Sales Intern

OCUS; Paris; Sur place; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

OCUS is seeking a Sales Representative in Paris to help launch Ocus Viral, a new product aimed at improving restaurant social media. You will engage with restaurant owners, managing the entire sales process and crafting effective strategies.

Candidates should be autonomous, resilient, and fluent in French and English. An understanding of the Paris restaurant scene is essential. This role offers the opportunity to learn how startups operate from sales to product development.

Qualifications

• Genuine interest in developing sales skills.
• Experience in selling or fundraising.
• Ability to manage rejection effectively.
• Self-organized, able to find leads independently.
• Interest in food, restaurants, or social media.
• Fluency in French and English for communication.
• Experience in face-to-face selling.
• Familiarity with the Paris restaurant market.
• Experience in startups or entrepreneurship.

Responsabilités

• Meet and close restaurant owners/managers across Paris.
• Run the full sales cycle from start to finish.
• Build the sales playbook and identify successful strategies.
• Track progress and optimize sales approaches.
• Become an expert in restaurant social media issues.
• Provide feedback to the team on restaurant needs.
• Collaborate with Product and Account Managers.

Connaissances

Sales expertise

Persuasion skills

Resilience

Autonomy

Curiosity about food and restaurants

Fluent in French

Fluent in English

Knowledge of Paris restaurant scene

Field selling experience

Description du poste

Company Overview

OCUS is the world leader in visual content for restaurants. We power the imagery operations of world leaders like DoorDash, Uber Eats or Just Eat Takeaway, and millions of restaurants across 40+ countries. €20M ARR. Profitable. 40 people. 10 years of building the infrastructure that makes restaurants look their best online.

Role Overview

Now we’re launching something new. Ocus Viral is our new product, an autonomous Viral Content Agent for restaurant brands. Real creators shoot on‑site, AI handles editing, trend‑matching, and publishing. Every location, every day, at a fraction of agency cost. We’re building a field sales team in Paris to bring Ocus Viral directly to restaurants. That’s where you come in.

A quick word before the mission. Sales is the #1 skill of every great entrepreneur. It’s the ability to walk into a room, understand someone’s problem, and answer it with a solution, face to face. This is hardly automatable. AI won’t replace the person who earns trust across a table. If you want to build companies one day, this is where you learn the foundation.

Responsibilities

• Meet restaurant owners and managers across Paris and close them—independents and small groups (1‑10 locations) who know their social media is broken but don’t know how to fix it. How you get in front of them is up to you: walk‑ins, calls, LinkedIn, networking, referrals, whatever works. The goal is signed contracts.
• Run the full sales cycle from first conversation to signed deal. Prospecting, pitching, handling objections, closing, and onboarding. You own the entire process.
• Build the sales playbook. This is a new channel for OCUS, there’s no established script. Identify neighborhoods with the most potential, craft resonant pitches, discover objections that kill the deal, test, learn, and document what works so the next person can build on it.
• Track your numbers and optimize. Record pitches made, demos given, deals closed. Set weekly targets with the team and iterate on your approach based on real data.
• Become an expert on restaurant social media. Understand structural problems restaurants face, frequency, brand consistency, trend speed, production cost, local activation, and articulate how Ocus Viral solves them in 30 seconds.
• Feed field intelligence back to the team. Relay what restaurant owners are actually saying, what they care about, and any surprises you encounter. Your insights directly shape how we build the product and go to market.
• Work alongside PMs, AMs, and the tech team. Debrief with Product Managers on restaurant needs, sync with Account Managers on onboarding, and collaborate with the tech team on product evolution. You’ll learn how a startup operates end‑to‑end, not just the sales slice.

Qualifications

• You genuinely want to sell and see sales as a craft worth mastering.
• You enjoy talking to people and persuading them; you have experience selling side hustles, fundraising, market stalls or student projects.
• You’re resilient. Rejection is part of the job and you process it fast, moving on to the next conversation.
• You’re autonomous and resourceful. You organize your own days, find your own leads, and figure things out. Extreme agency is the #1 trait we hire at OCUS.
• You’re curious about food, restaurants, or social media; genuine interest makes a real difference in the field.
• You speak French fluently (pitching restaurant owners in Paris) and English fluently (OCUS operates internally in English).
• You have face‑to‑face or field selling experience.
• You know the Paris restaurant scene, neighborhoods, trends, and who’s growing.
• You’ve worked in a startup or built something yourself.