Intern: Business Development & Growth

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.
Responsibilities

What 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 skills
Who 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.