Business Development Executive

About Velocity Growth Velocity Growth is the Middle East and Africa's first true growth-as-a-service consultancy. We partner with startups, scale-ups, corporates and venture capital firms to design and execute bespoke growth engines spanning data science, performance marketing, CRM, product optimization and engineering. We're a boutique team: every hire shapes the firm. This internship is built for someone who wants to learn modern growth from operators, not from a textbook, and be part of the Business Development Founding Team. The Role As our BD Intern, you sit at the front of the funnel. You'll own both the inbound side of our brand presence running our LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok presence and coordinating with the design team to ship content that actually converts, while also running outbound: personalized cold outreach to founders, growth leads, marketing leads and CMOs across the GCC and into our up-and-coming markets (KSA, Levant, South Africa, Australia, Singapore and USA). Over three months, you'll graduate from coordinator to operator: by week 12 you'll be researching companies, deploying our AI tools to build prospect-specific reports, and joining live pitches for SME accounts. What You'll Do Outbound: Lead Generation • Run personalized cold outreach on email and LinkedIn to a target list you help build. • Research target accounts using AI tools (some of which are ours). Produce account-specific briefs and outreach hooks and leverage the generated audits. • Track replies, manage the CRM hygiene, and book discovery calls for senior partners. • By month 3: own pitches and pipeline directly for SMEs and upcoming market opportunities. AI & Tooling • Become fluent in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini & other AI tools. • Get hands-on with social scheduling tools, Hubspot, and our internal AI prospecting stack. • Complete three vendor certifications during the internship: Bloomreach, Amplitude, and Adjust. Inbound: Lead Generation • Own inbound lead capture across Velocity Growth’s website, social channels, referrals, partnerships and campaign landing pages. • Qualify incoming leads based on company profile, market, business need, budget, urgency and overall fit with Velocity Growth’s services. • Respond to inbound enquiries quickly, ask the right discovery questions, and route qualified opportunities to the relevant senior partner. • Research each inbound account before the first conversation. Build a concise company brief, identify likely growth gaps, and use our AI tools to generate relevant audits and talking points. • Track every enquiry, follow-up and next step in HubSpot. Maintain clean CRM records, prevent leads from going cold, and support the team in converting qualified interest into discovery calls and pipeline. Who You Are • Fresh graduate (or final-semester) in Marketing, Business, Communications, or anything where you've shown you can write and think really. • You live on social media and have an instinct for what makes a post stop a thumb. • Strong written English. Comfortable drafting a cold email that doesn't sound like a cold email. • Organized to a fault: you follow up, you close loops, you don't drop balls. • Curious about AI. You don't need to be technical, but you should be excited to make AI tools part of your daily workflow. • Comfortable with public speaking and meeting new POCs every day! • Arabic fluency is a must • Prior internship experience, and a personal social presence you've grown would be a bonus. What You'll Get • A seat inside a boutique consultancy led by ex-Uber, Noon, Swvl, Botim that services the region's top startups & Scale Ups: exposure most fresh grads don't see for years. • Direct mentorship from senior partners. No layers, no middle managers. • Three industry certifications (Bloomreach, Amplitude, Adjust) on us. • A paid monthly stipend. • A clear path to a full-time offer for the right person. Show more Show less