Business Development Intern, US Market

About Socavi

Socavi is building an AI-powered engagement-to-revenue platform that helps businesses capture, engage, qualify, and convert leads across channels such as WhatsApp, Instagram, website chat, and other communication channels. We help businesses automate customer conversations, respond faster to enquiries, qualify potential customers, and turn more conversations into revenue.

About the Role

We are looking for a proactive Business Development Intern to help us explore and grow our presence in the US market.

Key Responsibilities

• Prospect Research: Identify potential customers, businesses, agencies, and decision-makers in the US market.
• Outbound Sales: Reach out to prospects through cold email, LinkedIn, phone calls, and other relevant channels.
• Lead Qualification: Understand business workflows, customer engagement challenges, existing tools, and potential use cases for Socavi.
• Demo Booking: Generate qualified leads and schedule product demonstrations with interested prospects.
• Follow-ups: Maintain consistent communication with prospects and help move opportunities forward.
• Customer Discovery: Speak with business owners and decision-makers to understand their needs, current processes, budgets, and willingness to adopt AI-powered solutions.
• Sales Pipeline Management: Maintain accurate prospect records, outreach activity, responses, follow-ups, and demo outcomes.
• Market Research: Identify promising customer segments, evaluate competitors, test outreach messaging, and share insights with the founding team.
• Continuous Improvement: Experiment with outreach strategies and improve response rates, qualified demos, and customer conversions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
• Comfortable speaking with US-based business owners and decision-makers.
• Proactive, self-driven, and willing to take ownership of business development activities.
• Interested in B2B sales, SaaS, AI products, and startups.
• Comfortable with cold outreach, follow-ups, and handling rejection.
• Able to research prospects and communicate business value clearly.
• Familiarity with LinkedIn, email outreach, spreadsheets, or CRM tools is a plus.
• Willing to work flexible hours to overlap with US business hours.

Compensation

• ₹5,000/month fixed stipend
• ₹200 for every qualified demo attended by a prospect.
• ₹2,000–₹5,000 for every customer successfully converted, subject to agreed qualification and attribution criteria.
• Additional performance-based bonuses may be offered for achieving agreed targets.
• No cap on performance-based incentives.
• Incentives are tied to measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Freshers and candidates with relevant sales, marketing, lead generation, or business development experience are welcome.