The Opportunity:

Sales Strategy & Business Development Intern

(remote within North American time-zone, full-time or part-time role)

Disco is reimagining the future of live learning. We help creators build live virtual learning experiences that are social and engaging. We offer creators and brands an all-in-one, revenue generating platform to scale their learning empire.

Through our full-service studio arm Disco Studios, we work with thought leaders, brands, and organizations to leverage the power of live learning to transform how they create impact.

In the role of Sales Strategy and Business Development Intern, you’ll have the opportunity to grow the reach of Disco Studios offerings with your resourcefulness, curiosity, and initiative. As a member of our growing Business Development Team, you’ll have the opportunity to help drive revenue and growth by helping build a highly impact learner acquisition engine and & secure high visibility partnership opportunities for Disco Studios. You’ll play a key role in identifying, cultivating & growing strategic partnerships for Disco Studios overall, as well as prospecting, nurturing, and enrolling learners and teams for key offerings, including Roger Martin’s Create Your Winning Strategy learning experience, cultural icon Margaret Atwood’s Practical Utopias experience, and future industry leading learning experiences.

We’re creating a new category for how the world engages with game-changing ideas, and looking for an energized and creative addition to our business development team to spread our mission.

In this role, you’ll be a passionate and energized self-starter who brings an entrepreneurial spirit & collaborative approach that will enable growth of our Disco Studios business.

In the role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

Work with our Disco Studios team to drive revenue growth for our premium offerings through strategic partnership opportunities in our pipeline
Identify and prospect new learners & partners for key Studios projects, such as Roger Martin’s & Margaret Atwood’s live learning experience, including corporate clients, communities, and individuals
Collaborate with Disco team members to manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to nurturing to closing, building out our sales discipline internally
Collaborate with Disco team members to support day-to-day operations, planning, and management of Disco Studios offerings
Ideate and resourcefully identify learner acquisition strategies and tactics for Disco Studios overall
Collaborate with Disco Studios team on partnership strategy and business development deliverables to help secure revenue generation partnerships across multiple verticals
Provide general administrative, financial analysis, forecasting, budget maintenance, and support across the Business Development and Sales function within Disco Studios

Who you are:

Take initiative: You are known for your strong work ethic and go-getter mentality. You have a bias to action in taking the simplest path, and know when to ask questions along the way.
You have 1-2 years experience in B2B and/or B2C sales and business development (including work experiences and/or extra curricular activities).
Relationship-Builder: You pride yourself on your ability to build genuine connections with a wide range of people. You understand the importance of building strong relationships, and listening to customers
Collaborative: You thrive working in a collaborative, performance-driven, and fast paced environment.
Grit: You have unwavering grit and are able to work through adversity
Life-Long Learner - You are excited about the prospect of learning new skills and embrace feedback
Communication: You’re able to create and deliver messaging succinctly in a way that resonates with your target audience and inspires action, thanks to your excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Empathy: Emotional intelligence is one of your superpowers. You understand how others succeed by stepping into their shoes and showing that you care.
Diligence: You are thorough, meticulous, and have astonishing attention to detail and documentation.
Organization: You are extremely organized and pride yourself on your ability to follow-up and follow-through.
Owner: You act like an owner and take ownership for mistakes. You don’t place blame on others, and instead look for ways to be accountable.
Experience selling/managing pipelines and familiar with tools like Hubspot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and other prospecting applications.

About Disco:

For knowledge creators and organizations, Disco offers an all-in-one SaaS platform and full service solution to create, market, engage, and scale a live learning empire. Disco is the operating system for a new breed of micro schools, learning communities, academies, and bootcamps born out of the pandemic and committed to providing transformation learning that is live, social, virtual, and experiential.

We are a remote-first team and are bringing together the best and brightest humans who have a shared purpose to reimagine learning and help creators build live learning empires. If our values align with yours, come join us on our mission!

Here’s what we stand for:

🚀 Champion the Mission: Reimagine the future of learning, leaving the industrial age behind led by creators we trust, with peers for support/accountability, live and accessible from anywhere in the world

💡 Be A Creator: Have deep empathy for the creative process, creator journey and entrepreneurship.

🌲 Growth Mindset: We value a growth mindset and lifelong learning. Learn by doing: test, iterate, feedback, learn.

💨 Simplify & Move Fast with Judgment: Choose the simplest path (not the easiest path) - most decisions are reversible.

❤️ Net Positive, Conscious & Inclusive: We want not only our intention but our impact to be net positive in the world.

😎 Have fun, Enjoy the Journey: Enjoy the freedom that comes with remote work and do your best work anywhere in the world.

Disco is a fully remote and globally distributed team. And right now we have team members in Toronto, Halifax, Montreal, Vancouver, and Costa Rica.

Disco is an equal opportunity employer and believes a commitment to diversity and inclusion makes learning better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities.

We're seeking people who are passionate about supporting creators, and reimagining the future of learning. We'd love to meet you!