About the job
About the Business Insights Team
The Business Insights team at OpenAI is dedicated to monitoring industry competitors, generating actionable insights, and supporting strategic decision-making across go-to-market (GTM) and product initiatives. This dynamic team leverages OpenAI’s advanced technologies to establish and enhance internal intelligence systems, tools, and workflows, thereby optimizing the generation, analysis, and operationalization of competitive insights. The systems we develop enable OpenAI to comprehend competitive dynamics, respond swiftly to market changes, and elevate the quality of intelligence available across the organization.
About the Internship Role
As a Business Insights Intern, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing and expanding OpenAI’s business insights intelligence system. This involves identifying opportunities for improving existing workflows to make them faster, smarter, scalable, and more insightful. You will spearhead a project aimed at delivering sustainable improvements in how competitive intelligence is generated and utilized throughout the organization. This position is tailored for individuals who can merge analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, and practical execution to create lasting value beyond the duration of the internship.
We seek a candidate who is genuinely excited about the interplay between competitive intelligence, systems enhancement, experimentation, and strategic planning. The ideal applicant will possess a curiosity for the AI landscape, adaptability in ambiguous situations, and a drive to transform fragmented information into clear and actionable insights for internal stakeholders.
Location
This internship is based in San Francisco, CA. OpenAI employs a hybrid work model, requiring employees to be in the office three days a week, and we provide relocation assistance for new hires.
Key Responsibilities
Lead a significant internship project aimed at automation, experimentation, optimization, or analytical insights within the business insights function.
Evaluate current competitive intelligence workflows and identify areas for enhancement in speed, consistency, scalability, or usability.
Develop tools, prototypes, frameworks, analyses, or visualizations that amplify the understanding and responsiveness of GTM and product teams to competition.
Contribute to systems that advance competitor monitoring, launch analysis, knowledge capture, briefing generation, or insights distribution.
Produce documentation and operationally useful work structured for handoff, ensuring it continues to deliver value after the internship concludes.
You Will Excel in This Role If You:
Are a structured thinker capable of dissecting complex problems into manageable components.
Possess a passion for innovation and improvement in business processes.
Are ready to engage with a collaborative team to drive meaningful change.
