Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LvlUp Ventures is seeking an entrepreneurial and data-driven Growth & Outbound Intern or Associate to expand the company’s reach across startups, investors, corporate partners, sponsors, and strategic relationships. The role focuses on high-volume cold outreach, prospecting, campaign experimentation, performance tracking, and building scalable outbound and distribution systems.
Responsibilities
- Build and execute high-volume, targeted cold email campaigns
- Run outbound through LinkedIn, including prospecting, messaging, follow-ups, and relationship development
- Source startups for LvlUp’s funds, events, accelerators, and ecosystem initiatives
- Identify and reach potential corporate partners, sponsors, investors, strategic partners, and ecosystem organizations
- Build targeted prospect lists using databases, research, LinkedIn, communities, directories, and other sources
- Write and continuously improve outreach messaging, subject lines, sequences, hooks, and calls-to-action
- Test different audiences, messaging, cadences, channels, and offers
- Track response rates, meetings, applications, conversions, and other outcomes
- Use data to identify what is working and rapidly scale winning approaches
- Build repeatable outbound systems including and beyond cold email and linkedin, workflows, playbooks, and automation
- New cold email strategies
- Creative LinkedIn outreach
- Community and group outreach
- Founder and investor databases
- Referral and introduction loops
- Partnerships that unlock distribution
- Newsletter and media outreach
- University, accelerator, and ecosystem relationships
- Events and attendee targeting
- AI-powered prospecting and personalization
- New databases, scraping approaches, and sourcing tools
- Creative campaigns that generate inbound interest
- Entirely new channels we are not currently using
- Test quickly, measure results, and turn successful experiments into scalable systems
- Supporting outreach for investment sourcing, partnerships, events, ecosystem initiatives, corporate relationships, and new strategic projects
Skills
- Extremely comfortable with cold outreach
- Strong at cold email and written communication
- Comfortable prospecting and messaging on LinkedIn
- Highly resourceful and internet-savvy
- Creative about finding and reaching people
- Data-driven and focused on conversion
- Fast-moving and willing to test constantly
- Comfortable learning CRMs, outbound platforms, databases, AI tools, and automation software
- Organized enough to manage large prospect lists and multiple campaigns
- Entrepreneurial and capable of working with limited hand-holding
- Experience in sales, business development, growth, lead generation, partnerships, startups, or venture capital is helpful
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Potential performance-based upside
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