Internship: Innovation Consultant (New York)

Join us to for an exciting internship in NYC, imagining and creating tomorrow's products, services and businesses

Are you looking for a challenging internship that will set you up for success in the world of business design and innovation?

- You will practice conducting quantitative research, desk research, qualitative research

- You will practice new AI-powered innovation research, ideation and testing methods. (we’d love to hear how you’re exploring the possibilities of AI-powered innovation!)

- You will develop insights and identify opportunities to inform overall product & portfolio strategy

- You will support opportunity identification, new proposition development, new concept design and new concept testing.

This is an internship for do-ers. We won't handhold you throughout your internship, but we will provide guidance and support as needed. We are looking for self-starters who are eager to take initiative and ownership of their work.

Throughout your internship, you will work alongside a multidisciplinary team of designers, business designers, and digital experimenters, providing you with a unique and valuable learning experience. Successful interns may be offered a full-time position after the internship.

About Board of Innovation

We’re a global innovation firm, imagining tomorrow’s products, services & businesses — and creating them today. An independent collective of strategists, designers, growth hackers and entrepreneurs . We join forces with the world’s most ambitious businesses to make what life needs next.

We have built a successful business - with +30% CAGR (year-on-year-growth) by building strong relationships and delivering exciting work. Our ethos is simple:

• Make it happen: be entrepreneurial. No buzzwords, no theater. Ideas are nice, but impact is everything.
• Make it personal: help others. Be yourself. Leave your ego at the door.
• Make it better: think, and think again. Raise the bar. Listen, learn, share, repeat.

We have offices in New York, Singapore, Antwerp and Amsterdam with teams across 20 countries - we’ve committed to remote friendly, allowing our teams to work in the places that work for them while still providing face-to-face bonding by always aiming to have multiple people in the same city. For this position, we're looking to hire someone who already lives in New York City so she/he can be - happily - in the office minimum 3 days a week.

Your day to day: Collaborate on various research needs on different projects

• Desk research: Gaining a quick understanding of a given topic through the unpacking of available research and news: desk research, online listening, real-time web-scraping x AI, ...
• Qualitative research: Leading 1-1 consumer interviews and documenting quotes, stories, and discussions.
• Insight development: Bringing all of this together to identify patterns of insights and opportunities that will inform the overall strategy.
• Use of Generative AI tools: To provide rapid new innovation outcomes from your research, ai-powered ideation and synthetic testing is key
• Quantitative research: Validating business hypotheses through digital experiments and quantitative research.

You play a key role in project delivery preparation

• Session Engagement: Responsible for participating in client sessions where possible with the goal of being able to take on more ownership of discussions over time.
• Final delivery: Translating all of the analysis into a final deliverable that is succinct as well as engaging.
• Workshop preparation and design: Support structuring the activities for an engagement to guide the clients in getting to a final result.

You provide strategic support

• Sparring partner: Asking the right questions and sharing strategic opinions with the Sr. Consultant to strengthen the overall analysis.

Requirements

What you’ll need to be considered for this internship

• Min. 3-4 months availability for 100% of your time, so min. +- 38 hours per week
• Strong business analytical skills and being able to challenge a business case of a new venture on-the-spot
• Associated with a university so we can have an internship agreement with the school or MBA program
• Being able to formulate your own opinion, backed up with arguments and confidence
• Ability and eligibility to work from New York so you can regularly (min. 3 days per week) meet up in person with your business design colleagues for coaching sessions
• Strong interest in business design and corporate innovation
• Strong interest in AI / tech and experimenter-mindset with different AI-tools
• You have what it takes to thrive in our team: an authentic, humble personality, a no-nonsense approach, a relentless drive to learn, an open mindset, an entrepreneurial attitude, a true team spirit (no ego!), and you share our ‘make it matter’ mentality
• Academic background or MBA in Business / Design / Innovation / Engineering / Digital / Data

Why work at Board of Innovation

At Board of Innovation we are passionate about making what life needs next. Board of Innovation is not just a company but a way of working. It is a place that solves real challenges and creates a meaningful impact. It is a place that values diversity, intellectual curiosity, and the pursuit of passions. We strive to be a place where you can bring your whole self to work. As a remote friendly company, we understand that working from an office is not the only way to work. While the work we do is not easy, we make time to connect with the amazing people we’ve assembled from around the world to share our stories and learn from each other… Even spending a whole week together at our annual Summer Office (which is usually never far from a pool or beach!).