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Reach out to retail prospects, send outreach messages, qualify leads, maintain CRM pipeline, and experiment with AI tools for outreach. | Must be a student or recent graduate motivated to learn sales, comfortable with repetitive outreach, clear communicator, and excited about startups and creative culture. | Want to break into startups, sales, and creative business? Apply is a consumer brand & creative studio all about personalization & self-expression. We make the best stickers & patches on Earth, designed in-house & in collaboration with iconic artists (ex: Warhol); musicians (ex: The Beatles); and characters (ex: Snoopy). We primarily sell our products via stores that consumers know & love — museums (ex: MoMA); outdoors stores (ex: REI); art supplies stores (ex: Blick); bookstores (ex: Barnes & Noble College); and hundreds of tasteful independent retailers all over the world. We’re backed by a group of world class angel investors, including Scott Belsky (Partner at A24 & ex-Chief Product Officer at Adobe); Jen Rubio (founder & ex-CEO of Away Travel); Michael Lynton (Chairman of Snap); and more. This is where you come in: We’re scaling fast & looking for a Sales Development Intern to join our team. This is a part-time, entry-level role — perfect for a student or recent grad — where you’ll learn how to grow a creative business, reporting to & getting mentored by our founder/CEO, Spencer Lazar (an ex-VC at General Catalyst & serial entrepreneur). What you’ll do: • Reach out to small & medium retail prospects, sourced initially by our broader sales team • Send clear, authentic messages to spark conversations (templates & training provided) • Qualify interested leads & smoothly hand them off to our Partnerships team to close • Keep our pipeline organized & humming in Hubspot (our CRM) • Experiment with AI tools (like ChatGPT) to make outreach faster & smarter What you’ll gain: • Direct mentorship — learn how to build an early sales engine in startups from our CEO & Partnerships Lead • Startup exposure — see what it takes to scale a creative brand with proven product-market fit • Career springboard — build skills in sales, account management, and business development that apply anywhere • Path to grow — high performers will have the chance to take on more ownership & accounts • Foundational Relationships - develop a network within & beyond Apply that will serve you for decades in your career Who you are: • A student (UChicago, Northwestern, DePaul, Loyola, UIC, IIT, or nearby) or recent grad • Hungry to learn sales & business development — no experience required • Comfortable with repetitive outreach work & understand why it matters • Motivated by our creative mission, but excited to exceed key performance metrics • Excited by startups, creative culture, and finding new ways to work smarter with AI • Clear, friendly communicator who writes great short messages How to Apply: Email us at jobs@applystickers.com with: • A note (250 words max) describing who you are; your career goals; why this role excites you; and anything that helps us get to know you. • A PDF of your resume • A short (<2 min) video describing a retailer that you think would be a great fit for our products & why. Please use a simple service like Loom.