Strategy & Operations Intern — Own Real, Impactful Projects + Equity

Sycamore; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 70,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Direct exposure to founders

Job summary

Sycamore is building the trusted agent operating system for the enterprise. We are a small, engineering-led team working directly with Fortune 500 enterprises.

This internship offers ownership of real problems in Strategy & Operations, with direct partner support, and a project that ships during the internship. You will own analytical and operational problems end to end, contribute to planning and pricing, and help design internal processes across finance and commercial ops, while using AI tools

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree, or recently graduated.
• Strong analytical ability; you can build a model, query data directly, and tell the difference between signal and noise.
• Evidence of operational follow-through; you have implemented recommendations, not only produced them.
• Comfort with ambiguity and no established playbook; much of this role is deciding what deserves attention.
• Clear writing; recommendations should be understandable to someone not in the room.
• Technical fluency; you should be able to work with data and understand what our product does at more than a surface level.
• AI-native; you use modern AI systems and agents to expand your throughput while owning judgment and conclusions.
• High integrity with numbers; you would rather present an uncomfortable finding than a flattering one.

Responsibilities

• Own analytical and operational problems end to end, from framing through recommendation through implementation.
• Run company planning, goal setting, and the review cadence that keeps them honest.
• Design and improve internal processes across finance, recruiting operations, vendor management, and commercial operations.
• Support pricing, deal structuring, and commercial analysis alongside the go-to-market team.
• Find the work nobody owns yet, take it on, and hand it off well once it is systematized.
• Write clearly for an audience of founders, engineers, and customers.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Written communication

Data fluency

Ambiguity tolerance

Operational follow-through

Education

Undergraduate/Graduate student

Tools

SQL

Data visualization

AI tools

Job description

Sycamore is building the trusted agent operating system for the enterprise. We are a small, engineering-led team working directly with Fortune 500 enterprises.

This internship offers ownership of real problems in Strategy & Operations, with direct partner support, and a project that ships during the internship. You will own analytical and operational problems end to end, contribute to planning and pricing, and help design internal processes across finance and commercial ops, while using AI tools