Strategy & Operations Intern
Hybrid (Palo Alto, CA)$0InternPosted 2mo ago
About the role
Internship focused on owning real analytical and operational problems end-to-end to improve planning, pricing, processes, and go-to-market effectiveness within a small, engineering-led startup.
Responsibilities
- Own analytical and operational problems end to end, from framing through recommendation through implementation.
- Run company planning, goal setting, and the review cadence that keeps them honest.
- Design and improve internal processes and systems across finance, recruiting operations, vendor management, and commercial operations.
- Support pricing, deal structuring, and commercial analysis alongside the go-to-market team.
- Find the work nobody owns yet, take it on, and hand it off well once it is systematized.
- Write clearly for an audience of founders, engineers, and customers.
Qualifications
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree, or recently graduated. We care about how you think, not your year or program.
- Prior internship, research, or project experience where you owned an analytical problem and saw it through to a conclusion.
- Strong analytical ability. You can build a model, query data directly, and tell the difference between a real signal and an artifact of how the data was collected.
- Evidence of operational follow-through. You have implemented recommendations, not only produced them.
- Comfort with ambiguity and no established playbook. Much of this role is deciding what deserves attention.
- Clear writing. Your recommendations should be understandable to someone who was not in the room.
- Technical fluency. You do not need to be an engineer, but you should be able to work with data yourself and understand what our product does at more than a surface level.
- AI-native. You use modern AI systems and agents to expand your own throughput, while owning the judgment and the conclusions.
- High integrity with numbers. You would rather present an uncomfortable finding than a flattering one.
Skills
Required:Analytical problem solvingData analysisWritten communication
Benefits
- Competitive cash compensation and meaningful equity in the company you are helping build.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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