Strategy & Ops Intern — Own Real Problems & Impact

Sycamore Labs, Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 20,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Sycamore Labs, Inc. is seeking an eager intern for Strategy & Operations to tackle real business problems—from planning and pricing to internal systems. You will collaborate directly with the founders and engineers, owning projects end to end with a partner on the team.

You will gain exposure to how decisions are made in a fast-growing enterprise startup and see immediate impact from your work. The role emphasizes clear writing, data-driven analysis, and a hands-on approach to operational

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree. We care about how you think, not your year or program.
• Prior internship, research, or project experience where you owned an analytical problem and saw it through to a conclusion.
• Strong analytical ability. You can build a model, query data directly, and tell the difference between a real signal and an artifact of how the data was collected.
• 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. Your recommendations should be understandable to someone who was not in the role.
• Technical fluency. You do not need to be an engineer, but you should be able to work with data yourself and understand what our product does at more than a surface level.
• AI-native. You use modern AI systems and agents to expand your own throughput, while owning the judgment and the 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 and systems 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

Data fluency

Written communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Problem solving

Education

Undergraduate/Graduate student

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Sycamore Labs, Inc. is seeking an eager intern for Strategy & Operations to tackle real business problems—from planning and pricing to internal systems. You will collaborate directly with the founders and engineers, owning projects end to end with a partner on the team.

You will gain exposure to how decisions are made in a fast-growing enterprise startup and see immediate impact from your work. The role emphasizes clear writing, data-driven analysis, and a hands-on approach to operational