Job Title: Strategic Account Intern
Start date: Immediate availability preferred
Hours per week: Full-time
About Sezzle:
Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company dedicated to financially empowering the next generation. With only one in three millennials owning a credit card and the majority lacking their desired credit scores, Sezzle addresses these challenges through a payment platform that offers interest-free installment plans at online stores. By increasing consumers' purchasing power, Sezzle drives sales and basket sizes for thousands of eCommerce merchants that it partners with.
About the Role:
As a Strategic Account Intern, you'll gain invaluable experience working with our merchant partners to drive growth and success. We will go the extra mile to make sure you receive a learning experience that you'll never forget. You will become extremely knowledgeable in sales, partnerships and client services best practices. You will also learn how to work in a professional environment and will be working side-by-side with company leadership.
We are seeking a talented and motivated Strategic Account Intern who is best in class, excelling in both high IQ and high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.
What You'll Learn:
- How to work with existing merchant partners to drive additional growth.
- How to bring leads through a sales cycle and win contracts.
- How to create compelling content that will be shared with merchant partners, customers and the public.
- How to establish trust and master day-to-day management of client & partner relationships.
- Ad hoc project opportunities with cross-functional teams throughout the business.
What We Look For:
- Final year of a Bachelor's degree OR currently pursuing a Master's degree
- Working toward a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Marketing, Communication, or other related discipline.
- Minimum of 4.2 GPA (on a 5.0 scale).
- Able to work during the school year starting as soon as possible.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Proficient in Google Apps.
- Organized, with an ability to prioritize time-sensitive assignments.
- Creative, Detailed and Flexible.
- Strong acumen to effectively communicate in a corporate environment.
Preferred Knowledge & Skills:
- Experience with Salesforce is a plus.
- Growth-minded and looking to turn challenges into opportunities.
- Fun and collaborative and enjoy working with a team.
- People-person who derives energy from meeting with others.
- Passionate about helping others.
- Adept at managing time.
About You:
- You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
- You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
- You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
- You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
- You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
- You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.
What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome:
At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators. We believe in surrounding ourselves with only the best and the brightest individuals. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.
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