Accelerate Sales Internship Summer 2026- Houston, TX

BMC Software Sales Professionals have the power to transform entire organizations. With your high-energy, dedication, and passion you will focus on designing and executing a go-to-market strategy, delivering revenue growth and customer happiness. If you are looking for a company that gives you the freedom to expand your role, focuses highly on your professional development through continuous enablement, gives you an environment where you would feel happy to come to work, then BMC is the place to be.

We are an award-winning, equal opportunity, culturally diverse, fun place to be. Giving back to the community drives us to be better every single day. Our work environment allows you to balance your priorities, because we know you will bring your best every day. We will champion your wins and shout them from the rooftops. Your peers will inspire, drive, support you, and make you laugh out loud! We help our customers free up time and space to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that conquers the opportunities ahead - and are relentless in the pursuit of innovation! Do we want to change this to the new tagline? Business, faster than humanly possible?

The 2026 BMC Accelerate Sales Internship offers an opportunity for rising sales undergraduate juniors to join the Sales team and work with leaders and team members of several sales groups. The internship will span over the course of 9 weeks at our Houston global headquarters. This internship is only open to juniors currently enrolled in a university or collegiate level sales degree and/or certification program. Sales interns will be assigned with the following objectives:

* Complete Intern Ignite and Enablement

* Complete two group projects alongside other interns and sales leaders

* Participate in the Prospecting Project alongside a Product Account Manager and Business Development Rep. This is a pipeline generation contest where you will work with real accounts and be scored on the activities you generate for each account.

*Participate in the AI Role Play competition. This is a contest where you will practice your sales skills by utilizing AI to role play with.

* Present a readout for each project (four) alongside your team of interns

* Shadow a Product Account Manager to get a sense of the full-time role

* Participate in Intern events which could include BMC Cares (volunteer) activities, Lunch & Learns with Senior Leaders, Networking Dinners, Social Media Campaigns and Team-Building Activities.

Strong candidates will bring their unique background and perspective to enrich debate and considerations. We are looking for inquisitive team members who are excited by the prospect of contributing and learning, and who operate with a mindset geared toward:

* Effective communication - utilizing excellent written and verbal communication abilities paired with acute environmental awareness and strong active listening skills

* Problem solving - gathering insights, distilling information, and empathetically guiding a group toward a creative and sustainable impact

* Proactivity - demonstrating initiative, thinking ahead, anticipating needs, confirming alignment, and pursuing goals relentlessly

* Determination - exploring multiple avenues and approaches, employing flexibility in your mentality to achieve the best outcome and follow through on commitments

* Team orientation - working successfully with a group as well as bringing individual output to the table for shared utilization

Your Outcomes

This internship is designed to prepare interns for Sales careers in SaaS environments. As a Sales intern you will have an opportunity to work with a growing team and help deliver excellent customer experience and drive critical operational improvements. Through this internship you will enrich your skillset with real-world examples of:

* Communicating effectively with a variety of companies and customer roles

* Learning the BMC sales process

* Leveraging enterprise business tools including LinkedIn Sales Navigator and other sales tools

* Seeking out problems and effectively communicating and executing solutions

* Navigating highly complex product- and service-based solutions

* Understanding and optimizing multi-department RACI/roles and responsibilities alignments

* Building business cases incorporating company- and industry-sourced data sets

* Evaluating and optimizing high-growth team operations

* Networking within a SaaS organization

* Utilizing quantitative success metrics to inform planning and decision making