MBA Strategy Intern
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About the Role
Algebra AI is seeking an MBA Strategy Intern to work on special projects including market and vertical strategy, corporate development support, and strategic analysis. The intern will own projects from framing to presentation, working directly with the CEO.
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Responsibilities
- Map acquisition targets in UAE/MENA professional services verticals
- Analyze market structure, fragmentation, and pricing dynamics
- Build investment thesis for new verticals
- Build financial models and benchmarks for acquisition targets
- Research deal structures, valuation multiples, and financing approaches
- Prepare materials for investor and board conversations
- Analyze competitive positioning
- Build frameworks for use case prioritization, vertical selection, or ICP refinement
- Research AI native services businesses globally
Requirements
- Current MBA student
- Undergraduate background in finance, economics, or related field
- Experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, private equity, or similar analytical role before MBA
- Strong financial modeling skills
- Ability to structure problems from scratch
- Clear and concise writing
- Comfortable with ambiguity
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About Algebra
- Algebra builds and operates AI powered workflows for mid market companies as a managed service.
- We identify high value operational processes, design AI systems to run them, and own the outcome end to end.
- We are not consultants. We do not sell software licenses. We are the accountable operator.
The Role
- This is a strategy internship built around special projects.
- There is no fixed job description because the work will follow what is most important at the time.
- You will own your projects, not support someone else's.
- The CEO will be your primary stakeholder.
What You'll Work On
- Map acquisition targets in UAE/MENA professional services accounting, payroll, tax, compliance, corporate secretarial.
- Analyze market structure, fragmentation, and pricing dynamics in target verticals.
- Build the investment thesis for a new vertical market size, competitive landscape, unit economics, and strategic fit.
- Research comparable roll up platforms globally and extract what applies to Algebra's model.
- Build financial models and benchmarks for acquisition targets.
- Research deal structures, valuation multiples, and financing approaches in M&A.
- Prepare materials for investor and board conversations.
- Analyze Algebra's competitive positioning.
- Build frameworks for use case prioritization, vertical selection, or ICP refinement.
- Research AI native services businesses globally what they are building, how they are priced, and how they scale.
What We're Looking For
- Current MBA student, ideally with an undergraduate background in finance, economics, or a related field.
- You have worked in strategy consulting, investment banking, private equity, or a similar analytical role before your MBA.
- You can structure a problem from scratch break it down, identify what matters, and build toward a clear answer.
- Strong financial modeling skills you are comfortable building a model, not just reading one.
- You write clearly and concisely; you can put a recommendation on one page and defend it.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity not every project will come with a clear brief.
Bonus Points
- You have worked on M&A transactions or market entry projects.
- You have a view on AI and what it does to professional services businesses and you can argue it.
- You have worked inside a startup or early stage business, not just advised one.
What This Role Is Not
- This is not a research assistant role. You will not be summarizing articles or formatting decks for someone else.
- This is not a rotational program with guaranteed exposure to every function. The work will go where the business needs it.
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