2027 Summer Associate - San Francisco

Prophet Application•San Francisco, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

We're a consulting firm built to find growth where others don't see it. Real growth comes from understanding a business inside and out: how it makes money, where its customers are headed, and what has to change to get there. It's spotting the white space competitors miss and turning it into a client's next big move. Our Summer Associate Program is built to teach exactly that, from the ground up. Over our 8 week internship, Summer Associates work across the firm with colleagues from nearly every discipline in order to solve our client's business challenges. You won't be watching from the sidelines: you'll learn our approach by doing the work itself from research, analysis, and strategy, to the storytelling that ties it together, all pointed at real top-line growth for real clients. From day one, that means work with real impact for clients and their customers. It means stepping into meaningful responsibility faster than you'd expect, working directly with leaders and clients. It means building next-generation skills that keep you ahead of where business is going. And it means growing a career that connects to what you actually value, not just the client work in front of you.

Requirements

Rising senior, earning a BA or BS degree with demonstrated academic performance (Business, Economics, Management majors preferred, not required)
Well-developed critical thinking capabilities, problem-solving skills, and creative thinking
Comfort working with AI tools for research, synthesis, and building and curiosity to keep exploring new ones
Superior communication skills, both verbal and written
Business acumen and a passion for understanding what grows and transforms companies; brand, digital, and marketing strategy included, but not the whole picture
A curious mind with an unrelenting commitment to get to the answer, to test new approaches, learn new skills, and push others' assumptions
Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to adapt, flex, and change directions given client, project, and team circumstances, understanding the ever-changing business world
Unable to move forward with anyone requiring sponsorship now, or in the future.

Responsibilities

Understand the business and the customer by digging into industries, markets, and customer behavior to understand how clients grow, using primary and secondary research to uncover insights that drive transformation.
Blend creative and analytical thinking to build business acumen to know what moves a client's numbers and the creative instinct to bring ideas to life.
Synthesize information to connect the dots by pulling together interviews, data, and market scans to form a point of view, going beyond AI outputs and reporting desk research findings.
Contribute to creative problem-solving and storytelling by analyzing data, shaping hypotheses, and turning research into persuasive presentations and frameworks; learning to frame the "so what" and present recommendations to internal leaders and clients.
Collaborate on complex challenges across multidisciplinary teams to answer big questions on topics like growth, brand, and transformation from new platforms to market entry; contributing your point of view and refining it through feedback.
Explore and work with the full consulting toolkit, including AI, using traditional research and analysis alongside AI, applied where it genuinely helps.
Keep your project moving by taking ownership of your piece of the work; following through, flagging risks early, and holding yourself accountable for quality and deadlines.
Play a role beyond project work by contributing to firm growth and culture through supporting proposals, office initiatives, social events, and thought leadership.
Learn fast, grow early, lead with a point of view with exposure to senior teammates and clients, and regular feedback and mentorship.
Work and grow as part of a team, being paired with a project coach and a peer buddy from day one and growing through team-based mentorship and feedback.
Build relationships across the firm through built-in opportunities to get to know people across offices and disciplines through intern events, coffee chats, and firm-wide programming.
Experience what it means to be an Associate by taking on real project work and getting a genuine feel for life as an Associate at the firm.