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Learn to sell where it is hardest.

Balanced Designs is an AI consulting company. We help local businesses grow with lead generation, AI automations, and advertising. Our sales team is made up of students, trained in a skill that outlives the job.

Now hiringFall 2026

Sales Development Representative

You visit local businesses in person, talk to owners, and book them into a free Discovery Audit of their online presence. This is not a call center and there is no script reading marathon. You get real conversations with real owners from your first week, and you sit in on the audits and closes for every deal you source.

Hours
Part time, roughly 10 to 15 per week, scheduled by you
Where
In person, on assigned downtown routes across Metro Detroit
Type
Independent contractor, commission based, paid from day one
Who
Students 18 or older with reliable transportation

How the pay works

This role is commission based with no base salary. You earn a percentage of every deal you source that closes, paid when the client's payment clears, and there is a monthly bonus for the top performer on the sales team. You are paid from day one and there is no unpaid trial period. Strong performers are promoted to Senior Representative at a higher commission rate. We walk every candidate through the exact numbers before they sign anything, and you sign a standard independent contractor agreement up front.

Apply by email

Students at partner universities can also apply through Handshake. Send a resume, no cover letter needed.

What you actually leave with.

The commission matters, but the reason to take this job is the experience. Sales is a skill you can carry into any industry, and almost nobody gets to practice it this directly as a student.

Prospecting that is not a phone script

You work an assigned downtown with a route sheet and research we prepare on every business on it. You learn how to open a conversation with a stranger who is busy, which is the hardest and most transferable skill in sales.

Discovery, objections, and the close

You book owners into a free audit of their online presence, then sit in while our founder runs it and closes the deal. You see the whole arc of a sale, from a cold door to a signed client, in weeks rather than years.

CRM discipline

Every conversation gets logged the same day. Employers ask about pipeline hygiene in interviews and most students have never touched a real CRM.

Weekly coaching with the founder

One on one every week on your pitch, your objections, and your follow ups. Strong performers leave with a reference letter and a professional reference they can use for years.

How we work.

Balanced Designs LLC is a small, field-based company. We do not operate a walk-in office, and our registered business address is administrative only. Sales work happens in person at the businesses our representatives visit, spread across downtowns in Metro Detroit. Everything else, including client delivery and team coordination, runs remotely.

Representatives set their own outings around their class schedules. There is no daily door quota, on purpose. What matters is that the doors you open get logged the same day and that every follow up you promise actually happens.

We hire on a rolling basis and expect to open additional sales development positions through the school year. We are not currently hiring for engineering, design, or operations roles. If you want to be considered as those open, send a resume and tell us what you are good at.

Questions, or applying from a university career center?

recruiting@balanced-designs.com

Balanced Designs is an equal opportunity employer. We consider every applicant without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.