2027 Platforms & Customer Strategy Consulting Intern

West Monroe; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 47,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

West Monroe seeks Consulting Interns to join the Platforms & Customer Strategy team within the TechEx Practice. You will collaborate with clients across industries to enhance customer and employee experience via strategy, process design, and technology enablement.

Expect hands-on work across customer strategy, data analysis, and platform configuration using Salesforce, ServiceNow, NetSuite, and more. Responsibilities include analyzing current states, designing future journeys, and determining

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree with a 3.0+ GPA.
• US work authorization without sponsorship now or in the future.
• Reside within 50 miles of assigned office; hybrid model.
• Willing to travel Monday–Thursday up to 50% (travel costs covered).
• Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) into daily workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver business and technology solutions to improve customer experience and performance across marketing, sales, commerce, and service.
• Conduct analysis to identify trends, pain points, opportunities, and insights supporting strategic recommendations.
• Engage with client stakeholders to understand needs, gather requirements, and define outcomes.
• Support development of customer strategies, experience roadmaps, operating models, and transformation plans.
• Participate in workshops to assess current experiences and design future-state processes and journeys.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Teamwork

Organization

Leadership

AI curiosity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in progress

Tools

Salesforce

ServiceNow

NetSuite

NiCE

Genesys

Job description

West Monroe is seeking Consulting Interns to join our Platforms & Customer Strategy team within our Technology & Experience (TechEx) Practice. As an intern, you will work directly with clients across a variety of industries to improve customer and employee experience through a combination of strategy, business process and operating model design, and technology enablement. You will help clients transform functions such as marketing, sales, and customer service leveraging platforms including Salesforce, ServiceNow, NetSuite, and other customer experience technologies. Platforms & Customer Strategy Interns will gain hands‑on experience across customer strategy, business process and journey design, data and financial analysis, and technology configuration and implementation. You will learn how to translate customer and business needs into platform‑enabled solutions that improve experience, operations, and business performance.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver business and technology solutions that improve customer experience and performance across marketing, sales, commerce, and customer service functions.
• Conduct customer, market, operational, and data analysis to identify trends, pain points, opportunities, and insights that support strategic recommendations.
• Engage with client stakeholders across business and technology teams to understand customer and employee needs, gather requirements, and define desired business outcomes.
• Support the development of customer strategies, experience roadmaps, operating models, capability assessments, and technology‑enabled transformation plans.
• Participate in client workshops to assess current‑state experiences and operations, design future‑state processes and customer journeys, and define KPIs, capabilities, and guiding principles.
• Analyze and redesign business processes, workflows, roles, and supporting technologies to improve customer experience, employee effectiveness, operational efficiency, and business performance.
• Translate business and customer needs into clear business requirements, user stories, functional requirements, process flows, and current- and future‑state solution designs.
• Evaluate how customer platforms and emerging technologies can enable business capabilities, including identifying opportunities to improve platform utilization, integration, automation, and user experience.
• Perform configuration and development activities on platforms such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, NiCE, Genesys, and NetSuite, while supporting the creation of functional, technical, and solution design documentation.
• Support platform implementation activities including solution design, data and integration requirements, testing, defect resolution, deployment readiness, and change adoption.
• Write and execute unit, system, and user acceptance test scripts, and support the development and delivery of end‑user training, communications, and adoption materials.
• Develop analyses and business cases to evaluate transformation opportunities, technology investments, expected benefits, costs, and business outcomes.
• Connect customer strategy and business requirements to platform capabilities, helping clients understand how technology, data, AI, and operating model changes work together to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize complex information, and support data‑driven recommendations for clients, exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs
• Apply AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, automation tools, data models) to enhance insights, improve delivery efficiency, and elevate the quality of client outcomes

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• Sharp analytical thinking and an interest in solving complex problems
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• A collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for working as part of a team
• Ability to stay organized and manage priorities in a dynamic environment
• Demonstrated leadership through academics, extracurricular activities, or prior work experience
• Curiosity about emerging technologies, including AI, and a passion for continuous learning and innovation

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in progress, with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and August 2028
  • You will be asked to confirm your expected graduation month and year at the offer stage and prior to beginning your internship
  • We do request & review official transcripts from your school prior to the start of our internship program
  • If your expected graduation date falls outside of this range or changes, you are not eligible for this internship
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without limitation or sponsorship now or in the future (e.g., OPT, H-1B visa, TN, etc.)
• Reside within 50 miles of your assigned office prior to your start date; our culture emphasizes team collaboration within a hybrid work model
• Ability and willingness to travel Monday - Thursday (up to 50%); travel expenses covered by West Monroe
• Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) into day‑to‑day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation, coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy, mitigate bias, and ensure high‑quality outputs

Preferred Qualifications

• Majors in:
  • Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Business Analytics
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Industrial & Systems Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Marketing

Join our team and make a lasting impact!

Based on pay transparency guidelines, the pay rate for this role is $40.00. Other consultancies talk at you. At West Monroe, we work with you. We’re a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients, delivering real‑world solutions. The combination of business and technology is not new, but how we bring them together is unique. We’re fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer, but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come. At West Monroe, we zero in on the heart of the opportunity, getting to results faster and preparing people for what’s next. You’ll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. We’re right there in the room with you, co‑creating through the challenges. With West Monroe, collaboration isn’t a lofty promise, but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.

West Monroe is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

We believe in treating each employee and applicant for employment fairly and with dignity. We base our employment decisions on merit, experience, and potential, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state or local law. To learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion at West Monroe, visitwww.westmonroe.com/inclusion. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in our recruiting process, please inquire by sending an email to [e-mail]. Please review our current policy regarding use of generative artificial intelligence during the application process. Additionally, West Monroe uses the BrightHire platform to record live interviews so our team can capture notes more accurately, stay focused on the conversation, and continually improve our interview process. You can review our privacy notice for more information about this process and how recordings are used. If you have any questions, reach out to [e-mail]. If you are based in California, we encourage you to read West Monroe’s Notice at Collection for California residents, provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and linkedhere.