MBA Intern - Sales Strategy & Ops at Verkada in San Mateo, CA

Summary: Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. As an MBA Intern in Sales Strategy & Ops, you will drive insights and operational strategies that enhance sales efficiency while working closely with various stakeholders across the organization. Responsibilities: - Scope and execute analytical special projects that help us better understand our business and what drives success - Partner with sales leadership to develop and operationalize strategic initiatives - Identifying and implementing improvements in current workflows and processes that can help improve efficiency and visibility - Building programming and content to help new hires get up to speed as quickly as possible - Tracking the right effectiveness metrics to see what makes someone a top (or bottom) performer and how we scale those learnings - Working in Salesforce and Google Sheets / Excel on a daily basis - Talking frequently with our stakeholders in sales, marketing, ops, product, finance, and more to help troubleshoot systems issues, review insights from our analyses, and build future-state processes and systems Required Qualifications: - Currently enrolled in a full-time MBA program graduating in 2027 - Ability to work at Verkada HQ (San Mateo, CA) for Summer 2026 - High-impact self-starter: you take initiative to move projects forward and can operate well with little guidance - Raw smarts: we are looking for people who can look at complex problems and solve them start to finish - Strong analytical skills: you nerd out about data, can quickly structure analyses to answer key business questions to drive decision-making, and will also have perspectives on building the right data architecture - Excel skills are a must; SQL / Tableau / Looker experience a plus - Process and operational thinking: you can tackle a problem independently and quickly iterate to a solution, and then also document it in a way that's easy to understand for all audiences - Communication and stakeholder management: you'll need to be able to connect with sales reps and hardware engineers alike to figure out how we build the right processes and workflows to drive efficiency while also giving us the data to measure how we're doing - Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must - Flexibility and hustle: you manage change and ambiguity well, and have no problems juggling multiple priorities while executing in a fast-paced environment - You're comfortable pivoting quickly and often - 3+ years of professional experience, ideally in consulting, banking, private equity, corporate strategy, or a startup Preferred Qualifications: - Previous Salesforce experience is a plus - Previous Sales, Sales Operations, or Strategy experience is a plus Required Skills: Analytical skills, Salesforce, Excel Important Skills: SQL, Tableau, Looker, Communication Nice-to-Have Skills: Stakeholder management, Process thinking, Flexibility, Self-starter Benefits: We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa., Monthly housing stipend (in addition to hourly wage), Roundtrip flights to and from our San Mateo HQ, Daily lunch, complimentary barista-made drinks, and fully stocked snacks to keep you fueled, Intern-exclusive events and mixers, After 90 days of active employment, interns are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance. We cover 100% of employee premiums under at least one medical plan and 80% of dependent premiums, Time off to rest and recharge through personal sick time and volunteer time off to support causes you care about, Healthy lunches, snacks, and coffee provided daily