Strategic Partnerships & Municipal Market Research Intern | PropTech / FinTech (Unpaid)

KeyPath is building an integrated PropTech/FinTech platform that can connect with the systems landlords and real estate operators already use rather than requiring customers to replace their existing technology.
KeyPath's integration strategy includes property management systems, resident-experience platforms, construction systems, economic data sources, and municipal/compliance platforms.

KeyPath is also developing a community stakeholder offering intended to help municipalities and housing organizations understand housing outcomes, resident retention, developer commitments, local hiring, vendor participation, and economic impact.

Position Overview

KeyPath is seeking a Strategic Partnerships & Municipal Market Research Intern to help build the commercial and research infrastructure behind the company's technology partnerships and municipal strategy.

This intern will work at the intersection of business development, technology partnerships, PropTech, housing policy, and economic development.

The engineering team is building integrations. Your job will focus on the business side of making those integrations and partnerships possible.

Responsibilities
Technology & Integration Partnerships
Research potential technology and API partners.
Identify developer programs, partnership programs, certification requirements, and API access procedures.
Research platforms such as property management systems, resident platforms, construction platforms, and public-data providers.
Identify relevant partnership and business-development contacts.
Maintain KeyPath's integration partnership database.
Track partnership applications, access status, follow-ups, and next steps.
Research sandbox availability, API access requirements, potential fees, and customer authorization requirements.
Prepare internal partnership briefs before meetings.
Help draft partnership outreach materials.
Support preparation for meetings with technology companies and prospective integration partners.
KeyPath's current integration architecture is intentionally designed so that external systems remain systems of record while KeyPath functions as the participation, rewards, analytics, agreement, and compliance layer.
Municipal & Housing Market Research
Research municipalities, housing authorities, land banks, economic development agencies, and public-private housing initiatives.
Analyze local housing conditions and rental markets.
Research renter populations, vacancy, housing affordability, homeownership, development activity, and relevant public programs.
Identify municipalities that may be strong candidates for future KeyPath pilots.
Research municipal procurement and innovation programs.
Analyze local hiring, workforce-development, and vendor-participation programs.
Help identify public datasets relevant to KeyPath's community stakeholder platform.
Prepare municipal market briefs and opportunity profiles.
Support research for meetings with government and community stakeholders.
Example Semester Projects
The intern may build:
Technology Partnership Tracker
Platform
Strategic relevance
API availability
Partner program
Access requirements
Contact
Status
Next action
Engineering dependency
Municipal Opportunity Database
City
Population
Rental households
Housing affordability
Housing authority
Land bank
Major housing initiatives
Relevant development programs
Potential KeyPath use case
Key decision-makers
Pilot attractiveness
Ideal Candidate
We are particularly interested in students studying:
Business
Economics
Public Policy
Government
Real Estate
Urban Planning
Finance
International Political Economy
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Strong candidates should be excellent researchers, highly organized, professionally comfortable communicating with external organizations, and interested in how technology interacts with real estate and public policy.
What You Will Gain
Direct exposure to startup partnership development.
Experience researching and engaging PropTech and technology companies.
Understanding of API partnerships and platform ecosystems from the business side.
Exposure to housing policy, economic development, municipalities, and public-private partnerships.
Business-development research experience.
Direct interaction with company leadership and technical team members.
Compensation
This is an unpaid internship. Students may pursue academic credit through their university where permitted and applicable.