Summer MBA Intern — Market Strategy & Expansion (NYC)

Pickle

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Posted 20 days ago

Internship

New York, New York

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Smart Summary

The intern will identify and evaluate new growth opportunities, analyze user behavior, and conduct customer interviews. They will also design and execute early-stage tests and work cross-functionally to drive execution.

This Summer MBA Intern role requires someone currently pursuing an MBA with strong analytical skills and experience in strategy, consulting, or similar problem-solving environments. The ideal candidate should be action-oriented, comfortable with customer interaction, and highly organized to manage multiple workstreams and turn ambiguity into structure.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Analytical Skills

Customer Insight

Data Analysis

User Research

Project Management

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Testing

Iteration

Ownership

Communication

Organization

Problem Solving

Startup Experience

Market Expansion

Consumer Apps

E-Commerce

Job Description

About Pickle

Pickle is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace unlocking the value of the billions of underutilized items sitting in consumers’ closets. We make it easy to rent high-quality items exactly when you need them — with fast, convenient fulfillment and an on-demand experience that’s as seamless as shopping.

We’re building a new kind of commerce layer: one powered by dynamic local supply, where access is more convenient than ownership. Pickle is now live nationwide and scaling rapidly in key markets including NYC, LA, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, with 400K+ items listed for rent.

Backed by our Series A (FirstMark, Craft), we’re moving fast and building the future of access-driven shopping.

About The Role

We’re hiring a Summer MBA Intern to work across our Markets & Growth teams on high-priority expansion initiatives.

This role is a mix of strategy, customer insight, and hands-on execution. You’ll identify new opportunities within the marketplace, validate them through data and user research, and help bring them to life — from idea to real-world testing, launching and early scaling.

This is not a “just strategy” internship — you’ll be expected to move quickly from insight → action → iteration, and will have real ownership over projects that directly impact the business.

What You’ll Do

  • Identify and evaluate new growth opportunities across the marketplace

  • Analyze user behavior, supply dynamics, and marketplace trends to inform strategy

  • Conduct customer interviews and research to validate hypotheses

  • Design and execute early-stage tests to bring new ideas to life

  • Work cross-functionally with Growth, Markets, and Operations to drive execution

  • Build and document playbooks based on what works

  • Continuously iterate based on performance and learnings

  • Measure and report on results

Who You Are

  • Currently pursuing an MBA

  • Strong analytical skills — you’re highly comfortable working in spreadsheets and using data to drive decisions

  • Experience in strategy, consulting, or similar problem-solving environments

    • Ideally paired with hands-on startup, growth, or operational experience

  • Scrappy and action-oriented — you excited to build from 0 → 1, not just ideate

  • You’ve built or executed something before (startup, side project, program, etc.)

  • Comfortable talking to customers and gathering insights directly; social and engaging

  • Highly organized — you can manage multiple workstreams and turn ambiguity into structure, quickly

  • Strong ownership mindset — you take initiative and follow through

Nice to Have

  • Experience with marketplaces, consumer apps, or e-commerce

  • Experience with customer research or user interviews

  • Experience launching new verticals or market expansion

  • Passion for fashion, culture, and community-driven products

  • Active Pickle user

Pickle

Brined in 2020, Pickle set out to build a platform that helps companies of any size understand their customer conversations and strengthen their relationships. Pickle transcribes any audio format into text with high fidelity, provides a search database to quickly find any call, then the conversation is analyzed and summarized for easy comprehension. Optimize sales performance and customer experiences with your best conversations. Powered by artificial intelligence, Pickle helps refine your sales process by uncovering blind spots and transforming conversations into actionable insights. We tell you how to duplicate your best reps to create an army of superhuman sales and customer experience pros.

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