Sales Intern
at SurveyMonkey
Ottawa, Canada
SurveyMonkey is the world’s most popular platform for surveys and forms, built for business—loved by users. We combine powerful capabilities with intuitive design, effectively serving every use case, from customer experience to employee engagement, market research to payment and registration forms. With built-in research expertise and AI-powered technology, it’s like having a team of expert researchers at your fingertips.
Trusted by millions—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—SurveyMonkey helps teams gather insights and information that inspire better decisions, create experiences people love, and drive business growth. Discover how at surveymonkey.com.
What we’re looking for
As a Sales intern you will play a critical role in growing our business, you’ll join a collaborative, tech-forward sales team at the heart of our GTM (Go-To-Market) strategy. We are hiring for this role because our platform is scaling rapidly, and we need a sharp, agile thinker to help optimize our lead-generation engine and bridge the gap between marketing interest and closed-won deals. This is a premier opportunity to master the modern SaaS tech stack: from Gong to ZoomInfo all while playing a tangible role in building the outreach playbooks that will define our next phase of hyper-growth.
What you’ll be working on
- Architecting the Outreach Pipeline: You will identify and build high-intent prospect lists, executing sophisticated multi-channel outbound sequences (email and phone) to engage C-suite executives at leading IT tech firms.
- Driving Strategic Growth: You’ll be responsible for generating high-quality qualified leads and securing discovery meetings, directly fueling the sales team’s ability to hit aggressive revenue targets.
- Evangelizing the Solution: You will act as the first point of contact for our brand, delivering high-level product narratives that articulate our SaaS value proposition to sophisticated technical stakeholders.
- Optimizing the Sales Stack: You will manage outreach data and prospecting status within Salesforce, ensuring our "Go-to-Market" engine stays clean, organized, and ready for scale.
- Market Intelligence & Analysis: You’ll analyze prospect feedback and industry trends to help the broader team refine our messaging and improve the efficiency of our business development strategy.
We’d love to hear from people with
- Academic Foundation: Actively pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics, Communications, or a related field.
- Strategic Research Skills: Demonstrated ability to perform deep-dive market research and identify high-value stakeholders within complex organizational structures, specifically within the IT or Software sectors.
- Data Systems Experience: Prior exposure to Salesforce or an equivalent CRM, with a foundational understanding of data integrity, lead lifecycle stages, and pipeline management.
- Value-Based Messaging: Experience (academic or professional) in drafting targeted, multi-touch outreach that identifies specific business "pain points" and maps them to technical software solutions.
- Resilience & Goal Orientation: A proven track record of meeting or exceeding targets in high-pressure environments—whether in previous internships, competitive sports, or leadership roles.
The hourly pay provided for this position is CAD $35.00 / hour depending on geographic market and assuming a full-time schedule. Actual hourly pay is based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, education or training, skills, and experience.
This opening is for an existing vacancy.
SurveyMonkey believes in-person collaboration is valuable for building relationships, fostering community, and enhancing our speed and execution in problem-solving and decision-making. As such, you will be required to work from a SurveyMonkey office up to 1 day per week.
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Why SurveyMonkey? We’re glad you asked
At SurveyMonkey, curiosity powers everything we do. We’re a global company where people from all backgrounds can make an impact, build meaningful connections, and grow their careers. Our teams work in a flexible, hybrid environment with thoughtfully designed offices and programs like the CHOICE Fund to help employees thrive in work and life.
We’ve been trusted by organizations for over 25 years, and we’re just getting started. Our milestones include celebrating a quarter-century of curiosity with 25 acts of giving, opening new hubs in Costa Rica and India, crossing the threshold of 100 billion questions answered, and earning recognition as one of the Most Inspiring Workplaces across North America and Asia.
We live our company values—like championing inclusion and making it happen—by embedding them into how we hire, collaborate, and grow. They help shape everything from our culture to our business decisions. Come join us and see where your curiosity can take you.
Our commitment to an inclusive workplace
SurveyMonkey is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
Your data
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