2027 Summer Associate - Richmond

Prophet Application•Richmond, VA

About The Position

The Summer Associate Program is an eight-week internship offering hands-on experience solving client business challenges. Summer Associates work across the firm with colleagues from nearly every discipline, contributing to research, analysis, strategy, and client-facing storytelling aimed at driving top-line growth. Interns take on meaningful responsibility, work directly with leaders and clients, develop consulting skills, and receive mentorship and feedback. The internship is based in Richmond, and any full-time offer after the internship would be for the same office.

Requirements

Be a rising senior pursuing a BA or BS degree, with demonstrated academic performance.
Demonstrate critical-thinking, problem-solving, and creative-thinking capabilities.
Be comfortable using AI tools for research, synthesis, and building, and curious about exploring new tools.
Have superior verbal and written communication skills.
Have business acumen and an interest in understanding how companies grow and transform, including brand, digital, and marketing strategy.
Be curious, committed to finding answers, willing to test new approaches and learn new skills, and able to challenge assumptions.
Be comfortable with ambiguity and able to adapt to changing client, project, and team circumstances.
Not require employment sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

Business, Economics, or Management major preferred.

Responsibilities

Research industries, markets, and customer behavior using primary and secondary research to identify insights that support client growth and transformation.
Combine creative and analytical thinking across brand, culture, digital, marketing, operations, and strategy challenges.
Synthesize interviews, data, and market scans into a point of view and identify implications beyond reporting research findings.
Analyze data, develop hypotheses, and turn research into persuasive presentations and frameworks for internal leaders and clients.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on challenges involving growth, brand, transformation, new platforms, and market entry.
Use traditional research and analysis methods alongside AI and other tools where they are useful.
Own assigned work, follow through, flag risks, maintain quality and meet deadlines, and track project notes, decisions, and status.
Support firm growth and culture through proposal work, office initiatives, social events, and thought leadership.
Develop a point of view in writing and presentations and contribute in discussions with senior teammates and clients.
Build relationships across offices and disciplines through intern events, coffee chats, and firm-wide programming.