Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Business development roles remain a core entry point into B2B SaaS because they sit where product positioning, pipeline creation, and market segmentation meet. This internship is anchored in the earliest stages of the revenue engine—lead enrichment, account research, and first-touch outreach—work that directly reflects how SaaS companies operationalize go-to-market motions through systems like Salesforce and event-driven targeting.
For a SaaS career, the value is in learning the mechanics behind repeatable growth. Exposure to data hygiene, qualification, and pre-demo research builds an understanding of how teams translate intent signals into actionable opportunities, and how clean CRM inputs influence forecasting and handoffs to Account Executives. These fundamentals transfer well across SaaS roles in sales development, revenue operations, and customer-facing functions where process discipline and market insight compound over time.
This role tends to suit early-career professionals who prefer structured, detail-oriented work with clear outputs, while also wanting proximity to live sales conversations. It fits someone curious about how executives evaluate software purchases and comfortable balancing independent research with collaboration across go-to-market stakeholders in an office-based, hybrid rhythm.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Are you ready to play a key role in driving revenue growth within our Sales team?
Are you driven, meticulous, and ready to dive into the fast-paced world of B2B SaaS sales? Coveo is looking for a Business Development intern. Your mission? Collaborate with our Go-to-Market teams to enrich leads lists, conduct strategic account research, and ensure integrity of our data systems.
The Business Development team is often the first point of contact with our potential clients. As an intern, you will be at the heart of the action, engaging executives in our target market, qualifying opportunities, and helping guide them throughout our sales cycle.
Your impact, day to day:
Enrich leads identified by the team, ensuring the information is up-to-date in our system.
Review leads list for upcoming events, ensuring top accounts are identified for our Account Executive teams.
Listen in on cold calls, learning the best practices for team members.
Conduct research for upcoming demos to ensure that the team has the most up-to-date information about the prospect. Our strategy to gain prospective clients at Coveo is a proactive one!
Ensure data integrity in Salesforce, cleaning up duplicates and enforcing accuracy, data driven decisions are key at Coveo.
The Essentials:
You are currently studying in a Bachelors program in Montréal.
You are able to work from our office 3 days a week. Our hybrid work model offers flexibility, you can benefit from face-to-face learning from your team on office days while home days allow you to focus and complete complex work.
You are legally entitled to work full-time in Canada for the duration of the 15 week internship.
Think you’ve got what it takes? Let’s see!
You are driven by the opportunity to empower people and enhance processes.
You thrive in a dynamic and highly collaborative environment.
You are keen to understand and explain complex concepts to clients across the world.
You have strong organization and prioritization skills.
You take ownership of your tasks.
You have participated in case competitions, you excel at public speaking.
Join the Coveolife!
You don’t need to check every single box; passion goes a long way and we appreciate that skills are transferable.
Send us your application, we want to hear from you!
We encourage all candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background.
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