Strategy & Marketplace Intern
Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.
We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.
Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
As an intern on the strategy and marketplace team, you'll support senior leaders tackling problems core to Self's long-term business. You will partner across the team to support initiatives ranging from partnership identification and development to market analysis and competitive positioning
What you will do:
- Customer discovery and analysis: Conducting customer interviews or surveys to identify key pain points and trends within our existing customer base
- External competitive analysis: Putting together market maps of various niches within the fintech space. Would help us understand where Self fits in and what products might be a good fit
- Product positioning work: Given the products we have and some we are considering, we'd like to understand how to best position/frame our offerings
What will you need:
- Prior experience working with cross-functional teams on business development and/or marketing initiatives
- Prior experience with partnership generation (ideation to sourcing)
- Data analysis using excel or R
We have the compensation and benefits you expect. But there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many companies cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. We are a team of Builders, empowering our customers to build their dreams. We have a Do the Right Thing ethos in all that we do, and we hope you value that approach, too.
Our perks include:
- Company Equity in the form of RSUs
- Quarterly performance-based bonuses
- Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage
- Flexible vacation policy
- Educational assistance
- Free gym membership
- Casual dress code
- Team building events and activities
- Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule
- Paid parental leave
Self Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.