Strategy MBA Intern at Wagmo

What We Do

Wagmo is a modern pet healthcare company built around how pet parents actually care for their pets. We partner with employers to provide a complete approach to pet and pet-parent wellbeing, from preventive wellness plans and emergency coverage to 24/7 pet telehealth guidance. Our purpose is to unlock every pet parent’s potential to provide extraordinary care, and we do it by bringing the same intentionality to pet benefits that the best employers bring to human healthcare. Founded in 2017 and female-founded, Wagmo is headquartered in New York City and trusted by leading employers nationwide.

What’s Important To Us

Our mission shapes everything we build and how we work together. We take fearless ownership of outcomes, collaborate with radical candor, and are always driven by the customers and pet parents who trust us. We think critically, follow through relentlessly, and find the extra 10% that turns good work into exceptional work. We keep it weird because the obvious answer is rarely the most interesting one. Our values aren’t aspirational. We interview for them and hold each other accountable to them. If what you’ve read so far resonates with you and you want to be part of a team where every person makes the company meaningfully better, we’d love to hear from you.

About The Role

As a Strategy MBA Intern at Wagmo, you will work directly with the CEO and executive team on high-priority strategic initiatives that strengthen and scale our core business. The work is deeply quantitative: you’ll spend your summer building models, analyzing data, and turning numbers into clear recommendations that leadership can act on. Projects will span competitive and market research across the pet industry, pricing and plan economics, product investment analysis, and evaluations of adjacent business opportunities, all with direct exposure to how a high-growth company makes strategic decisions. This is an ideal role for someone who loves spreadsheets, thinks critically about business problems, and also happens to be obsessed with their cat or dog.

Location: This is a hybrid internship based in NYC; interns must be willing and able to work in-office at least three days per week.

Core Responsibilities

• Conduct a comprehensive analysis of the pet industry landscape: mapping established and emerging players, identifying whitespace, and developing a market positioning framework that informs Wagmo’s strategic priorities

• Lead pricing and plan economics analyses, including evaluation of plan structures, cost benchmarks, utilization patterns, and contribution margins across key segments to support data-driven recommendations on plan design

• Build and maintain financial models including scenario analyses, pro forma projections for new product areas, and margin analyses that support executive decision-making

• Own projections and business cases for potential product investments, working with the product team to model expected adoption, engagement, and economic impact of new capabilities

• Evaluate adjacent strategic opportunities such as enhancements to our current membership offerings and potential partnership structures, developing frameworks and economic models to guide leadership decisions

• Create executive-ready memos, presentations, and briefing materials synthesizing insights, risks, and strategic recommendations for the CEO and senior team

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Currently enrolled in an MBA program or a recent MBA graduate

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with the ability to build clean, well-structured financial models from scratch

• Advanced spreadsheet skills and comfort working in data-heavy, model-intensive environments

• Clear, structured writing and the ability to synthesize complex analysis into concise, actionable executive-ready deliverables

• High ownership and sound judgment: you can take a fuzzy, ambiguous problem and produce a crisp, well-reasoned output with minimal hand-holding

• Interest in strategy, pricing, product analytics, startups, and the pet, healthcare, or benefits space

• Demonstrated ability to creatively leverage AI tools for data analysis, market research, or financial modeling is a strong plus

Why Consider This Role?

• Pet spending in the U.S. has reached $200 billion and the category is still early in its lifecycle. Wagmo is building the platform to lead it. This is a rare chance to own strategic analyses that will directly shape how the business prices, invests, and grows.

• You won’t be fetching coffee or building decks no one reads. You’ll have direct exposure to real strategic decisions, working directly with the CEO and senior leaders who give feedback on your models, memos, and executive storytelling.

• Wagmo is a female-founded, Inc. 5000 recognized company where performance matters more than pedigree. The team is exceptionally smart, curious, and kind, led by transparent and low-ego leadership. We take the work seriously and never take ourselves too seriously.

Key Benefits

• Mentorship from CEO and senior leadership with direct feedback on your work

• Dog-friendly NYC office

• Weekly catered lunches

• Monthly team all hands + regular team gatherings