Intern – Business Analyst (Sustainability)

Orange Silicon Valley is a US subsidiary of Orange, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators, serving more than 253 million customers across 27 countries. Orange Silicon Valley is a passionate, forward-thinking team of experts who thrive by connecting ecosystems and making innovation and technology visible, accessible, and actionable for a responsible digital world.

For more than 20 years, Orange Silicon Valley has been providing strategic insights to the Orange Group worldwide leveraging a unique understanding of the US market. Orange Silicon Valley is headquartered in San Francisco with a regional office in New York.

Internship Overview

As an intern supporting Orange Silicon Valley’s work on sustainability, you will be responsible for researching, understanding, and communicating the impact of new technology on corporate sustainability both for Orange and customers of Orange. This involves supporting efforts to source, qualify, and partner with startups in the sustainability domains of climate tech and decarbonization, digital agriculture, and supply chain.

This role is ideally suited for candidates with a strong interest in technology and experience with business analysis. You should be extremely curious, enjoy research, be a creative thinker, and take ownership over your work. Success in this role will require repeated deep dives into specialized industry verticals to surface relevant technology solutions. Comfort with writing and creating presentations that communicate your findings to upper management and customers is essential. This internship will provide excellent opportunities to learn about corporate innovation strategy across multiple industries and exposure to cutting edge startups.

You’ll have the opportunity to work cross functionally with Marketing and communications, technology analysts, executive leadership, and disruptive innovators, to drive investment analysis, corporate partnerships, and streamlined adoption of newer and better technology and business applications for Orange and Orange’s top customers.

• In this role, the intern will focus on supporting the Sustainability Challenge, the Hello Vision Sustainability Council (a co-innovation program), and potential future projects such as digital agriculture for developing regions.
• Identify, stay current on, and present strategic and business analyses on the emergence of key technology and business trends, with a particular focus on sustainability. 
• Build and maintain relationships with local US innovation ecosystems, including startups, tech companies, investors, carriers, academics, and government laboratories
• Develop industry/technology position papers, startup one-pagers, blog posts & presentations on market trends
• Build and maintain business relationships with innovative and disruptive entities, and share all relevant and vetted investment and acquisition opportunities with Orange’s Corporate VC and M&A units