Growth Intern/Co-op - 2026 Fall

IN PERSON IN OUR KITCHENER OFFICE STARTING SEPT 2026. ONLY APPLY IF YOU CAN WORK LEGALLY IN CANADA.

The Role

Clearline is looking for a Growth Intern/Co-op who wants to join the go-to-market engine of a fast-moving startup.

Clearline helps automotive dealerships capture, route, and convert every customer interaction across sales and service—calls, texts, web leads, appointments, and follow-up. We work with dealership teams where a missed call or stale lead directly means lost revenue.

You’ll work closely with the founders and go-to-market team on the work that actually creates pipeline: finding the right dealerships, researching accounts, writing outbound, supporting campaigns, learning from real customer conversations, and improving the systems behind it.

This is not a “make social posts and sit in meetings” internship. You’ll be expected to take ownership, move quickly, and contribute to revenue-generating work.

What You’ll Do

Run growth experiments: Test new audiences, events, channels, offers, and outbound workflows. Track what is working, what is not, and turn that into the next iteration.

Build pipeline: Research and identify dealership groups, GMs, sales leaders, service leaders, and other buyers who fit Clearline’s ideal customer profile.

Turn research into insight: Learn how dealerships manage calls, leads, appointments, BDC teams, service overflow, and follow-up—then use those insights to improve targeting and messaging.

Create useful content: Help turn customer conversations, market observations, product launches, and dealership pain points into outbound assets, founder content, case studies, and website copy.

Work close to the customer: Sit in on dealership calls and demos. Hear objections directly and help improve how Clearline communicates its value.

Own outcomes: You will not just complete tasks. You’ll be expected to understand the goal, measure the result, and improve the work.

What We’re Looking For

• Available to work in person from our Kitchener office for the full [4]-month co-op/intern term.
• Enrolled in a business, commerce, CS or related undergraduate program. Relevant experience matters more than your exact program.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration. You don’t need a perfect brief to get started.
• Worked for a fast growing startup previously
• Willing to talk to customers, hear direct feedback, and use it to improve your work.
• A bias for action: you take ownership, move quickly, and care about results.

Nice to Have

• Previous experience in sales, marketing, business development, startups, consulting, recruiting, or customer-facing work.
• Familiarity with CRM tools, outbound tools, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Apollo, HubSpot, Clay, or similar platforms.
• Experience writing cold email, LinkedIn outreach, social content, or customer research.
• Interest in AI, workflow automation, automotive retail, or B2B SaaS.
• A portfolio, personal project, newsletter, campus initiative, side business, or other proof that you’ve made something happen.

What You’ll Get

• Real ownership over work tied directly to pipeline and revenue.
• Exposure to the full startup growth loop: positioning, prospecting, outbound, sales calls, customer feedback, onboarding, and retention.
• Direct feedback and mentorship from the founders.
• The chance to build practical skills that transfer to founding a company, joining an early-stage startup, or future roles in growth, sales, product, and go-to-market.