2027 Guardian Summer MBA Associate, Business Transformation
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Job summary
Guardian invites an MBA intern to join the 2027 Summer Internship Program in New York. You will work within the Business Transformation organization of FPRS, supporting portfolio planning or AI enablement using AI tools like Copilot, Tableau, and Power BI.
The program runs 10 weeks from late May to early August and offers exposure to senior leaders and cross-functional teams. You will own a workstream, build business cases, and help measure AI adoption; collaboration with finance, product, and
Qualifications
- First-year MBA student graduating between Dec 2027 and Jun 2028.
- Proactive and comfortable with ambiguity, able to listen and decide quickly.
- Strong problem-solving and business acumen with structured thinking.
- Proficient in financial modeling, sizing opportunities, and working with imperfect data.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; advanced Excel and PowerPoint incl. AI features.
- Hands-on use of generative AI tools for business problems; strong prompting skills.
- Understanding of AI limits, human judgment, verification, and responsible use.
- Comfort with Tableau/Power BI or similar data viz tools and willingness to learn new platforms.
- Ability to influence stakeholders with maturity and collaboration across teams.
- Self-starter with high energy and readiness to contribute.
Responsibilities
- Own a substantive workstream tied to portfolio planning or AI enablement.
- Conduct market, competitor, and internal research to inform decisions.
- Build analyses behind business cases, sizing, value capture, or adoption metrics.
- Prepare executive-ready materials for Guardian senior leaders.
- Develop AI adoption metrics and track productivity gains.
- Create training materials, prompts, and playbooks to scale AI use across FPRS.
- Collaborate with value stream leaders, product managers, finance partners, and tech leaders.
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Job description
Our 2027 Summer Internship Program is a paid 10-week learning experience where you will be immersed in the daily environment of a thriving global financial services company. You will gain invaluable industry and organizational knowledge through daily business interactions and job assignments, in addition to engaging in projects that directly affect our business, interacting with senior leaders, and networking with employees and interns across our offices. This 10-week internship provides you with realistic experiences and information of what it is like to work at Guardian.
This internship sits within the Business Transformation organization for FPRS (Financial Protection and Retirement Solutions), the team accountable for how Guardian's Life, Disability, and Annuity businesses set strategy into motion. We own enterprise portfolio planning and prioritization, lead multi-year value stream transformation across Purchase, Underwriting, and Service, and drive the AI enablement agenda that is reshaping how our colleagues work. You will be placed against one of two assignments based on business priority at the time of hire and your own interests:
Support the 2028 annual planning cycle, the process by which FPRS decides where to invest hundreds of millions of dollars across technology, operations, and growth initiatives. You will help build and pressure-test business cases, size initiatives, model trade-offs, and prepare the materials that senior leaders use to make funding decisions. You will do this work with AI in the loop, using generative AI assistants and AI-enabled analytics tools (Microsoft 365 Copilot, Excel Copilot, Power BI, Tableau) to accelerate modeling, scenario analysis, and research synthesis while applying your own judgment to the recommendation.
Support Guardian's AI enablement agenda across FPRS as both a practitioner and a change agent. You will apply structured use-case prioritization frameworks to identify high-value AI opportunities, quantify productivity and value capture, define and track adoption metrics, design prompts and AI-assisted workflows, and build the enablement assets and training that help thousands of colleagues adopt AI tools in their daily work. You will also contribute to how we govern responsible AI use in a regulated financial services environment.
