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MBA Summer Intern, Insights

Elevate
Charlotte, NC Intern
POSTED ON 4/1/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/29/2026
About Elevate

Elevate is a full-service consulting firm that inspires high-performing organizations to find their limits and push past them. With expertise in brand consulting, sales strategy, data-driven insights, and talent optimization, Elevate gives its clients a competitive edge in the fight for people’s precious time and attention. Established in 2018, Elevate set out to help sports teams and leagues spark innovation and drive performance. In the years since, the world of sports has transformed, today standing at the convergence of media, entertainment, and consumer brands, with Elevate supporting some of the world’s most ambitious businesses across these sectors. Elevate’s proprietary technology, data sources, and software products combined with our thoughtful insights, and people-centric approach give clients a 360-degree view of their customers, underpinning intelligent decision-making on marketing spend, growth strategy, and more.

Our team of 400 employees spans the globe with in 20 locations worldwide. We value recruiting diverse individuals to our team to bring new perspectives to our company and look forward to learning more about you in the recruitment process. To learn more and see what we’ve been up to, follow Elevate on X, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

Summer Mba Intern, Insights – Overview

Elevate is looking for up to two Summer MBA Interns to partner with our internal consulting team. Individuals will focus on supporting projects for Elevate’s clients focused on enhancing fan experience and operational performance in sports and entertainment. You will support project objectives and help structure problems, conduct primary and secondary research, conduct business analyses, develop presentations, and support project implementation. This role will cover a range of services across our business, including hospitality design, partnership sales, partnership valuation, and brand representation.

This is an on-site position with our Insights team. The role may require the ability to work flexible schedules, including weekends and holidays. Candidates must be able to work on-site in one of our offices in Charlotte, NC, New York, NY or Santa Clara, CA. (These Internships do not have relocation assistance available.)

Responsibilities

  • Support ongoing engagements and projects focused on helping improve revenue streams and fan experiences for sports properties
  • Formulate and test hypothesis related to client projects or business methods using quantitative analysis and delivering insights that drive business impact
  • Develop and present fan insights and recommendations to internal team members and external stakeholders
  • Analyze complex, high-volume data sets to identify narrative trends and actionable insights
  • Build high-quality visualizations that illustrate the stories underlying the data we collect
  • Build financial models to inform clients and team’s pricing & packaging strategies, and revenue forecasting
  • Support survey development, execution, and report building, including content development and survey design
  • Support focus group sessions, including content development, fan coordination and segmentation, transcript analysis, etc.
  • Perform detailed sports, and entertainment industry research focused on (but not limited to) professional teams, live entertainment venues, college landscape, digital and social activation trends, partnership sales, and more.

Qualifications

The following are our target qualifications for this role. Note that reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Eligibility/Education/Experience

  • Must be enrolled in a full-time, 2-year MBA program and in-between first and second years of enrollment
  • Previous experience in the sports industry, management consulting, investment banking, and/or media/entertainment/tech is a plus but not required
  • Must be able to work on-site in Charlotte, NC or New York, NY or Santa Clara, CA

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

  • Strategic and critical thinker who is dynamic, proactive, and a problem-solver
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentation and public-speaking experience
  • Ability to conduct rigorous data analysis resulting in high-quality models and presentations
  • Ability to develop frameworks and project management tools to guide project approach, timelines, reporting, and decision-making
  • Positive, can-do attitude with a willingness to be an outstanding team and encourage those around them
  • Ability to multi-task with concurrent projects and prioritize under the pressure of deadlines
  • Ability to conduct data analysis resulting in high-quality models and presentations
  • Intellectual curiosity, creativity, analytical approach, attention to detail, and results-driven
  • Power user of the MS Office suite, particularly Excel
  • Power user of the Google Drive suite, particularly Google Slides & Google Sheets

Preferences

  • Prior experience in an investment banking, consulting, or other analyst role is a plus
  • Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau) is a plus
  • Familiarity with surveying visualization tools (e.g., Qualtrics ) is a plus
  • Prior experience with Data warehouses, SQL, and/or Python is a plus
  • Prior experience using CRM systems (i.e., Salesforce, MS Dynamics) is a plus

This is a non-exempt, temporary position. We are seeking candidates that can commit to a 12-week internship and work 40 hours a week. Compensation for the Internship is up to $35.00/hr.

This position is open to all qualified candidates. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability in connection with the application process, you may contact us at HR@oneelevate.com

We are proud to be an equal opportunity/veterans/disabled/ LGBT employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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