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.

Interview Process

Process overview

We want to keep the interview process very streamlined and easy. There are only 2 steps in the process.

1. Intro + initial screen (20 mins)

We’ll do a screening call to understand your background and your fit for the role.

Based on how well you do at this stage, you’ll be invited to the next round.

2. Onsite interview (60 mins)

We’ll do an in-person interview to cover how you think. We’ll present a problem and see how you approach it.

3. Offer

If the technical interview goes well, you’ll get an offer in less than 24 hours after our last interview in the round.