Strategy & Market Intelligence Intern (MBA)

About the Role

You'll work with leadership on OpenArt's growth strategy: where to expand, which customers and partners to prioritize, and how to plan for scale. This role suits MBA students from consulting, investment banking or corporate strategy.

Employment Type

Year-round internship with rolling start dates: full-time in summer, part-time (15-20 hrs/week) during the academic year. Minimum 3-month commitment

What You’ll Do

• Market sizing & planning: connect the external market with internal plans. Size opportunities top-down for new segments, including enterprise, studios and agencies, new verticals and international expansion. Build bottom-up operating plans, scenarios and KPI targets that tie those opportunities to our annual and quarterly goals.
• Competitive intelligence: track pricing, product launches, funding and model partnerships across the creative AI landscape. Gather insights through public research and expert calls with creative professionals, agencies, model providers, operators and investors, then turn what you learn into clear judgments the team can align on.
• Partnership deal support: provide strategic support to the Partnerships team on major deals, such as content co-production with media platforms and co-sell programs with AI labs.

Core Requirements

• Currently pursuing or recently completed an MBA. For strong candidates, we don't limit by major. We welcome candidates at any stage, including those on a gap year or in other situations.
• Pre-MBA experience in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, venture capital or growth equity is preferred, along with the core toolkit that comes with it: strong financial and market modeling from imperfect data, structuring expert or customer interviews into crisp insights, and executive-ready communication in slides and memos.

Nice to Have

• You've built AI into how you work (e.g., agent-driven research or automated modeling workflows).
• Deep understanding of the AI business landscape: how models are built, priced and distributed, where value accrues across the stack, and what that means for application companies like OpenArt.

What You'll Gain

• Real impact through leadership exposure: you'll work directly with C-level leaders and the key decision-making committee, so your ideas and judgment can shape a product used by more than 10M users worldwide.
• Return offer opportunities: strong interns will be considered for full-time roles, and we have many openings across product, engineering, research and GTM.
• Compensation & benefits: competitive pay, plus the same in-office benefits as our full-time employees.

Work Setup

• Bay Area required (hybrid allowed)
• Visa sponsorship available

Compensation

The expected base salary range for this role is $40 to $50 per hour.