Thursday, May 27, 2027 - Friday, August 6, 2027
- A first-year MBA student (graduating between December 2027-June 2028), who is proactive, comfortable with ambiguity, able to listen and make quick decisions, and thrives in a goal-oriented environment
- Energized by the intersection of business strategy and AI, and you see AI as a tool that amplifies human judgment rather than replaces it
- New York, NY (in office 3x a week)
- Strong problem-solving skills and business acumen, with the ability to structure ambiguous problems and drive to a defensible recommendation
- Proficiency with both qualitative and quantitative analysis, including comfort building financial models, sizing opportunities, and working with imperfect data
- Demonstrated project leadership potential, including prioritization of workstreams and collaboration with cross-functional colleagues
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including their AI-enabled features (Excel Copilot, PowerPoint Designer)
- Genuine curiosity about AI and emerging technology, and an interest in how it changes the way work gets done
- Hands-on experience using generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini) for business problems, including prompt design and the ability to iterate with a model to get to a usable output
- A working understanding of what AI can and cannot do, including where human judgment, accuracy verification, and responsible use principles must stay in the loop (no coding required)
- Comfort with data analytics and visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, or similar) and a willingness to learn new AI platforms quickly
- Ability to navigate relationships and influence stakeholders using strong interpersonal skills, maturity, and judgment
- A self-starter mindset, high energy, and a willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done
- Exposure to AI implementation, digital transformation, process automation, AI-related coursework, projects, or competitions during your MBA is also a plus but not required
- Prior experience in consulting, corporate strategy, transformation, product, or technology
- Interest in financial services and the insurance industry
- Own a substantive workstream tied to either 2028 portfolio planning or AI enablement, with a defined deliverable presented to senior leadership at the end of the summer
- Conduct market, competitor, and internal research to inform investment decisions or AI use case prioritization
- Build the analysis behind business cases, initiative sizing, value capture estimates, or adoption metrics
- Partner directly with value stream leaders, product managers, finance partners, and technology leaders across FPRS
- Develop executive-ready materials for forums attended by Guardian senior leadership
- Contribute to how we prioritize, sequence, and measure a multi-year transformation portfolio
- Use AI tools every day in your own work, and act as a power user who shows colleagues what good prompting and AI-assisted workflows look like
- Apply use-case prioritization frameworks to rank AI opportunities and build the business case for adoption
- Define and report AI adoption metrics and productivity gains, and translate them into value realization for the business
- Build training materials, prompt libraries, and adoption playbooks that scale AI use across FPRS, and contribute to our responsible AI guardrails around data privacy, accuracy, and ethical use
- Have the opportunity to work and learn from supportive leaders, mentors, and team members across the organization who will help coach you as you develop your professional career
- Learn about Guardian's purpose, values, how we work, and our suite of product and service offerings
- Build a network of colleagues and have a sense of community with other interns and other parts of the business
- Think broadly and ask questions about data, facts, and other information
- Meaningful and challenging work opportunities to accelerate innovation in a secure and compliant way
- Dynamic, modern work environments that promote collaboration and creativity to develop and empower talent
- Colleague Engagement Communities that create inclusive spaces where you can feel valued and connected
- Social responsibility in all aspects of our work - we volunteer within our local communities, create educational alliances with colleges, drive a variety of initiatives in sustainability
- Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-based work authorization. F-1 visa holders with Optional Practical Training (OPT) who will require H-1B status, TNs, or current H-1B visa holders will not be considered. H1-B and green card sponsorship are not available for this position.
- You must be available for the full program dates of the internship program.
If you have any questions regarding the application process, please feel free to email Guardian_Campus@glic.com.
The base pay range for this internship is $12,000 - $13,600 per month. Please ignore the hourly rate below.
$20.00 - $35.00
At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well‑being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.
Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MyHR@glic.com. Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian, refer to the Guardian Careers site.
Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment-based visas (e.g., such as an H-1B). In order to be a successful applicant, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.
As part of Guardian’s job application process, Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (\"AI Tools\") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening. This preliminary screening may be used to help identify applicant materials and resumes relative to their indication that the applicant meets the requirements for the specific job for which they are applying, as specified in the listing posted on Guardian’s jobs website (Careers at Guardian at https://www.guardianlife.com/careers). At Guardian, we do not use AI Tools to substantially assist or replace human judgment or
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