Business Development & Growth Intern

About the opportunityAbout the Role

Avenue Eco is looking for an energetic and entrepreneurial Business Development & Growth Intern to work directly with our CRO and support sales, business development, growth campaigns, partnerships, customer engagement, and events.

This is not a traditional internship where you spend your time observing from the sidelines.

You’ll be directly involved in prospect and customer meetings, outbound campaigns, business development initiatives, executive events, and the day-to-day work of growing a technology company.

We’re looking for someone who can become a true right hand to the CRO — proactive, organized, resourceful, comfortable with people, and excited to learn quickly.

ResponsibilitiesWhat You’ll Do

Sales & Business Development

• Support business development across the entire sales cycle
• Research prospective companies, decision-makers, and potential partners
• Help identify new business, partnership, and pilot opportunities
• Participate in prospect, customer, partner, and demo meetings
• Prepare meeting briefs and help drive follow-ups and next steps
• Support both pre-sales and post-sales activities
• Help maintain momentum across multiple active opportunities

Outreach & Growth Campaigns

• Help create, launch, and manage multiple outbound campaigns
• Run targeted LinkedIn and email campaigns
• Build and organize prospect and audience lists
• Help develop messaging, outreach sequences, and campaign ideas
• Learn and experiment with new sales, prospecting, automation, and AI tools
• Monitor campaign results and identify what is working
• Help improve targeting and messaging based on campaign performance

Events

• Work directly with the CRO to help plan and execute events across the San Francisco Bay Area
• Support invitations, attendee outreach, speakers, partners, sponsors, and logistics
• Help coordinate event preparation and on-site execution
• Attend executive dinners, networking events, conferences, customer gatherings, and other business events
• Manage post-event outreach and follow-up
• Occasionally travel to other cities to support Avenue Eco events and business development activities

Must-have skillsWho We’re Looking For

You may be a great fit if you are:

• A college student, graduate student, or recent graduate
• Interested in sales, business development, AI, startups, marketing, events, or entrepreneurship
• Highly proactive and comfortable taking initiative
• Organized and able to manage several priorities at the same time
• A strong written and verbal communicator
• Comfortable meeting and speaking with new people
• Curious about technology and eager to learn new tools
• Resourceful and able to figure things out independently
• Professional enough to participate in executive meetings
• Energetic and comfortable working in a fast-moving environment
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Available for in-person meetings and events
• Open to occasional travel

Previous sales or business development experience is helpful, but not required. We care much more about energy, curiosity, ownership, communication, and willingness to learn.

What You’ll Gain

This role provides direct exposure to:

• B2B sales and business development
• SDR and BDR strategies
• LinkedIn and email outreach
• Sales and AI tools
• Prospecting and pipeline generation
• Customer meetings and demos
• Pre-sales and post-sales
• Partnerships
• Executive-level networking
• Event strategy and execution
• Startup growth and go-to-market strategy

You’ll work closely with Avenue Eco’s CRO and have the opportunity to learn directly from real customer conversations, sales opportunities, campaigns, partnerships, and events.

Pay: From $20.00 per hour

Expected hours: 30.0 – 40.0 per week

Work Location: In person