At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Your Abroad Adventure Starts in Ireland - Kickstart Your Career in Business Development

At F5, we enable businesses to thrive in the rapidly evolving digital age by providing award-winning, market-leading multi-cloud application services. As part of our continued growth in EMEA, we are looking for a dynamic and highly motivated Italian-speaking Business Development Representative (BDR) intern to join our vibrant and fast-paced team in our office in Cork City Centre, Ireland.

This is a unique opportunity for someone passionate about sales, technology, and cybersecurity to kick-start or advance a rewarding career in tech sales via our established internship program.

Why Join F5?

Build a strong foundation: Start and grow your career with one of the world's leading cybersecurity and technology innovators.
Learn from the best: Gain hands on coaching and mentorship from experienced sales, marketing, and business leaders across EMEA who will help guide you during your internship journey.
Enhance your skillset: Develop both outbound and inbound sales techniques and gain hands-on experience using best in class prospecting tools, sales practices and methodologies such as MEDDPICC.
Collaborate with a diverse team: Work alongside a highly motivated, inclusive, and welcoming team passionate about technology, innovation, and continuous learning.
Expand your network: Build connections with F5 employees and teams across the EMEA region.
Thrive in flexibility: Benefit from a hybrid working model, the highlight of which is the in-person time spent collaborating and learning from the team in our Cork office.

What You’ll Do in This Role?

As a Business Development Representative (Italian Speaking) intern, you will aim to build the key skills needed to establish yourself as a critical part in driving F5’s future business growth across the EMEA region. You will achieve this by gaining direct exposure to both Inbound and Outbound Business Development sales motions while also closely working with the EMEA sales and marketing teams to help you understand and execute against our strategic goals. You’ll work on dedicated projects that directly support the sales team while learning key aspects of the F5 sales process and making meaningful contributions to driving revenue and expanding our sales pipeline.

Your Typical Day May Involve:

Lead Generation & Prospecting: Collaborating with the sales and marketing teams to learn how to identify and engage with high-potential prospects, helping to form strong leads across the Italian-speaking market.
Customer Engagement & Outreach: Build core skills and confidence in delivering tailored outreach materials, learning to articulate the F5 value propositions, and contributing to meaningful conversations with prospective customers.
Sales Technology Mastery: Learn how to leverage state-of-the-art prospecting tools (such as Outreach, LinkedIn and Salesforce) and how to help generate unique sales insights by ensuring data accuracy.
Sales Technique Development: Shadow and partner with experienced BDRs and F5 Account Managers to master communication strategies, prospecting approaches, and creative problem-solving for both inbound and outbound outreach.
Hands-On Coaching: Be giving the opportunity to put in practice what you have learned by working on inbound leads and key outbound accounts to refine your skills that enable continuous coaching and learning.
Bespoke Projects and Workshops: Participate in projects, workshops, training sessions, and research initiatives built uniquely for you to help keep you informed on key F5 sales initiatives, cybersecurity trends and innovations in digital sales.
Team Contribution & Innovations: Collaborate with team members and internal EMEA departments to help build and optimize future sales development process, contribute feedback, and introduce innovative strategies identified throughout your shadowing and learning.

What We’re Looking For?

We are seeking a driven and enthusiastic individual eager to embrace the fast-paced and rewarding world of tech sales. If you meet the following, we’d love to hear from you:

Fluent in Italian with strong written and verbal communication skills.
Strong English proficiency is advantageous for working across EMEA.
In the final year of study or have recently completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree (within 12 months prior to start date)
Desire to build a long-term career in tech sales, business development, and cybersecurity.
Keen to use and further grow your communication skills and combine these with a commercial and relationship building role.
Motivated and team-oriented with a strong work ethic and commitment to personal growth.
Adaptable and resilient in high-energy, fast-paced environments.

Why You’ll Love Working at F5?

Future Career Opportunities: Explore the potential for a permanent position post-program, with a dedicated pathway to exciting roles within our EMEA Business Development team upon successful completion of your internship or program duration.
Professional Skill Development: Gain sought-after, real-world experience in sales development techniques, including prospect communication and inbound/outbound strategies.
Exposure to Industry Innovators: Learn about the latest in cybersecurity and digital selling while benefiting from the expertise of our EMEA sales leadership team.
Comprehensive Training & Mentorship: Participate in workshops, onboarding programs, and guidance sessions with mentors to support your growth.
Collaborate on EMEA Projects: Work with other team members and interns on exciting EMEA-wide initiatives, showcasing your learnings and creative ideas to EMEA senior leadership.
Competitive Perks and Benefits: Recharge with quarterly “Wellness Weekends” (an additional two days off per quarter) and enjoy a balanced work environment. Benefits also include annual flexible wellness allowance, health insurance and pension.

Application Details:

This is a paid, full-time position based out of our office in Cork City, Ireland, with a 12-month duration starting in October 2026. The role will report into our Senior Manager for EMEA Business Development and will offer hybrid working flexibility and the opportunity to learn directly under the guidance of EMEA senior sales leadership.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.

Business Development Intern (Italian Speaker)

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