Intern, Strategy & Corporate Development

Position Title: MBA / Graduate Summer Intern, Strategy & Corporate Development Department:  Strategy Location: Remote, must be located in the US and be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future. FLSA Status: Non-Exempt, Full Time, 8 – 10 weeks

One Inc provides insurance companies a digital payments platform designed to increase retention, decrease admin expenses, and mitigate data security risk – while simplifying compliance. The One Inc Digital Payments Platform combines multi-channel digital communications with electronic payment processing and disbursement, creating a frictionless premium and claims payments experience. As one of the fastest growing digital payments platforms in the insurance industry, One Inc manages billions of dollars per year in premiums and claims payments.

Each intern will own a dedicated project solving real business challenges.  You will have the opportunity to contribute to meaningful work, network and participate in professional and personal development sessions.  The internship will wrap up with a presentation on your learnings and the experience.

Overview:

The Intern, Strategy & Corporate Development will help identify and evaluate long-term growth opportunities for One Inc including organic and inorganic opportunities.  The intern will source and research potential acquisition targets across the insurance, payments, and fintech ecosystem, and build business cases to understand the ROI of various investment opportunities. You will build target lists, develop investment/partnership theses, and support initial screening of opportunities (e.g., partnerships, product expansion, and M&A) by synthesizing market, competitive, and company-specific insights into clear recommendations for senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Source and research specific companies that align with One Inc’s priorities (e.g., digital payments, tuck-in technology capabilities to bolster its existing products).
• Build and maintain market maps/landscapes (segments, key players, value chains) and track relevant news, funding, and competitive moves.
• Conduct structured diligence-lite: business model, product capabilities, customer base, differentiation, leadership, and strategic fit.
• Support the evaluation of opportunities by building or refining market sizing, unit economics, and high-level financial/valuation analyses.
• Help maintain a pipeline and prioritization framework (target lists, screening criteria, scoring, and next steps) to focus effort on the highest-potential opportunities.
• Develop business cases to evaluate organic and inorganic growth opportunities, specifically documenting and aligning with relevant internal stakeholders on assumptions and methodology. 
• Assist in creating lightweight dashboards and recurring updates to track the opportunity pipeline, key hypotheses, and outcomes against defined success metrics.
• Synthesize findings into concise, executive-ready memos and presentations with clear recommendations and decision points.

Skills needed:

• Strong analytical, research, and synthesis skills; able to turn ambiguous questions into structured analyses.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint (comfortable building clean models, market maps, and executive presentations).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Interest in strategy/corporate development and the insurance payments ecosystem; curious about business models, competitive dynamics, and growth drivers
• Preferred: prior internship experience in consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, corporate development, or venture capital.

Education & Experience:

• Currently enrolled in an MBA or other relevant graduate program (e.g., MS in Finance, Economics, Analytics, or related field), with prior experience in strategy, research, investment analysis, corporate development, consulting, or an adjacent role.

Desired Traits:

• Comfortable with ambiguity, problem solver, Self-starter, demonstrates ethical behavior, strong drive, team player, supportive & adaptable to change, exudes a commitment to personal & professional development

Physical Demands:

The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Environment:

Standard indoor office setting; exposure to computer screens.

Physical:

Requires repetitive motion. Substantial movements/motions of the wrists hands, and/or fingers.  Sufficient mobility to work in an office setting; stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; operate office equipment including use of a computer keyboard, mouse, scanner and other tools as needed.

Vision:

See in the normal vision range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents.

Hearing:

Ability to hear in the normal audio range with or without corrections.

  Company Profile:  One Inc provides insurance companies a digital payments platform designed to maximize retention of the new generation of policyholders—while reducing security risks and minimizing payment processing costs. One Inc has become the fastest growing digital payments platform in the insurance industry, and now manages more than $20 billion a year in payments for customers. Our talented, ambitious, and innovative team of professionals work collectively to disrupt, pioneer, and add value to solve challenges for our customers and their insureds. One Inc is a high growth company revolutionizing the industry.

One Inc is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all EEOC legislation in each jurisdiction it operates in.