Strategy & Management Summer Associate Program
Driving innovation while transforming your career at the world’s best financial services firm begins with you.
About Bank of America
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.
Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
Strategy and Management Program
The Strategy and Management Program is our elite, two-year development program that prepares teammates to become future corporate leaders at Bank of America by providing you with direct experience in Digital Technologies, FinTech, Strategy, Innovation, and Management. Teammates will work in our innovation function (Bank of America Strategy and Business Ventures) helping drive strategic growth initiatives across our core business units. You will be exposed to multiple parts of our business and learn how to develop, test, launch, and operationalize new strategies to better serve our clients. You will also participate in a comprehensive training curriculum taught by BofA and industry experts, designed to enable general manager capabilities. Bank of America’s Strategy & Business Ventures team functions as an internal strategic consulting function for a wide range of leaders across the bank. This group provides high-fidelity learning opportunities in broadly relevant skills (research, modeling, presentations, problem solving methodologies, data visualization and storytelling) and will provide exposure to a diverse array of people, processes, and organizations within the bank.
As a Bank of America Strategy and Business Ventures teammate, you will build and accelerate new business capabilities (client experience, product innovation, FinTech, strategic ventures, portfolio management). You will be part of the leading consumer financial services organization in the world, comprised of 70,000+ teammates, serving 66 million clients, and consistently recognized for excellence, including 125+ industry awards in 2021 (Best Bank & Digital Bank, Best Bank for College Students, Most Innovative Bank, #1 Overall for Client Experience, Best Bank for Small Businesses, Top Company for Diversity Leadership, Best Workplace for Women, etc.).
You will be a part of a team that drives initiatives which have the potential to shape industries, given our reach (10 billion annual client interactions, 4,000+ financial centers nationwide) and cutting-edge expertise (4,000 patents, 6,000 teammates are inventors). From day one, you will receive career support and resources from our dedicated Campus team and professional development from our AwardWinning Academy at Bank of America.
As a Strategy & Management Summer intern you will
- get an exclusive preview of the two-year development program
- build an in-depth understanding of the business and client needs by supporting high priority strategic initiatives that span business units like Product, Digital, Small Business.
- design and execute qualitative and/or quantitative analyses to test and analyze hypotheses
- help synthesize findings, develop recommendations and communicate solutions to internal stakeholders
- work with a diverse group of high-performing peers and leaders within project teams
- gain an extensive understanding of the business, and opportunities available through exposure to senior leaders and industry-recognized experts at Bank of America
- partner with interns across the firm to participate in bank-sponsored volunteer and environmental, social, & governance initiatives
Required Qualifications
- Must be a graduate student enrolled in a full-time MBA or master’s degree from an accredited college or university with a graduation timeframe between Dec 2026 and August 2027
- Pursuing a field which includes but is not limited to: Management, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Data Analysis, FinTech, Product Management, Project Management
- 3-5 years of work experience between bachelor’s and MBA or masters with a demonstrated record of achievement
- 3.2 minimum GPA preferred
- History of high achievement and is a highly motivated self-starter
- Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset, and can adapt to change quickly with a positive manner
- Gets excited about solving problems
- Appreciates an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking
- Demonstrates analytic problem-solving skills, with a creative outlook
- Builds and nurtures strong relationships, while collaborating to get things done
- Demonstrates strong logical reasoning, listening, communication, and presentation skills
Desired Skills
- Are excited about enabling financial service solutions for Consumer & Small Business clients and reimagining the future of banking
- Have been part of high-performing teams or organizations
- Have experience leading and organizing projects
Please note:
Bank of America is unable to consider candidates that will require visa sponsorship now, or in the future, for this specific role.
If offered a full-time opportunity following your internship you will need to be geographically flexible with regards to your work location to be eligible.
To ensure you receive all application updates from our team, we encourage you to add the domain '@bankcampuscareers.tal.net' to your approved emails.
Travel: On needs basis
Full / Part-time: Full time
Hours Per Week: 40.00
Shift: 1st Shift
Location: Charlotte, NC, Boston, MA, New York, NY
