Business Development Intern
Job Description: REMOTE Business Development Summer Intern
StayTuned Digital, a startup software company, is looking for a summer intern to lead our business development efforts. Our Company builds and acquires applications on the Shopify e-commerce platform. We are looking for a highly motivated intern candidate to map the universe of potential applications that we can acquire, and to then use business-to-business sales skills to reach out to companies and hopefully convince them to sell their business to StayTuned.
Reporting directly to StayTuned's Head of Corporate Development, the ideal candidate will be a highly self-motivated individual with great business-to-business sales skills. We are open to a wide variety of educational background, but we need a confident business-minded person who can generate and nurture leads, while diligently tracking their performance.
Location: REMOTE [preference for candidates that can meet in downtown Miami 1-2x per week]
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Your job will be to reach out to Shopify software companies and build a pipeline of potential acquisitions.
- Conduct industry and competitive research to identify Shopify applications that meet our strategic criteria and specific metrics.
- Perform detective work to find the owners of selected Shopify applications (typically using LinkedIn, web search, etc).
- Reach out to owners of selected Shopify applications to open a dialogue about selling their software business to StayTuned.
- Track your daily outreach and pipeline in our CRM database.
- Make recommendations to the senior leadership team of Jonas Software to pursue new targets or to enter new and adjacent markets.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstrated success in cold emailing, prospecting and sales processes
- Strong writing skills.
- Hustler mentality.
- Must be self-motivated, have organizational agility and have the ability to plan own work schedule and set and monitor personal performance goals.
- Educational path to a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, business or a related area of study or equivalent is an asset.
WHAT WILL REALLY MAKE YOU STAND OUT:
- Prior knowledge or experience running your own e-commerce business, website or other digital commerce platform is a huge asset.
- Fluency in an Asian language (Vietnamese, Hindi, Malay, Filipino)
More About StayTuned Digital:
StayTuned Digital is a startup software company that build and acquires Shopify apps. The mission of the company is to enable merchants to unlock efficient and scalable growth using user-friendly tools . StayTuned currently serves 16,000 ecommerce merchants across its portfolio of apps.
Out company has executed six acquisitions to date, with many more to come!
We are a seasoned team from startups and big tech with experience building SaaS products for top brands. Our team comes from companies such as Google, Sony Music, SinglePlatform, Ollie and Thuzio.