Business Development and Founder’s Office Intern

Dubai | 6 months minimumAbout AspirockAspirock provides Employer of Record and contractor payroll services across 70+ countries, with deep specialism in the GCC. We run six offices across Ireland, the United States, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Australia. Our clients are international companies and recruitment agencies placing staff into markets where they don’t have a local presence.The business is founder-led, profitable and at an inflection point. We’re scaling across markets and building out our tech and operations. The next 12 to 24 months are the most active period in the company’s history. We want sharp people around us as we do it.The roleThis role suits someone who’s looked at the standard internship options and wants something more direct. You’ll report directly to a company director, with the CEO involved on business development. There’s no layer of middle management, no rotational scheme and no waiting your turn. What you learn here in six months would take two years inside a larger firm.We’re open to part-time alongside studies, sandwich-year placements or full-time fixed-term for recent graduates.The role has two parts.Business development: the core of the job (around two thirds of your time)Your core measure is qualified meetings booked with potential clients.Build target lists of international companies and recruitment agencies hiring into our marketsQualify leads before they go into the pipelineRun outreach sequences on LinkedIn and email. Track every response in the pipelineBook meetings for the directors and keep the pipeline currentWe’ve built the tools and playbooks to run this efficiently. What works this quarter won’t be exactly what we do in six months, so how you approach it is yours to improve.Supporting the director across the business (the rest of your time)The director you report to runs several parts of the business at once. You’ll take work off their plate wherever it’s most needed that week, for example:Marketing: drafting LinkedIn posts, producing content, updating the website, SEO tasksTech: setting up and testing tools, cleaning CRM data, building AI workflowsResearch: markets, sectors, competitors and prospectsPreparation for client meetings, events and proposalsGeneral admin that keeps things movingSome of this is grunt work. It’s also the fastest way to learn how the whole business runs.Where it can leadIf you hit the BD bar, expect to be in the room on strategy calls, contributing to service decisions, testing new ideas and shaping how the business grows. Growth strategy, partnerships, new sectors and markets, marketing angles and the tech around the pipeline are all open to good ideas.ProfileDubai-based or relocatingCurrently studying, on a placement year or graduated within the last 12 monthsStrong written EnglishTech-native: comfortable with AI tools, quick to pick up new software and keen to use both to work smarterOrganised: you can keep several threads moving without being chasedComfortable switching between tasks and working from a rough briefSelf-directed and reliable. We provide the system; you run itPersonality and a point of view. We want someone we’ll enjoy working withInterested in B2B sales, growth or international business as a careerNice to haveSome marketing, content or no-code experienceHow to applyEmail george@aspirock.com with your CV and a short note (3 to 5 lines) covering:Why this role and why AspirockSomething you’ve done, built, won or pulled off that you’re proud ofOne task you’d do faster or better with AI: what it is and how you’d do itYour earliest start dateCompensation: Aligned with experience. Happy to discuss in conversation