Business Development & Strategy Intern (MBA) (AI)

Location: Remote

Compensation: $40–60 hourly

Company

hirify.global is a content intelligence platform with over 40 million monthly active users, while Nearby.ai is an early-stage home services platform connecting homeowners with local service providers.

What you will do

• Map local service-provider markets, assess merchant density and acquisition channels, and evaluate competitive platforms.
• Size opportunities and prioritize merchant categories, neighborhoods, and territories using a scoring framework.
• Build target lists and conduct self-sourced outreach by phone, email, social media, and in-person visits.
• Pitch Nearby.ai to business owners, handle objections, negotiate partnerships, and lead onboarding conversations through close.
• Track pipeline stages, next steps, expected closes, outreach activity, response rates, and conversion data.
• Develop a business case and present market analysis, results, and a recommended merchant-acquisition strategy to leadership.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing an MBA or equivalent graduate business program.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including comfort working with spreadsheets and data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence in cold-calling and negotiating with small-business owners.
• Ability to work independently, create plans, and operate in ambiguous 0-to-1 environments.
• Availability for 20–40 hours per week over a 3–6 month internship.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in consulting, sales, business development, or a startup.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote internship with end-to-end ownership of a merchant-acquisition initiative.
• Hands-on experience in partnership development at an early-stage company.
• Opportunity to build a portfolio of quantified business impact, including signed partners, pipeline, and market analysis.
• Potential conversion to a full-time role based on performance.