Business Development / Sales Intern at Blaze

<p>Blaze is building the AI CFO for modern businesses 🤖💰</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Real talk:</strong> 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.</p> <h2>💼 What You'll Do</h2> <ul> <li>Send 50-100 personalized outreach messages per day via email and LinkedIn to agencies, SaaS companies, and service businesses</li> <li>Book and conduct 3-5 discovery calls per week — qualifying prospects and demoing our AI CFO</li> <li>Close deals and earn commission (we'll train you on the full sales process)</li> <li>Build AI sales agents and automated outreach sequences to scale your pipeline</li> <li>Track prospects through our CRM and analyze campaign performance (Instantly, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator)</li> <li>Identify new tar