MBA Summer Intern

MBA Summer Intern
Realize 2050 · Summer 2026 · 10 weeks · Fully Remote (option for contract-to-hire)

The Role
We're looking for an MBA Summer Intern to embed on a live engagement and own a real workstream end-to-end.
Realize 2050 is an energy solutions consultancy and venture studio. We work with utilities, energy system incumbents, and well-funded startups to launch new businesses across energy and transportation. We call ourselves decision architects, and we run our Innovation Flywheel to take climate technologies from concept to commercialization. If you came back to business school to build a career in energytech, gridtech, transportation electrification, or infrastructure innovation, this is the summer to test it.

What You'll Do

Engagement Work

• Own a real workstream end-to-end, scoped against a client decision that matters

• Build the economics model that anchors the client recommendation

• Draft buyer-specific messaging and pitch materials

• Help prepare customer conversations and translate what you hear into sharper strategy

• Present your work to the engagement team and, when it's ready, to the client

Venture & Commercialization

• Help a startup client find its first real buyers and build the sales motion to repeat it

• Pressure-test a venture concept or partnership thesis: who buys this, why, and on what terms

• Help build a decision framework that the team reuses across engagements

You Might Be a Fit If You Have

• Currently enrolled in a top MBA program

• 3–6 years of pre-MBA experience in strategy consulting, energy or transportation, infrastructure investing, climate tech, or product/venture roles

• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous problems and drive them to a defensible recommendation without a playbook

• Strong financial modeling and quantitative reasoning

• Sharp written and verbal communication

• AI literacy: you use modern AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, agentic workflows) fluently in your own work, and you have a point of view on where they help and where they don't

• Genuine interest in energy and transportation systems, utilities, gridtech, energytech, electrification

Bonus Points For

• Prior work with or inside investor-owned utilities, ISO/RTOs, or regulators

• Experience launching, scaling, or advising an early-stage hardtech or energytech venture, especially commercial enablement (segmentation, messaging, sales playbook, deal coaching)

• Familiarity with grid planning, energy software, enterprise AI/ML product development, or transportation electrification

• Exposure to public-private funding, IRA/IIJA programs, state Clean Fuels Standards, or other state-level energy and transportation policy

What We Offer

• Real project ownership, not coffee runs and observation

• Direct mentorship from Principals and Engagement Managers, with weekly partner check-ins

• A clear conversion path to a full-time post-MBA role for interns who deliver

• Competitive intern compensation

• Fully remote — work from anywhere in the US