Business Development and Founder’s Office Intern

Aspirock; Dubai; On-site; AED 17,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspirock, Dubai-based provider of Employer of Record and contractor payroll services, is offering a direct-entry internship for graduates or students. You’ll report to a company director, with the CEO involved in business development, gaining hands-on experience without layers of management.

The role splits between business development and supporting the director across marketing, tech tools, research and admin.

Responsibilities

• Business development: the core of the job (around two thirds of your time)
• Build target lists of international companies and recruitment agencies hiring into our markets
• Qualify leads before they go into the pipeline
• Run outreach sequences on LinkedIn and email. Track every response in the pipeline
• Book meetings for the directors and keep the pipeline current
• Support the director across the business (the rest of your time)
• Marketing: drafting LinkedIn posts, producing content, updating the website, SEO tasks
• Tech: setting up and testing tools, cleaning CRM data, building AI workflows
• Research: markets, sectors, competitors and prospects
• Preparation for client meetings, events and proposals
• General admin that keeps things moving
• Some of this is grunt work. It’s also the fastest way to learn how the whole business runs.

Job description

Aspirock 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 role

This 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 markets

Qualify leads before they go into the pipeline

Run outreach sequences on LinkedIn and email. Track every response in the pipeline

Book meetings for the directors and keep the pipeline current

We’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 tasks

Tech: setting up and testing tools, cleaning CRM data, building AI workflows

Research: markets, sectors, competitors and prospects

Preparation for client meetings, events and proposals

General admin that keeps things moving

Some of this is grunt work. It’s also the fastest way to learn how the whole business runs.

Where it can lead

If 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.

Profile

• Dubai‑based or relocating
• Currently studying, on a placement year or graduated within the last 12 months
• Tech‑native: comfortable with AI tools, quick to pick up new software and keen to use both to work smarter
• Organised: you can keep several threads moving without being chased
• Comfortable switching between tasks and working from a rough brief
• Self‑directed and reliable. We provide the system; you run it
• Personality and a point of view. We want someone we’ll enjoy working with
• Interested in B2B sales, growth or international business as a career

Nice to have

• Some marketing, content or no‑code experience

Compensation: Aligned with experience. Happy to discuss in conversation