Business Development Intern (US) - Summer 2026

Who We Are

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.

From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

Location & Flexibility

Our interns are integral parts of our teams at TELUS Digital. To help retain our deep culture of collaboration, our interns maintain an in-office presence in a hybrid capacity (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays). This role can be located in Charlottesville, VA or Durham, NC.

The Opportunity

Our Business Development & Commercial Strategy organization rallies around three distinct areas in the client journey map: Prospecting, Pursuit, and Expansion. A few responsibilities across our team include: identifying new relationships and digital opportunities across multiple verticals, nurturing ongoing relationships with client partners, writing proposals, pitching our services to prospective clients, helping to shape the client's digital ecosystem, and more. Our summer program gives interns the chance to innovate by contributing ideas and adding a new perspective to meaningful client projects. To make sure you’re advancing in your craft, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn from fellow team members by discussing the latest trends in tech or gaining insights about creative methods of client engagement.

Not only that, but you’ll have snacks galore, and plenty of chances to socialize with your fellow interns — including fun outings during work hours. We’ll have you with us full-time (think 40 hours a week for approx. 11 weeks) and yes, it is definitely paid. Not a bad gig, right?

We understand our responsibility to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive place within the tech industry, while pushing to make our industry more representative. Because of this responsibility, we need candidates who value diversity and inclusion through their work, team collaboration, or involvement in student organizations.

Your Impact

• Hands-on experience working on client engagements — you'll collaborate with a team to identify opportunities and build digital visions that excite prospective clients and you’ll make technology and product recommendations that map to TELUS Digital’s in-house capabilities
• Work with potential and existing clients to define digital products and develop creative solutions — help frame business needs, user needs, technical needs, and project scope
• Conduct and analyze secondary research, interview users, and collaborate closely with Product Designers, Engineers, and Product Strategists to to ideate, develop comprehensive digital strategies, and establish product concepts on behalf of clients
• Synthesize opportunities and solutions into compelling narratives through storytelling
• Construct an argument for a new digital direction, based on lean research methodologies, customer interviews, or industry and competitive inspiration
• Combine technical plans and creative concepts into written proposals (RFP, etc.) for submission and presentations to C-level Fortune 500 executives
• Contribute to business case modeling and "what would need to be true?" exercises to connect the dots between product vision and business impact

Your Background

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in business or an MBA, and graduating in Fall/Winter 2026 or later
• A couple of years of professional experience working with software, ideally in management consulting or within an agency
• Previous engagements with external clients and stakeholders — including consulting, solutioning, and strategizing
• Dynamic experience and skill making pitches to stakeholders, preferably at the executive level
• You have a genuine enthusiasm and an eye for creativity that helps you craft solutions for brands and clients
• Proactive communicator who drives toward simplicity and clarity in both live and written correspondence
• Applicants must be authorized to work permanently for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time.

P.S. Even if you don’t have expertise in all of the qualifications listed, we value new perspectives and encourage you to apply. We’re committed to building a diverse company that reflects the diversity of our users. If you feel confident about a good amount of the bullet points above, we’ll ramp you up on the rest.

Bonus Points

• You’ve worked in a client services environment (e.g. digital agency, heavy client facing)
• A technical undergraduate degree

Equal Opportunity Employer

At TELUS Digital, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants’ qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.

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