Growth & Marketing
Content, social media, growth strategy, analytics, brand and customer acquisition.
Early-career recruiting
Where early talent meets early-stage companies.
Twin Lanterns connects ambitious college students with startups looking for capable, motivated talent. We handle the sourcing and screening so founders can focus on building.
Built for early-stage companies. Built for early-career talent.
- Growth & Marketing
- Sales & Business Development
- Operations
- Finance & Research
- Design
- Customer Success
Great startups need talent. Great students need a starting point.
For startups
Early-stage teams have more work than people and rarely have time to sort through hundreds of applications.
Twin Lanterns helps founders access ambitious emerging talent without running the entire recruiting process themselves.
For students
Students are constantly told they need experience to get experience.
Twin Lanterns helps talented students access startups where they can contribute meaningful work, learn quickly, and build legitimate professional experience.
How it works — startups
Tell us what you need. We'll find who fits.
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Tell us what you're building
Submit the role, responsibilities, skills, hours, compensation, and timeline.
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We source
Twin Lanterns recruits candidates through its student network and targeted campus outreach.
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We screen
We review candidates and conduct initial screening before they reach your team.
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Meet your shortlist
Receive a curated group of candidates matched to your needs. Interview the people you want and make the final hiring decision.
How it works — students
Your first opportunity shouldn't require five years of experience.
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Join the network
Create your Twin Lanterns candidate profile once.
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Tell us where you want to grow
Share your skills, interests, availability, and the type of startup work you want.
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Get matched
When an opportunity aligns with your profile, Twin Lanterns can consider you for the role.
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Build real experience
Interview directly with startups and work on projects that matter.
Talent categories
The roles we recruit for.
Startup work rarely fits a neat job description. These are the areas where early-career talent tends to make the fastest impact.
Sales & Business Development
Lead generation, outreach, partnerships, market development and CRM.
Operations
Process improvement, project coordination, business operations and internal systems.
Finance & Research
Financial analysis, market research, competitive analysis and strategy.
Design
Graphic design, product design, content design and brand support.
Customer Success
Customer onboarding, support, research and relationship management.
For founders
Spend less time recruiting. More time building.
Twin Lanterns runs the top of the funnel — sourcing, screening and shortlisting — so your team only spends time on candidates worth interviewing.
- Curated candidate shortlists
- College and early-career specialization
- Initial candidate screening
- Flexible startup-oriented roles
- Founder-friendly process
- No unnecessary recruiting bureaucracy
For students
Get closer to the work.
Startup internships put you next to the people making decisions. Instead of a narrow slice of a large process, you get exposure to real responsibilities, small teams, founders and projects that ship.
- Real startup experience
- Smaller teams
- Meaningful responsibility
- Exposure to founders and operators
- Resume-building projects
- Opportunities aligned with skills and interests
Join the founding Twin Lanterns network.
We're building our first network of ambitious students and early-stage companies. Founding members will help shape how Twin Lanterns connects emerging talent with emerging companies.