MBA Strategy Intern

Available Locations: Austin San Francisco New York

About the Role

Are you passionate about the intersection of technology market strategy and business growth Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy tackling complex high-impact problems Cloudflare is looking for a driven and analytical Summer 2026 MBA Strategy Intern to join our team.

This is a unique opportunity to work alongside Cloudflares leadership and gain hands-on experience in shaping the future direction of a global mission-driven company. You will contribute to projects that directly inform executive-level decision-making and Cloudflares long-term corporate strategy.

Responsibilities

The MBA Strategy Intern will contribute to high-priority strategic initiatives across the company. While the exact projects will depend on Cloudflares internal priorities at the time of the internship potential areas of focus include:

• International Expansion: Conducting market and opportunity assessments developing strategic options and contributing to the creation of a 3-year international growth plan.
• Regulatory Certifications: Analyzing global regulatory requirements prioritizing certifications based on Go-to-Market (GTM) and Sales needs and balancing resourcing within Engineering to develop a 12 year implementation roadmap.
• Strategic Partnerships: Facilitating cross-functional workshops and brainstorming sessions with potential GTM or infrastructure partners in priority markets to identify and develop joint partnership options.
• Competitive Landscape Analysis: Deep diving into emerging competitive threats and market shifts within key Cloudflare product areas (e.g. AI/ML security networking) to produce actionable recommendations for product and sales strategy.
• New Product/Market Entry: Performing a strategic assessment of a potential new product category or emerging customer segment including sizing the opportunity evaluating entry options and outlining a potential launch plan.

Note: The projects listed above are examples of the high-impact work we focus on. None of these projects are guaranteed. The actual internship project(s) will be assigned based on Cloudflares most critical business priorities at the time of the Summer 2026 internship.

Ideal Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a top-tier MBA program or a Masters degree program in a relevant field (e.g. Strategy Finance Technology Management).
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative skills with a proven ability to structure complex problems conduct rigorous analysis (market sizing financial modeling competitive analysis) and synthesize findings into clear concise and compelling narratives.
• Strong communication and presentation skills comfortable engaging with senior leaders and facilitating cross-functional discussions.
• A self-starter with a high degree of intellectual curiosity and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Prior experience in management consulting corporate strategy investment banking or a high-growth technology company is a plus.
• A passion for Cloudflares mission to help build a better Internet and a genuine interest in the underlying technologies (networking security edge computing AI).

Desirable Skills Knowledge and Experience:

• Self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced collaborative and innovative high-growth environment.
• Ability to commit to a full-time 12 week internship.
• In office 3-4 days a week in-office in Austin San Francisco or New York.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• Estimated hourly pay of $55/hour.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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