Business Development Intern, Strategy

🕒 September 4

🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $40 - $60 / hour

👨‍🎓 Internship

⚪️ Entry-level

💰 Business Development (BDR)

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NewsBreak

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

📱 Media

🛍️ eCommerce

🌍 Social Impact

Media • eCommerce • Social Impact

NewsBreak is a local news platform that aggregates headlines and articles to deliver the latest news to users based on their chosen locations. It offers a variety of content covering local events, breaking news, and community standard information, ensuring users stay informed about topics of interest in their areas. With a focus on transparency and accuracy, NewsBreak publishes over 100,000 pieces of content daily, creating a space for meaningful dialogue and free expression.

📋 Description

• Map the local service-provider landscape, including merchant density, acquisition channels, and competitive platforms • Size opportunities and prioritize merchant categories or neighborhoods using a scoring framework • Build target lists and conduct self-sourced outreach via phone, email, in-person visits, and social media • Pitch Nearby.ai's value proposition and handle objections with local business owners • Build and maintain a CRM or spreadsheet pipeline • Track response-rate, outreach, and conversion data • Turn merchant feedback into structured insights • Build business cases quantifying expected partners signed and revenue impact • Draft outreach scripts, pitch decks, and partnership proposals • Lead onboarding conversations through close • Recommend onboarding improvements • Report weekly on outreach metrics, pipeline, insights, and next steps • Deliver a final presentation with market analysis, results, and a recommended merchant-acquisition strategy

🎯 Requirements

• Currently pursuing an MBA or equivalent graduate business program • Prior experience in consulting, sales, business development, or a startup is ideal • Strong quantitative and analytical skills • Comfortable working in spreadsheets and data • Excellent written and verbal communication • Confidence to cold-call and negotiate with small-business owners • Comfortable being fully self-directed • High tolerance for ambiguity and rejection • Energized by 0-to-1, hands-on work

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid internship • Potential to convert to a full-time role based on performance • End-to-end ownership of a merchant-acquisition initiative • Learn the full cycle of partnership development at an early-stage company • Build a portfolio of quantified business impact