Chili Internship Program – Sales & Business Development

Chili Internship Program – Sales & Business Development

Where strategy, numbers, communication, and global business come together to drive digital growth.

Chili is looking for ambitious students who want to develop practical experience in sales, marketing strategy, and international business development.

This internship goes beyond traditional prospecting. Interns will learn how to understand a prospective client’s business, translate commercial objectives into measurable marketing goals, and help build strategies supported by data.

One of the most important skills developed throughout the program will be reverse engineering the goal: starting with the result a company wants to achieve and working backwards to identify the audience, channels, investment, conversion rates, and actions required to reach it.

Interns will also gain exposure to international teams, companies, and markets, developing a broader understanding of how businesses approach marketing and growth across different countries.

Why Join the Chili Internship Program?

• Gain hands-on experience in sales outreach, lead generation, commercial research, and proposal development.
• Learn how to build a marketing strategy around a prospective client’s business goals.
• Understand marketing through numbers, including revenue targets, conversion rates, acquisition costs, lead volumes, and return on investment.
• Develop the ability to reverse engineer commercial goals into clear marketing actions and performance targets.
• Learn how a performance-driven digital marketing agency grows through commercial strategy.
• Work alongside international teams and gain exposure to clients and companies from different markets.
• Build practical knowledge of digital marketing services, including SEO, paid media, content, CRO, analytics, and automation.
• Develop skills for future roles such as Sales Executive, Business Development Manager, Commercial Strategist, Account Strategist, or Growth Consultant.
• Be part of a collaborative and diverse team that values initiative, curiosity, bold ideas, and continuous learning.

Program Overview

Duration: Up to two years, with the possibility of a full-time position
Workload: Six hours per day
Openings: Two positions
Start date: To be confirmed
Location: On-site – São Paulo

What You’ll Learn and Do

• Research prospective clients, their industries, competitors, target audiences, and business models.
• Identify the commercial objectives, challenges, and growth opportunities of potential clients.
• Learn how to ask strategic questions that uncover a company’s real goals, priorities, urgency, and investment expectations.
• Help build marketing strategies tailored to each prospective client’s commercial objectives.
• Use data to calculate the leads, sales, conversion rates, traffic, and investment required to achieve a client’s goals.
• Reverse engineer revenue and growth targets into measurable marketing strategies.
• Conduct outreach and prospecting activities to generate and qualify new business opportunities.
• Support the preparation of sales decks, proposals, presentations, business cases, and marketing recommendations.
• Participate in discovery meetings, internal strategy sessions, and commercial presentations.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, client services, and specialist teams to develop relevant solutions for prospective clients.
• Research and analyze markets, industries, competitors, and emerging business opportunities.
• Assist in building client qualification processes, sales reports, and commercial performance dashboards.
• Learn to use CRM, prospecting, data analysis, and sales automation tools to manage opportunities and track performance.
• Gain exposure to international teams, companies, clients, and commercial practices.

What We’re Looking For

• Students in their second year of university or later, studying Marketing, Business Administration, International Relations, Economics, Engineering, Communications, or a related field.
• Genuine interest in sales, marketing, business strategy, and company growth.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with numbers.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Curiosity about how companies make money and how marketing contributes to commercial results.
• Ability to think logically, ask good questions, and approach problems strategically.
• Organized, proactive, responsible, and detail-oriented.
• Willingness to learn, receive feedback, and take ownership of assigned activities.
• Fluent communication skills in English.
• Spanish communication skills are a strong advantage.
• Ambition to build a career in the commercial, strategic, or growth side of digital business.

What Success Looks Like

Successful interns will gradually learn how to:

• Understand a prospective client’s business model and commercial objectives.
• Explain marketing recommendations using data rather than assumptions.
• Build a basic marketing strategy connected to measurable business results.
• Reverse engineer a revenue target into the traffic, leads, opportunities, and sales required to achieve it.
• Communicate confidently with internal teams and prospective clients.
• Manage prospecting and sales activities consistently through the company’s systems.
• Contribute meaningfully to proposals, presentations, and commercial strategy discussions.
• Demonstrate the potential to progress into a permanent sales, business development, or strategy role at Chili.

Selection Process

1. Resume screening
2. Online assessments, including logic and a practical business task
3. Video presentation
4. On-site group activity with the Chili team
5. Final interview with Chili’s founders