AI-First Transformation – Strategy Consultant Intern

Introduction

About the Team

IBM’s AI-First Transformation organization is redefining how a global enterprise operates in the agentic AI era—designing workflows, operating models, and technology foundations that power the next generation of IBM.

We are the group responsible for architecting IBM’s enterprise-wide transformation agenda, enabling trusted data, scaling AI solutions, and reimagining how work gets done across thousands of processes. Our mandate is to help IBM become the world’s benchmark AI-first enterprise.

To date, the organization has delivered $4.5B in productivity gains, making IBM a standout performer in the MIT GenAI Divide study, where 95% of enterprises fail to move beyond pilots. IBM is the rare organization successfully scaling AI at material enterprise levels—and this team is at the center of that shift.

This position sits inside one of IBM’s most strategic transformation engines.

Your role and responsibilities

The Role

As an AI-First Transformation Intern, you will help support initiatives that enable the organization to make better decisions, drive innovation, and create business value through data and artificial intelligence, working alongside transformation leaders, product strategists, data and AI experts, workflow specialists, and senior stakeholders across IBM.

AIFT is hiring across three teams. Please see a brief summary of each:

• Value Creation: Identifies, prioritizes, and executes AI and productivity initiatives, helping IBM focus investments on the highest-value transformation opportunities and drive value across IBM.

• AI and Data Governance: Establishes the policies, controls, and decision frameworks needed to ensure AI and data are used responsibly, securely, and at enterprise scale.

• AI Enablement and Value Realization: Drives adoption and measures the business impact of AI initiatives across the enterprise

This role may blend:

• AI-informed product thinking

• Enterprise workflow redesign

• Strategic transformation & operating model architecture

• Value creation analysis and benchmarking

• Technology roadmap & experimentation strategy

You will help accelerate IBM’s transformation by shaping foundational work across processes, platforms, and AI solutions.

What You’ll Gain:

• The opportunity to help transform one of the world’s most iconic technology companies

• Mastery of AI-native workflow design and enterprise operating model transformation

• Experience with critical decision-making forums across IBM

• Hands-on experience evaluating and experimenting with cutting-edge AI tools

• A portfolio tied directly to measurable enterprise value

• The ability to work at the forefront of AI-first transformation

If you want to help define the blueprint for the AI-first enterprise, this is the place to do it. Please submit your resume and application. During the interview process, you can indicate your preferred team.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Depending on your team, you may do the following:

• Reimagine Enterprise Workflows with AI

• Conduct deep workflow assessments across Finance, HR, Procurement, Operations, Sales, and other business domains

• Apply zero-based design to create AI-native workflows, not incremental fixes

• Identify opportunities for automation, GenAI, agentic systems, and intelligent orchestration

• Define future-state operating models and transformation playbooks

• Advance AI Product Strategy & Experimentation

• Evaluate prototypes, tools, and platforms being developed or tested across IBM

• Lead or support experiments that test feasibility, scalability, and workflow integration

• Support design of MVPs and contribute to readiness assessments for scale

• Shape recommendations for build, integrate, or enhance decisions

• Build Technology & Transformation Roadmaps

• Integrate business needs with data, infrastructure, and platform capabilities

• Translate cross-functional input into clear technology and AI enablement plans

• Develop multi-quarter transformation roadmaps across domains

• Engage with AI governance, risk, and prioritization mechanisms

• Quantify Value Creation (Transformation & ROI)

• Develop value hypotheses and financial models for high-impact AI deployments

• Track KPIs and build tooling for visibility into impact and adoption

• Support prioritization decisions tied to enterprise value

• Prepare executive-caliber materials for leadership forums

• Collaborate with Senior Stakeholders Across IBM

• Work closely with leaders across business units, technology groups, and transformation teams+H2

• Create clear, insight-driven deliverables for executive reviews

• Participate in cross-functional sprints and enterprise transformation workstreams

• Help communicate transformation strategy and operating model shifts across IBM

Required technical and professional expertise

Who You Are

You are a high-performing candidate drawn to the intersection of AI, strategy, product, and enterprise transformation.

You are pursuing an MBA or similar graduate degree, such as a master’s degree in Finance or Economics, and may have experience in

You may have experience in:

• Strategy, transformation, or operations

• Technology, product development, or analytics

• Finance, value creation, or operating model design

• AI, automation, or workflow modernization

How You Think:

• You thrive in ambiguity and design from first principles

• You communicate with structure, clarity, and executive-level precision

• You understand how systems, people, and technology interact

• You operate with high ownership, intellectual curiosity, and a bias for impact

This position is ideal for candidates aspiring to leadership careers in AI, transformation, product, operations, or enterprise strategy.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Pursuing an MBA or similar graduate degree, such as a master's degree in Finance or Economics

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.