Business Development & Strategy Intern (MBA) - Nearby.ai

📋 Description

• Independently map the local service-provider landscape in an assigned category or geography (for
• Size the opportunity and prioritize which merchant categories or neighborhoods to target first
• Build your own target list and reach out directly via phone, email, in-person visits, and social
• Introduce Nearby.ai and pitch the value proposition to local business owners, handling objections
• Build and maintain a pipeline in a CRM or spreadsheet with real discipline: stage, next step, and
• Adjust your outreach approach based on the response-rate data you track yourself

🎯 Requirements

• Currently pursuing an MBA (or equivalent graduate business program), ideally with prior experience
• Comfortable being fully self-directed — you build the plan, not just execute someone else's
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; genuinely comfortable working in spreadsheets and data
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the confidence to cold-call and negotiate with
• High tolerance for ambiguity and rejection — energized by 0-to-1, hands-on work

🎁 Benefits

• Own a real merchant-acquisition initiative from research through close — a rare level of end-to-end
• Learn the full cycle of partnership development at an early-stage company where your work directly
• Build a portfolio of quantified business impact (partners signed, pipeline built, market analysis
• Potential to convert to a full-time role based on performance