Large Merchant Sales Intern

Job Summary

The role of the Large Merchant Sales Intern is to assist the team in selling PayPal’s various payment products to the largest merchants.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Support the Sales team in driving strategic initiatives, optimizing processes, resolving challenges, and identifying growth opportunities.
• Conduct industry and market research to identify new business opportunities and support the development of initiatives that enhance portfolio growth, with specific focus on Travel, Groceries and High-Risk verticals.
• Translate business questions into data analyses, providing actionable insights to inform decision-making and growth strategies.
• Deliver regular reporting and communications, including contributions to newsletters and performance updates, leveraging key metrics and visualizations.
• Prepare materials and data for client presentations, meetings, and business cases to support commercial discussions.
• Facilitate merchant onboarding in collaboration with internal stakeholders (Marketing, Integration, Operations, etc.), ensuring smooth processes and accurate documentation.
• Maintain sales pipeline integrity through effective use of Salesforce and other business tools.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Marketing, Legal, Finance, and Strategy, to design and deliver new verticals and expansion opportunities.
• Communicate insights and results clearly through impactful data visualization and presentations.

What you need to bring

• Be hungry to learn and be challenged, creative, reliable, energetic, results focused with a can-do attitude.
• Knowledge of payments processing, retail and e-commerce is preferable.
• Strong organizational skills, being able to work within a defined sales process and have effective time management.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills. Proficiency in MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and very strong in Excel.
• Ability to work productively in a fast-paced environment while having good attention to detail.
• Good team player with a collaborative approach to work and able to create quality relationships quickly, while also working well independently and coping with ambiguity.
• Good sense of initiative, self-motivation and willingness to learn.
• English and German proficiency.
• Fluent English and German is required for the role.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications

Internship Duration – 6 months, fulltime

Internship location – Berlin, Germany

Start Date: 6 July 2026.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at