AI-First Transformation – Strategy Consultant Intern

IBM; New York (NY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM’s AI-First Transformation Internship program invites high-potential students to help shape IBM’s enterprise-wide transformation agenda through data and AI. You will work with transformation leaders, product strategists, and AI experts across IBM.

Across Value Creation, AI Governance, and AI Enablement and Value Realization, you will contribute to AI-native workflow design, operating models, and strategic roadmaps while gaining hands-on exposure to cutting-edge AI tools in a global

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Master's Degree preferred
• Experience in strategy, transformation, or operations is a plus
• Exposure to AI, analytics, or workflow modernization is advantageous

Responsibilities

• Reimagine enterprise workflows with AI
• Conduct deep workflow assessments across Finance, HR, Procurement, Operations, Sales
• Apply zero-based design to AI-native workflows
• Identify opportunities for automation, GenAI, agentic systems, and intelligent orchestration
• Define future-state operating models and transformation playbooks
• Advance AI Product Strategy & Experimentation
• Evaluate prototypes, tools, and platforms being developed or tested across IBM
• Lead or support experiments for feasibility, scalability, and integration
• Prepare executive-caliber materials for leadership forums
• Collaborate with Senior Stakeholders Across IBM

Skills

Strategy

Transformation

AI

Analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

IBM’s AI-First Transformation organization is redefining how a global enterprise operates in the agentic AI era—designing workflows, operating models, and technology foundations that power the next generation of IBM.

We are the group responsible for architecting IBM’s enterprise-wide transformation agenda, enabling trusted data, scaling AI solutions, and reimagining how work gets done across thousands of processes. Our mandate is to help IBM become the world’s benchmark AI-first enterprise.

To date, the organization has delivered $4.5B in productivity gains, making IBM a standout performer in the MIT GenAI Divide study, where 95% of enterprises fail to move beyond pilots. IBM is the rare organization successfully scaling AI at material enterprise levels—and this team is at the center of that shift.

This position sits inside one of IBM’s most strategic transformation engines.

Your role and responsibilities

The Role
As an AI-First Transformation Intern, you will help support initiatives that enable the organization to make better decisions, drive innovation, and create business value through data and artificial intelligence, working alongside transformation leaders, product strategists, data and AI experts, workflow specialists, and senior stakeholders across IBM.
AIFT is hiring across three teams. Please see a brief summary of each:

• Value Creation: Identifies, prioritizes, and executes AI and productivity initiatives, helping IBM focus investments on the highest-value transformation opportunities and drive value across IBM.
• AI and Data Governance: Establishes the policies, controls, and decision frameworks needed to ensure AI and data are used responsibly, securely, and at enterprise scale.
• AI Enablement and Value Realization: Drives adoption and measures the business impact of AI initiatives across the enterprise
  

This role may blend:

• AI-informed product thinking
• Enterprise workflow redesign
• Strategic transformation & operating model architecture
• Value creation analysis and benchmarking
• Technology roadmap & experimentation strategy

You will help accelerate IBM’s transformation by shaping foundational work across processes, platforms, and AI solutions.
What You’ll Gain:

• The opportunity to help transform one of the world’s most iconic technology companies
• Mastery of AI-native workflow design and enterprise operating model transformation
• Experience with critical decision-making forums across IBM
• Hands-on experience evaluating and experimenting with cutting-edge AI tools
• A portfolio tied directly to measurable enterprise value
• The ability to work at the forefront of AI-first transformation

If you want to help define the blueprint for the AI-first enterprise, this is the place to do it. Please submit your resume and application. During the interview process, you can indicate your preferred team.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Depending on your team, you may do the following:

• Reimagine Enterprise Workflows with AI
• Conduct deep workflow assessments across Finance, HR, Procurement, Operations, Sales, and other business domains
• Apply zero‑based design to create AI-native workflows, not incremental fixes
• Identify opportunities for automation, GenAI, agentic systems, and intelligent orchestration
• Define future‑state operating models and transformation playbooks
• Advance AI Product Strategy & Experimentation
• Evaluate prototypes, tools, and platforms being developed or tested across IBM
• Lead or support experiments that test feasibility, scalability, and workflow integration
• Support design of MVPs and contribute to readiness assessments for scale
• Shape recommendations for build, integrate, or enhance decisions
• Build Technology & Transformation Roadmaps
• Integrate business needs with data, infrastructure, and platform capabilities
• Translate cross-functional input into clear technology and AI enablement plans
• Engage with AI governance, risk, and prioritization mechanisms
• Quantify Value Creation (Transformation & ROI)
• Develop value hypotheses and financial models for high-impact AI deployments
• Track KPIs and build tooling for visibility into impact and adoption
• Support prioritization decisions tied to enterprise value
• Prepare executive‑caliber materials for leadership forums
• Collaborate with Senior Stakeholders Across IBM
• Work closely with leaders across business units, technology groups, and transformation teams+H2
• Participate in cross-functional sprints and enterprise transformation workstreams
• Help communicate transformation strategy and operating model shifts across IBM

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Who You Are
You are a high‑performing candidate drawn to the intersection of AI, strategy, product, and enterprise transformation.

You are pursuing an MBA or similar graduate degree, such as a master’s degree in Finance or Economics, and may have experience in

you may have experience in:

• Strategy, transformation, or operations
• Technology, product development, or analytics
• AI, automation, or workflow modernization

How You Think:

• You thrive in ambiguity and design from first principles
• You communicate with structure, clarity, and executive‑level precision
• You understand how systems, people, and technology interact
• You operate with high ownership, intellectual curiosity, and a bias for impact

This position is ideal for candidates aspiring to leadership careers in AI, transformation, product, operations, or enterprise strategy.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Pursuing an MBA or similar graduate degree, such as a master's degree in Finance or Economics

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM’s financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk.Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 15 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation