AARP
Washington, DC 20049
Remote
2022-03-11
Emerging Businesses Product and Market Analysis Intern (Summer-Fall)
4.2
Overview:
Are you a business student with solid analysis skills who can distill disparate data into digestible recommendations? Our Product Development and Management team is looking for you! As an intern, you will apply strategic, analytical, and creative thinking to solve challenging business problems. On any given day, you could be researching a given market to understand the competitive landscape or speaking with experts to understand an industry's value chain. We'll challenge you to think and work in new ways. We are committed to your growth and will cultivate your continued learning and development. This internship has an anticipated start date of June 2022 and will go through the end of the year.
Responsibilities:
Flexible Work Arrangement (FWA)
Benefits
Equal Employment Opportunity
AARP Services, Inc., founded in 1999, is a wholly-owned taxable subsidiary of AARP. AARP Services manages the provider relationships for and performs quality control oversight of the wide range of products and services that carry the AARP name and are made available by independent providers as benefits to AARP’s millions of members. AARP Services also engages in new product development activities for AARP and provides certain consulting services to outside companies.
Are you a business student with solid analysis skills who can distill disparate data into digestible recommendations? Our Product Development and Management team is looking for you! As an intern, you will apply strategic, analytical, and creative thinking to solve challenging business problems. On any given day, you could be researching a given market to understand the competitive landscape or speaking with experts to understand an industry's value chain. We'll challenge you to think and work in new ways. We are committed to your growth and will cultivate your continued learning and development. This internship has an anticipated start date of June 2022 and will go through the end of the year.
- Contribute to identifying growth opportunities aligned with the overall enterprise’s strategic objectives
- Identifying and evaluating whitespace opportunities, strengthening existing operating models, evaluating new consumer needs states, and uncovering new product and service solutions
- Contributes to marketplace assessments, including secondary research to map the competitive landscape, understand revenue models, conduct market sizing, and building a business case for participation in a market
- Cultivates deep understanding of consumers/members through human center design, including assessing needs, identifying pain points/barriers, ideating value proposition and solutions, and estimating demand
- Document market assessments in the form of visual presentations for senior stakeholders
- Prospective interns must be currently enrolled in a degree program at an accredited college or university; be considered rising undergraduate juniors or seniors, graduate students, or post-doctoral students; and remain academically enrolled throughout the internship
- AARP also considers non-traditional interns who are looking to re-enter the workforce or change careers; this may include those who have previously graduated from college and enrolled in a continuing education program
- Working toward completion of a degree, preferably in a business discipline or a related discipline with experience in consulting, strategy development, marketing, or product development
- Requires significant independent judgment, strategic evaluation, assessment, and recommendation while sorting through a high degree of diverse challenges
- Evaluates complex data, concepts, information, and resources and develops working frameworks and detailed solutions
- Results-oriented, decisive, and analytical, leading to creative solutions while managing key stakeholder involvement
- Good communicator (written, presentation) and excellent interpersonal skills; experience in PowerPoint
- Demonstrated ability to be highly collaborative and flexible with iterative approaches
Flexible Work Arrangement (FWA)
AARP observes Mondays and Fridays as telecommuting workdays, except for essential functions. Remote work and telecommuting can only be done within the United States and its territories.
Benefits
Internships are non-exempt positions and are not eligible for employee benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity
AARP is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. AARP does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, color, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.