Business Development Intern, Intersect
Analytics & Tool Development
$35 USD per hour for undergraduate students / $45 USD per hour for graduate students
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Clean energy company
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Clean energy company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$35 USD per hour for undergraduate students / $45 USD per hour for graduate students
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To preserve our planet for future generations through low-carbon energy and infrastructure solutions.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree (in progress) in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Science, Business, or a related field
- Experience through internships or academic projects in energy, finance, or consulting environments
- Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets for financial modeling and data analysis
- Experience building presentations in PowerPoint or Google Slides for executive audiences
- Working knowledge of Python for data analysis, automation, or modeling
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated interest in energy, infrastructure, or climate-related industries
- Foundational understanding of energy markets, project finance, or infrastructure development
- Familiarity with trends such as electrification, decarbonization, and digitalization
- Exposure to academic or early-career networks within energy, finance, or consulting ecosystems
- A proactive, self-directed work style with the ability to navigate ambiguity and manage competing priorities
- Curiosity, humility, and resilience, with a strong willingness to learn and incorporate feedback
- A commitment to integrity, accountability, and high-quality work, aligned with Intersect’s people-first values
What the job involves
- As part of Intersect’s Business Development team, you’ll help identify, evaluate, and advance new energy and infrastructure opportunities that support long-term growth. This internship offers hands-on exposure to market analysis, strategic evaluation, and business improvement, working closely with cross-functional partners across finance, strategy, and project development
- You’ll contribute directly to shaping business decisions through data-driven insights, clear communication, and thoughtful research
- This team plays a critical role in advancing Intersect’s mission to accelerate the clean energy transition by identifying and developing high-impact opportunities across energy and infrastructure markets
- The Business Development team works at the intersection of strategy, finance, and execution—partnering across functions to evaluate partnerships, shape market entry approaches, and drive long-term value creation. Joining this team offers exposure to complex, high-visibility work and the opportunity to build foundational skills in a fast-moving, collaborative environment
- Conduct research on market and technology trends, emerging business models, and evolving dynamics across energy and infrastructure sectors
- Identify and evaluate new opportunities by synthesizing insights on markets, competitors, and innovation areas
- Build tools, and frameworks to support the Business Development team in prioritizing and advancing strategic initiatives
- Translate research and analysis into actionable inputs that inform strategy and decision-making
- Develop structured analyses in Excel or Google Sheets to assess financial performance and market dynamics
- Use Python to support data analysis, modeling, or process automation
- Synthesize complex datasets into clear, actionable insights for internal stakeholders
- Create clear, professional presentations in PowerPoint or Google Slides to communicate findings and recommendations
- Translate technical, financial, and market information into digestible content for cross-functional audiences
- Present insights and contribute thoughtful, data-backed perspectives in team discussions
- Manage multiple workstreams and deliver high-quality outputs within established timelines
- Maintain strong attention to detail across all analyses and deliverables
- Incorporate feedback quickly to continuously improve quality and effectiveness
- Program Dates: June 1 – August 14
- Duration: 10 weeks
Our take
Intersect is expanding access to clean electricity to help drive broad-based decarbonization. The company develops some of the world's largest clean energy resources and delivers these low-carbon solutions to customers around the globe.
Intersect is redefining what it means to be a clean power developer by constantly looking at new industries that it could vertically integrate into, to get closer to its goal of deep decarbonization. The company was born from innovation, conceived as an alternative to the traditional selling of electricity under long term PPA, which is demonstrative of the company’s determination to challenge the status quo and approach projects at scale without destroying value.
Excitingly, Intersect has partnered with Google and TPG Rise Climate (TPG) to drive the expansion of renewable power and storage solutions for data centers across the US. This collaboration is set to deliver gigawatts of new capacity and catalyze a $20B investment in renewable energy infrastructure by the decades end. With its first co-located clean energy project already in the works and expected to be operation by 2026, Intersect is very much paving the way for a sustainable future in the data center industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
91% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Greenway, Beaverton, OR
Leadership
Sheldon Kimber
(Founder & CEO)Previously acted as COO for Recurrent Energy. Also spent 9 years at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business as a Lecturer.
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