Xgrid.co

Business Development Intern

Xgrid.co  •  San Jose, CA (Onsite)  •  5 months ago
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Job Description

As a Business Development Intern, you will be a key player in our outreach efforts, engaging with new clients via emails, calls, and social media, with a special focus on LinkedIn. You will be responsible for building curated customer relations data pipelines to support user acquisition campaigns on platforms like HubSpot and LinkedIn. Additionally, you'll play a crucial role in maintaining our sales pipeline data and ensuring accurate daily activity logging on the team's tracker.

Responsibilities

  • Research and identify high-potential leads across our target accounts

  • Execute outbound prospecting strategies across email, LinkedIn, and phone

  • Write clear, personalized outreach messages that break through the noise

  • Qualify leads by understanding their needs, challenges, and intent

  • Conduct effective discovery calls to uncover business pain points

  • Collaborate with inbound and marketing teams to create sync between outreach efforts

  • Maintain accurate records of activities and leads in the CRM (e.g., HubSpot)

  • Log daily activities on the team tracker and report progress weekly

  • Meet or exceed weekly/monthly goals for qualified meetings booked

  • Share learnings from outbound tests, messaging, and market insights with the team

Key Skills for the Position

  1. Excellent Communication Skills
    Ability to speak and write with clarity and confidence—whether on a call or in an email.

  2. Strong Writing Skills
    Crafting sharp, concise, and human-sounding outreach messages is critical for success.

  3. Curiosity and Analytical Thinking
    You’re naturally curious, ask thoughtful questions, and can identify patterns in what works and what doesn’t.

  4. Grit and Coachability
    You bounce back from rejection, learn from feedback, and improve fast.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, IT, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

  • 0–1 year of experience in outbound sales, business development, or lead generation

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Comfortable using tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator, HubSpot, Apollo, etc.

  • Strong sense of ownership, hustle, and continuous learning

  • Bonus: You’re a reader, especially books on sales, psychology, or personal growth

This is an entry-level position with the potential to convert into a full-time permanent role based on performance.

Xgrid.co

About Xgrid.co

Xgrid is a tech-first digital services and cloud innovation company, specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, application development, data engineering, Kubernetes, security, and full service digital agency services.

With over a decade of expertise, Xgrid partners with Fortune 500 companies, high-growth unicorns, and ambitious B2B SaaS startups, primarily across the US and EU, driving impactful transformations in their digital journeys.

Having deployed thousands of applications and delivered hundreds of successful projects, Xgrid boasts a 98% success rate across three continents.

Our operational teams, based in California and spanning North America, Australia, and Asia-Pacific, include architects from industry leaders such as AWS, Google, Salesforce, Nvidia, and VMware, bringing unparalleled expertise to every project.

Xgrid’s mission is to empower early stage startups and SMBs to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and elevate customer experiences from ground up.

With 93% employee retention and over 85% certified professionals, we consistently deliver world-class solutions in web and mobile development, secure cloud infrastructures, and cutting-edge UI/UX.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
Year Founded
2012
Website
xgrid.co
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