankings and research into content for LinkedIn, X, our monthly newsletter, the website and presentations.
International reach. How do we involve tool makers, media, professional associations and communities around the world? You think this through with us and help carry it out.

If you want to go further, you can take on a research area of your own. The previous intern in this role mapped military and defence AI. The result was twelve new rankings and The Military AI Landscape in 2026, an analysis of 519 companies he co-wrote with our CEO and CTO.

Who we are looking for

You study Marketing (Commerciële Economie), Business Administration (Bedrijfskunde), Creative Business, International Business or a related programme, and are about to start your work placement
You are curious about AI, and sceptical of claims you cannot check
You take initiative, and you ask for help when you get stuck
You write clearly and have a good command of both Dutch and English

What you get

Real work that goes live: rankings, research and content with an audience
Supervision from the founding team: Jesse Weltevreden (lector Digital Commerce) on research, David Kakanis (CTO) on data and Wilco Verdoold (CMO and Marketing lecturer at HvA) on marketing
A small team where your view counts. You will often be asked what you think and how something could be done better.
Room for your own ideas, and the chance to carry them out
Contact with our research partners and clients, in the Netherlands and abroad
An internship allowance

What our interns say

"I am given a lot of independence and freedom in my work, and I like that the team is small because it makes it easy to communicate and quickly feel part of it."
Liselot Aartsen, Marketing student at HvA and intern in business development

"Instead of a top-down hierarchy, there's a real culture of collaboration where even as an intern, you're encouraged to jump in, share your perspective, and build things together."
Jule Dannecker, Erasmus+ intern researching the German AI market

How to apply

Send your CV and a short motivation (one page at most) to Wilco Verdoold at [email protected]. In your motivation, pick one ranking on rankmyai.com and tell us what you would improve first, and why.

Questions about the placement are welcome at the same address.