Sales And Marketing Specialist Intern

About the role

Spark is an early-stage startup building a voice-first AI desk robot for knowledge workers. Before we build further, we need to validate that real people actually want this — and that means talking to them directly. We're hiring a Market Research Intern to find, recruit, and interview potential users to help us understand their daily habits, pain points, and whether Spark solves a real problem.

This is hands-on, conversation-based research — not surveys or desk research. You'll be reaching out to strangers online, getting them on calls, and asking good questions.

What you'll do

• Find and reach out to potential users across Reddit, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Slack/Discord communities, and our existing waitlist
• Recruit 15-20+ people per week for short (15-20 min) interview calls
• Conduct interviews using a provided script — focused on understanding how people currently plan their day, manage tasks, and what tools they use
• Take structured notes and help identify patterns/themes across interviews
• Track all outreach and interview status in a simple spreadsheet
• Share weekly summaries of findings with the founder

What we're looking for

• Comfortable messaging and talking to strangers online — confident but not pushy
• Genuinely curious — more interested in listening than pitching
• Organized — can manage outreach as a consistent process, not random one-offs
• Strong written communication (for outreach messages) and verbal communication (for interviews)
• Any degree, any background — what matters is the skill, not the major

What success looks like

By the end of [4-6 weeks], we'll have 15-30 completed interviews with our target users, clear documented insights from each, and a much stronger sense of whether people want Spark, what they'd actually pay, and what would make them say no.

To apply

Fill out this short application form: https://forms.gle/pZmAHXbHffhtVvQn7

Send us 2-3 sentences you'd use to message a stranger online to convince them to join a 15-minute call about a productivity product. We're looking for how you communicate, not a perfect pitch.