Business Development Intern

Spherecast • New York, NY

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Spherecast is seeking a Business Development Intern to help introduce its platform to consumer goods brands. Working directly with the founding team, the intern will research prospects, create personalized outreach, make cold calls, coordinate gifting campaigns, and turn conversations into qualified sales opportunities. The role owns outreach details from initial contact through follow-up, while testing and improving approaches based on the conversations and meetings they generate.

The position is on-site with the team in New York City. Spherecast builds an AI-native operating system for consumer goods supply chains, with a platform that brings demand, inventory, materials, capacity, and costs into a real-time operating context. Its AI Supply Chain Manager, Agnes, supports production, purchasing, and inventory decisions and can turn approved decisions into actions in customers’ systems.

Requirements

• Comfort making phone calls and starting conversations with people they have not met.
• Persistence and resilience, including the ability to learn from rejection and continue outreach.
• Organization and reliability in managing shipping details, contact information, and follow-up dates.
• Resourcefulness and creativity in finding relevant outreach angles and thoughtful gifts.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Ownership, ability to move quickly, and willingness to ask for feedback and improve.
• Curiosity about startups, sales, and how consumer brands operate.
• Excitement about working on-site with the team in New York City.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in sales, video editing or cinematography, fundraising, hospitality, student organizations, or building something independently.
• Previous business development experience; it is welcome but not required.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run personalized gifting campaigns, including researching prospects, developing gift ideas, sourcing and packaging gifts, coordinating shipping, and following up after delivery.
• Cold call prospective customers, introduce Spherecast, handle initial objections, and book qualified meetings with supply chain and operations leaders.
• Research consumer brands, identify relevant decision-makers, and build targeted prospect lists.
• Create personalized emails, LinkedIn messages, and handwritten notes to engage prospective customers.
• Track conversations, deliveries, and next steps in the CRM, and follow up to keep promising opportunities moving.
• Test different messages, gifts, and outreach approaches; track which ones generate conversations and meetings; and build on what works.
• Support events and campaigns by helping attract relevant attendees and turning introductions into ongoing conversations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed