The Role
Six-month business development internship supporting market research, lead generation, sales opportunity qualification, presentations, proposals, customer feedback analysis, and growth initiatives. The intern will collaborate with founders and cross-functional teams while developing experience in B2B consultative selling, technology, and startup operations.
Summary Generated by Built In
Lightly AG is an official ETH and HSG Spin-off in the field of machine learning and computer vision. Its products are used by leading companies in autonomous driving, medical imaging, and visual inspection to curate visual machine learning data.
Lightly consists of a small team of talented developers, researchers, and business developers in Zurich, who all have a massive impact on the business and product. The company is backed by Y-Combinator, Wingman Ventures, and Soma Capital.
Tasks
This job offers you the perfect opportunity to gain insight and first-hand experience into what it is like to build a company from scratch and work as an entrepreneur. The 6-month internship entails various tasks on the business side, ensuring that you are never bored and have a new challenge every day. It's a unique opportunity for candidates who want to work directly with the founders/C-level of a startup. Some of the key responsibilities are:
* Conduct market research to identify industry trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape across our key markets.
* Identify and qualify new potential sales opportunities and leads through diverse channels to build sustainable customer relationships.
* Assist in preparing presentations, proposals, and documentation to communicate findings and recommendations to the team.
* Support product management by capturing and analyzing customer feedback in our CRM to align product offering with customer needs.
* Collaborate with strategy, marketing, and operations teams to support business initiatives and accelerate company growth.
Requirements
Who we are looking for:
* Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and/or English
* Strong presentation skills
* Strong business acumen and a flair for B2B consultative solution selling
* Exceptional negotiation and interpersonal skills
* Passion for sales, technology, and innovation
* Advanced MS Office or, preferably, G-Suite skills
Important: We believe in people who are driven by curiosity and are willing to learn and take the next step. Please also reach out if you don't exactly "check all these boxes".
Benefits
* Potential full-time employment as a business development representative or founder associate after completing the internship
* Office in the heart of Zurich next to the central station
* Company events, retreats, and offsites
* As you will work directly with the founders, you will have the opportunity to significantly impact the startup’s overall progress.
We look forward to getting to know you!
Lightly consists of a small team of talented developers, researchers, and business developers in Zurich, who all have a massive impact on the business and product. The company is backed by Y-Combinator, Wingman Ventures, and Soma Capital.
Tasks
This job offers you the perfect opportunity to gain insight and first-hand experience into what it is like to build a company from scratch and work as an entrepreneur. The 6-month internship entails various tasks on the business side, ensuring that you are never bored and have a new challenge every day. It's a unique opportunity for candidates who want to work directly with the founders/C-level of a startup. Some of the key responsibilities are:
* Conduct market research to identify industry trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape across our key markets.
* Identify and qualify new potential sales opportunities and leads through diverse channels to build sustainable customer relationships.
* Assist in preparing presentations, proposals, and documentation to communicate findings and recommendations to the team.
* Support product management by capturing and analyzing customer feedback in our CRM to align product offering with customer needs.
* Collaborate with strategy, marketing, and operations teams to support business initiatives and accelerate company growth.
Requirements
Who we are looking for:
* Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and/or English
* Strong presentation skills
* Strong business acumen and a flair for B2B consultative solution selling
* Exceptional negotiation and interpersonal skills
* Passion for sales, technology, and innovation
* Advanced MS Office or, preferably, G-Suite skills
Important: We believe in people who are driven by curiosity and are willing to learn and take the next step. Please also reach out if you don't exactly "check all these boxes".
Benefits
* Potential full-time employment as a business development representative or founder associate after completing the internship
* Office in the heart of Zurich next to the central station
* Company events, retreats, and offsites
* As you will work directly with the founders, you will have the opportunity to significantly impact the startup’s overall progress.
We look forward to getting to know you!
Skills Required
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and/or English
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong business acumen and aptitude for B2B consultative solution selling
- Exceptional negotiation and interpersonal skills
- Passion for sales, technology, and innovation
- Advanced Microsoft Office or G Suite skills
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The Company
What We Do
Lightly is a data-centric AI company that helps machine learning teams build better vision systems by curating and managing vision data. It provides tools for data curation, labeling, and model pretraining to optimize datasets and accelerate AI development.
