Business Development Internship (US or EMEA Market) - English speaker

IMPORTANT: this position is based in our office in Chiasso, Switzerland, five days a week.

Chiasso is 50 minutes from Milan by train or car. The role is open to every qualified applicant, but you need to live in, or be ready to move to, an area you can commute from every day: the provinces of Como, Varese or Milan (Italy), or Switzerland. We support relocation with a budget. The internship starts in January 2027. On site and January are both hard requirements. Please do not apply if you cannot do either.

WHAT YOU WOULD BE SELLING

AI is rewriting the skills every role needs, and large companies have a problem they can no longer postpone: they do not know what their people can actually do. Resumes do not answer that question. Self-assessments answer it badly. Anthropos answers it, with a skills taxonomy of 4,000+ skills across 700+ roles and AI Simulations that verify skills by putting people inside realistic work scenarios instead of quizzes.

Together AI, Italgas and FS Group, the Italian national railway with 80,000 employees, already run on Anthropos. We are scaling in the US and across EMEA at the same time. That is why we are hiring Business Development Representatives now, and that is where you come in.

You will join our BDR team in the Chiasso office and work a named list of target accounts in the US and EMEA: the people who decide how tens of thousands of employees get hired, assessed and developed.

YOU ALREADY USE AI EVERY DAY. THIS ONE IS NOT NEGOTIABLE.

We sell an AI platform to companies that are trying to become AI companies. If you do not use these tools yourself, you cannot have that conversation with a CHRO or a CTO.

We are not asking whether you have heard of ChatGPT. We are asking what you got AI to do for you last week. Strong answers sound like this: you research accounts with Claude or ChatGPT and you know why you picked one over the other, you write and rewrite your own prompts until they work, you automated something boring, you built a small tool or a scraper without knowing how to code, you follow new model releases the way other people follow football.

In your application, tell us the single most useful thing you have made AI do for you. Be specific, screenshots welcome. "I use AI to be more productive" is not an answer.

TASKS

Prospect every day: cold calls, email and personalized messages. This is most of the job. You will do it next to the team and on your own from the first weeks.

Research your accounts properly. Know which initiative is live inside the company (AI transformation, reskilling, hiring), who owns it, and what to say to earn 30 minutes of their time.

Shadow our sales team on cold calls and outbound to learn how to present the platform and how to pick the right organizations.

Learn to demo the product and to explain value and return to a prospect.

Use AI to do more in a day than a BDR could do by hand: research, personalization, list building, follow-up.

Help the team build what does not exist yet: process, monthly reporting, tooling. Find a better way to work and you will be asked to roll it out to everyone.

REQUIREMENTS

In this job your soft skills are 90% of your success. The hard skills we can teach you in a few weeks. These we cannot:

Grit. You will hear no far more often than yes, and your fiftieth call of the day has to sound like your first.

Curiosity about business. You want to understand how a company makes money and what keeps its HR or engineering leader awake.

Clear writing. A BDR's email gets read or deleted in two seconds.

Speed of learning. You ask good questions, take feedback once, and apply it the same day.

Ownership. You see a broken process and fix it instead of working around it.

The hard requirements:

Available to start in January 2027, full time, on site in Chiasso five days a week. We do not accept hybrid or fully remote candidates.

Fluent English. You will spend your day speaking and writing to enterprises in the US and Europe. Other European languages are a plus for the EMEA list.

Valid work permit for Switzerland. Hiring non-EU citizens in Switzerland takes time we cannot currently afford. Not an EU citizen, but sure you are the right person for this role? Write to [email protected] before you apply and tell us why. We do consider strong candidates.

Living within daily commuting distance of Chiasso (Como, Varese or Milan in Italy, or Switzerland), or ready to relocate there. We support relocation with a budget.

A real interest in building a career in tech sales. This is the first step of one, not a line on a CV.

BENEFITS

Six months, and a full-time offer for the top performers at the end of it. We run this program to hire our future account executives, not to staff a season.

Base salary of 1,000 CHF per month plus commissions on every meeting you book. Hit your targets and you reach 1,500 to 1,600 CHF per month during the internship.

A small team of experienced operators who have been building and selling enterprise software together for years. You learn enterprise sales in the same room as the people doing it, not from a PDF playbook.

Enterprise accounts in the US and Europe from your first week. The companies you work on here are the ones that open doors for the rest of your career.

HOW WE HIRE

The first step is not a CV screen. It is an AI Simulation powered by the Anthropos platform: a set of realistic tasks where you show how you think, how you write, and how you handle a prospect. You get immediate and detailed feedback either way, which is more than most companies will ever give you. Score above 80/100 and we will reach out for an interview.