Sales Development Intern - Learn Prospecting & Demos (Hybrid)

KnowBe4; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-wide bonuses

Employee referral bonuses

Adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Certification reimbursement

Certification completion bonuses

Job summary

KnowBe4 is seeking a Sales Development Representative Intern to join our Washington DC area team. You will learn prospecting, qualify leads, and support demo bookings while working with Account Executives to drive business growth.

The internship offers access to executive speakers, training, onboarding, and hands-on experience in a fast-paced security awareness sales environment. This program runs January 25, 2027 through April 16, 2027 (12 weeks) in Arlington, VA, with in-office work four days

Qualifications

• Strong Communication and Empathy
• Confident and Positive
• Resilient and Adaptable
• Competitiveness and Tenacity

Responsibilities

• Map company structure and verify their information to find workable accounts
• Map and identify appropriate contacts from the workable accounts
• Learn critical elements of prospecting conversations in preparation for qualification calls
• Role-play to learn conversation best practices, mirroring, labeling, and objection-handling techniques
• Conduct calls and emails to drive solid demo bookings
• Schedule and hand-off demo ready lead to quota carrying Sales Representatives
• Learn how to organize, clean, prospect, and maintain our CRM database
• Shadow sales development representatives with prospective customers to grow in your conversation knowledge, understanding and skills
• Listen to demos of sales calls from Account Executives of varying levels of tenure
• Work with cross-functional sales teams to understand the KnowBe4 business model better

Skills

Strong communication

Empathy

Resilient

Tenacity

Education

Junior or Senior candidate

Hospitality/Communications/Customer Service/Marketing/Business Admin degree

Job description

KnowBe4 is seeking a Sales Development Representative Intern to join our Washington DC area team. You will learn prospecting, qualify leads, and support demo bookings while working with Account Executives to drive business growth.

The internship offers access to executive speakers, training, onboarding, and hands-on experience in a fast-paced security awareness sales environment. This program runs January 25, 2027 through April 16, 2027 (12 weeks) in Arlington, VA, with in-office work four days