Full-time paid 10-month internship in Amsterdam from September '26
Who are we?
Sherlocked is the award-winning experience design studio behind a wide range of both live and online adventures.
Our mission: to make the world more magical.
We’re looking for an events intern to work alongside our creative team starting around September (start date flexible) focusing on:
- Our new escape game for large groups in Amsterdam
- Customer support for our Amsterdam escape rooms, including our soon opening Sherlock Holmes adventure
- Custom event games on location
You'll be working under the guidance of one of our secret weapons: Ella who prior taking over our operations at Sherlocked, ran her own legendary events studio. She's also one of the loveliest people we know (she didn't write this, I promise) and I can almost guarantee you'll feel very lucky as her intern.
A bit more about what you'll be focusing on:
1. Large group games
We frequently host events at our headquarters for the ‘mysterious travel chest game' Time Crimes:
As an events intern you will communicate with both customers and game hosts, ensuring the location is prepared and taking care of hospitality on the premises.
In September we're also launching our successor to Time Crimes, a maritime/pirate themed game called Parlay, for which you'd become the bridge between customer experience and our design team.
2. Customer Support
Personalised editions of our adventures for special occasions (ie. for birthdays and engagements)
3. Custom Event games
We’re often invited to design custom event-based games for clients, which poses a whole recent set of challenges that will require you at your sharpest to navigate. The video below gives a peek into our process for the creation of The Box Game:
3. Running & Improving our Escape Rooms
You'll be trained to be able to run any of our 3 escape rooms, both for the purpose of improving them, as well as being able to run them in case someone on the team falls ill. You'll use your knowledge of hospitality to improve our customers' experience, from our website, customer service, to the on-location experience and beyond.
A glimpse from some of our productions:
Are you:
- Self-determined. You don’t wait for people to give you tasks, you invent your own and take initiative. You ask for help where needed.
- Excited about event management. Organisation comes naturally to you, you have a ‘hands-on’ mentality and you’re excited to assist in coordinating all aspects of event planning.
- Able to iterate. We are a design-led organisation and we often go through multiple versions to get things right, and that's an environment you thrive in.
- Eager to learn. The tricks of the trade are constantly changing, and you are eager to develop your skills.
What do we offer?
- A fun internship and rich variety of projects
- €450 internship compensation per month, plus travel cost
- A team of creative, enthusiastic and driven colleagues
- Many opt-in team events like escape rooms (live and online), game nights and other surprise experiences
- A great workplace in the heart of Amsterdam, combined with the freedom to work remotely.
Our HQ is located in a former library from 1609 in the heart of town For international students: we can try to help with housing, as this can be quite challenging in Amsterdam (no guarantees of course, this remains your responsibility)
Application deadline: we'll be looking at applications as they come in, so if you want to apply, then...