Enterprise Sales and Marketing Intern (Remote)

United States Remote

Enterprise Sales and Marketing Intern 

About the Role:

This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to accelerate their career in sales and marketing by gaining experience generating leads at top-tier enterprise retailers. You will be at the forefront of an exciting product that helps financially empower our shoppers’ lives, but also helps our merchant partners grow their businesses quickly by attracting a new audience of shoppers to their brand. In this role, you will be accountable for initiating conversations with prospective merchants, creating marketing content and materials to drive awareness amongst enterprise retailers, setting meetings for account executives and sales directors, and finding other creative ways to generate sales leads. We use a variety of different sales tools and automation in our prospecting efforts to help us drive results!

This particular Intern role will be placed on our Enterprise Sales Team, predominantly focused on the largest US-based retailers generating over $500M in annual revenues.

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose long-standing mission is to financially empower the next generation. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the numerous eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle.

As the first and only B-Corp in the payments space, Sezzle’s goal is to help everyone pursue financial freedom, and to invest in social good and ethical initiatives that shape a better world. 

At Sezzle, we’re committed to putting purpose alongside profitability. We work hard to maintain rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency to build a better world. The employees at Sezzle lean into significant societal and cultural shifts, ensuring internal and external focus on positive impacts that benefit our community.

 Key Role Responsibilities: 

• Generate outbound sales (lead generation) and executive conversations through email, cold calling, LinkedIn, and digital campaigns
• Coordinate product demonstrations between Sezzle Account Executives/Sales Directors and prospective merchants
• Track communication and engagement via Salesforce and Salesloft and other tools
• Close sales and assist merchants with onboarding
• Account-based marketing campaign management
• Event planning and coordination

Minimum Requirements:

• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree with at least 2 years of coursework completed 
• (Junior, Senior preferred)
• Preferred GPA of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale

Preferred Knowledge & Skills:

• Experience with successful outbound prospecting is a plus
• Related experience in payments or fintech or startups is a plus
• Experience with SalesForce is a plus
• Growth-minded and looking to turn challenges into opportunities
• Self-starter, ability to perform with a lot of autonomy
• Fun and collaborative and enjoy working with a team ★
• People-person who derives energy from meeting with others ★
• Driven to learn new things and develop skills
• Adept at managing time and competing priorities
• Attention to detail 
• Hunter mentality ★

About You: 

• A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle. 
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build. 
• Ownership. You aren’t afraid to take on new responsibilities and you act like an owner in everything you do.
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things. 
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.
• An excellent communicator. Internally / externally / everywhere!

Perks & Benefits: 

• Competitive Pay 
• Option to work remotely (HQ in Minneapolis)
• Collaborative fun workspace (if you’re at HQ or we have IRL team meetings)
• Impactful and meaningful work projects
• Opportunity to join a fast-growing fintech alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals

Compensation

The compensation range for the role is $18 - $22/hour. Our ranges are very broad to accommodate all types of candidates and encourage growth. Specific compensation offered to a candidate may be dependent on factors such as education, experience, qualifications, and alignment with market data. Exceptional candidates may receive compensation outside of the posted ranges.

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.

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