Business Development Intern, Home Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Analyze the local service-provider landscape by category or region.

• Create scoring frameworks to evaluate opportunities and prioritize merchant categories or areas.

• Develop target lists and perform self-initiated outreach to local business proprietors.

• Present Nearby.ai’s value proposition and manage objections effectively.

• Establish and maintain a CRM or spreadsheet for tracking purposes.

• Experiment with outreach channels, messaging, and timing utilizing data analysis.

• Evaluate outreach and conversion metrics.

• Convert merchant feedback into organized product and onboarding insights.

• Construct business cases that quantify anticipated partners signed and revenue implications.

• Compose outreach scripts, pitch decks, and partnership proposals.

• Lead onboarding discussions until closure.

• Suggest improvements for the onboarding process.

• Provide weekly reports on outreach metrics, pipeline status, insights, and upcoming actions.

• Deliver market analysis, outcomes, and a merchant-acquisition strategy to the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Currently enrolled in an MBA or a comparable graduate business program.

• Ideally possess prior experience in consulting, sales, business development, or a startup environment.

• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities.

• Proficient in working with spreadsheets and data.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Confident in phone communication and negotiating directly with small-business owners.

• High tolerance for ambiguity and the ability to handle rejection.

• Comfortable with self-directed, hands-on work in a 0-to-1 situation.

• Availability for an internship of 20–40 hours per week for a duration of 3–6 months.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid internship.

• Possibility of transitioning to a full-time position based on performance.

• Complete ownership of a merchant-acquisition initiative.

• Gain experience in the entire partnership development cycle at an early-stage company.

• Create a portfolio showcasing quantified business impacts.