Business Development Intern

Ibotta is seeking a Business Development Intern to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. As a participant in our 2024 Summer Internship, you will have the opportunity to fully integrate with your team to directly contribute to ongoing Ibotta business initiatives. In addition to the daily time with your team, you will participate in ongoing teach outs curated to help build skills essential to transitioning into the workforce and building your career. We are looking for candidates who are eager to learn, excited to work on real-world business challenges, and want to be part of a mission-driven company.

The Business Development team partners with the nation’s leading retailers and publishers to design, launch, and manage digital offer programs on their apps and websites. The Business Development team leads the charge on collaborating with partners to bring Ibotta’s cash back rewards into their own ecosystems while evolving Ibotta from a leading direct-to-consumer brand into a massive performance marketing network that reaches 120 million Americans through leading retailers such as Walmart, Dollar General, and Kroger.

This will be a full-time, 12-week, internship during the summer of 2024. This position is located in Denver, Colorado. Candidates must live in the United States.

Applications will be open September 27 - October 3 and again October 23 - October 29

What you will be doing: 

• Assist with building pitch materials for client meetings including but not limited to executive briefs, Microsoft PowerPoint decks, financial models, and competitive audits

• Conduct market research, analyze industry trends, and ideate on potential business opportunities and threats

• Coordinate cross-functionally to set meetings, gather internal data, and communicate information

• Identify relevant contacts for Business Development team’s outreach

• Report on current program performance by analyzing data sets, identifying trends, and drawing actionable conclusions to drive decision making

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency & A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

• Juniors working towards a bachelor’s degree with a focus in Marketing, Sales, Finance or related field

• Proven ability to think creatively and implement ideas from start to finish

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Hunger to learn and collaborate with your teammates

• Aptitude for a dynamic business environment, adjusting strategies and approaches as needed to meet changing business requirements

• Comfortability working with numbers and applying mathematical concepts to analyze and interpret data accurately

• Proactive motivation to take the initiative in generating ideas, exploring opportunities

• Ability to interact professionally and confidently with various stakeholders, including clients, team members, and external partners

About Us:

Built in Denver, CO, Ibotta, Inc. ("I bought a...") is a free mobile shopping app that gives users cash back on groceries and more. Through our partnerships with brands and retailers like Procter & Gamble, Kraft Heinz, Kellogg, Amazon, Walmart, Target and Uber, we’ve delivered over $1.25B in cumulative cash rewards to our Savers. Guided by our values and our mission to make every purchase rewarding, we come to work energized by the business problems we get to solve, the technology we get to build, and the people we get to innovate (and have fun) with. Ibotta made Inc.’s 2020 list of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the third consecutive year. In 2019, we became the first mobile consumer technology company in Colorado to achieve $1B in valuation.

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• This position is located in Denver, CO and includes competitive pay and housing assistance for out of state students.

• The hourly compensation for this role is: $19.00 per hour worked. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market.

• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard with race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.