National Sales Support Internship

Location: Schaumburg, IL

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

Bring your talent and eagerness to learn to Paylocity, where you’ll discover the skills needed to launch your career! 

Benefit from award-winning training and one-on-one coaching as you play a key role Paylocity’s future with an early careers position. 

Explore how you can go from the classroom to the conference room with internships and new-grad programs at one of Glassdoor's Best Places to Work. 

Experience the support that’ll take you from grad to a flourishing career with a position in Paylocity’s early careers division! 

Position Overview:

The National Sales Support (NSS) Intern program marks the first chapter of a rewarding, impactful, and sky’s-the-limit sales career with Paylocity. As an NSS intern you will learn about the NSS program, compensation plan, and sales career path opportunities. You will have a daily call goal and weekly appointment setting goal. You will receive 1 on 1 mentorship from a manager, professional development from business partners, and gain real life sales skills. Your time in the internship will be spent setting appointments, shadowing, learning, and project work. You will participate in team building activities and community engagement activities. You will also gain access to our Sales Executives to help shape your future with Paylocity. Depending on performance, The internship can also lead to a full-time National Sales Support position.

Responsibilities:

• Have the ability to manage multiple priorities, learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
• A self-motivated individual eager to learn, ask questions, and collaborate with others to learn our Sales program and processes
• Contact potential clients to help key decision makers modernize and improve their workplace through our industry-leading technology
• Participate in individual and team competitions to help reach goals
• Be able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas
• Passionate and driven to exceed goals; competitive but also able to work collaboratively on a team
• Handle objections and use sales techniques to align our solution to an organization’s needs
• Gather key information and maintain customer relationship management (CRM) database

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in a college degree program with anticipated graduation in December of 2025 or Spring of 2026

Soft Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ambitious, hard-working, and not afraid of healthy competition
• Resourceful and able to learn new products and processes quickly
• Self-motivated and results-driven, yet enjoys being part of a team

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.   

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.  

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact LeaveBenefits@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed. 

This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $20.44/hr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers.