Business Development / Sales Intern

About Blaze

Global Venmo for cross border payments

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Blaze is building the AI CFO for modern businesses 🤖💰

We're a YC S24 company backed by General Catalyst, creating the agentic finance platform where AI agents move money and manage finances autonomously. Licensed as an MSB and VASP, we serve 50+ countries with instant settlement powered by stablecoin rails.

Real talk: This isn't a "shadow and take notes" internship. You'll be doing actual sales work from day one — building relationships, closing deals, and earning commission on what you close. Think of it as an intensive crash course in B2B sales at a fast-growing YC fintech.

💼 What You'll Do

• Send 50-100 personalized outreach messages per day via email and LinkedIn to agencies, SaaS companies, and service businesses


• Book and conduct 3-5 discovery calls per week — qualifying prospects and demoing our AI CFO


• Close deals and earn commission (we'll train you on the full sales process)


• Build AI sales agents and automated outreach sequences to scale your pipeline


• Track prospects through our CRM and analyze campaign performance (Instantly, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator)


• Identify new target segments and refine our ICP strategy based on what's converting

🎯 Who You Are

• Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from university


• Excellent written communication (English required)


• Self-motivated and comfortable working remotely


• Not afraid of rejection (sales means lots of "no"s before "yes"s)


• Available 20-40 hours per week for 3-6 months

📚 What You'll Learn

• B2B sales fundamentals (discovery, objection handling, closing)


• Growth marketing (campaigns, A/B testing, funnel optimization)


• How to build and deploy AI sales agents for automation


• Agentic finance and AI-powered financial operations


• Data-driven decision making and performance optimization

📊 Success Metrics (3 months)

• 3,000+ personalized outreach messages sent


• 30+ discovery calls conducted


• 10+ new business customers closed


• Measurable improvement in campaign conversion rates

⚡ Why This Role is Different

• 💰 Commission-based: Earn on every deal you close


• 🚀 Real responsibility: Own relationships and close real deals (not just shadowing)


• 🎓 Full-time conversion: Strong performers transition to paid full-time roles


• 👥 Direct mentorship: Weekly 1-on-1s with founding team


• ⚡ Fast feedback loops: See impact in days, not months


• 🌟 Career acceleration: Get warm intros to other top startups in our network

🌟 Ideal Candidate

You're scrappy, curious, and hungry to learn. Comfortable with ambiguity and excited by building something from scratch. You understand that sales is about solving problems, not just pitching products. You track your own metrics without being asked. You write clearly and persuasively. When you hear "no," you ask "why?" instead of giving up.

📝 Interview Process

1. Application review


2. 15-min phone screen


3. Take-home exercise (write outreach sequences for 2 ICPs)


4. Final interview with founding team (45 min, includes role-play)

Timeline: 1-2 weeks from application to offer

Website: https://blaze.money