Business Development Intern
Title: Business Development Intern
Location: Remote in these states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, KS, KY, ID, IL, IN, MA, MI, MN, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI
If you’re looking to be at the forefront of disrupting the ecommerce industry, wanting to make your mark and be continuously challenged to grow, your time has come.
ShipBob is recognized as #1 on Crain's 2020 “Fast 50” list of the fastest-growing companies in Chicago & Built In’s best mid-sized companies to work for in Chicago. With this growth, we are looking for top talent to help us reach the next level.
Role Description:
ShipBob’s 8 week internship program provides 40 hours/week business development training, offering professional development and hands-on sales experience to full-time college juniors and above. Interns will participate in community service, team building and company social activities.
Upon graduation, you’ll have the opportunity to interview for a potential full time position!
About Us:
ShipBob is a cloud-based logistics platform that partners with over 5,500+ e-commerce businesses to help make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality. We offer a full suite of fulfillment solutions for our merchants, including the ability to improve their transit times, shipping costs and deliver best in class experience to their customers. With an almost 100% accuracy rate in fulfilling orders and orders shipped on time, our merchants can count on us to deliver excellent service.
ShipBob’s growing fulfillment network is powered by our proprietary technology and acts as a back office for logistics, providing merchants with full visibility into orders, inventory levels in real time, and access to advanced analytics, over 27 integrations and data reporting.
As one of the fastest growing tech companies in Chicago with over $330M+ raised from blue-chip investors like Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, our goal is to continue to be the #1 best fulfillment technology in the industry. To help us meet this standard, we are scaling our entire team and looking for people who share our core values and have an entrepreneurial mindset.
About You:
At ShipBob, we’re looking to bring on board people who embody our core values:
- Be Mission-Driven. We want team members that are passionate about helping entrepreneurs improve their business, and bring that passion every day.
- Be Humble. We have ambitious goals, and our team members understand that success or failure depends on us working together and leaving egos at the door.
- Be Resilient. Logistics is a complicated business. So is software. We value team members that never give up and keep iterating until a problem is solved.
- Be a Creative Problem Solver. As a startup, we value smart, innovative solutions to complex problems. We fall in love with the problem, not our “favorite” solution.
What you’ll do:
- Become proficient in SalesForce.
- Outreach.
- Prospecting.
- Lead Generation/Qualifying Leads.
- Cold calling.
- Construct highly effective sales emails.
- Craft the perfect elevator pitch.
You’ll become proficient in:
- SalesForce.
- Outreach.
- Prospecting.
- Lead Generation/Qualifying Leads.
- Cold calling.
- Constructing highly effective sales emails.
- Crafting the perfect elevator pitch.
What you’ll bring to the table:
- In the process of pursuing a Bachelor's degree; in your junior year of an undergraduate program.
- Have and maintain high academic standards within your institution.
- Ability to participate fully in an 8-week immersive internship experience.
We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.
Perks & Benefits:
- Gain professional work experience in an area related to your degree.
- Potential opportunity upon graduation to interview for a full time position with a successful, fast growing company.
- Company outings, happy hours and Town Halls.
- Referral Bonus Program.
- Fun Culture >>> Check us out on Instagram (@lifeatshipbob)
Classification: Hourly/Non- Exempt
Reports to: Business Development Manager
ShipBob provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Internal Use Only, Requisition #: POPS-1411
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