Corporate Development & Strategy MBA Intern

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 Corporate Development & Strategy Intern at Wagmo, you will work directly with the executive team on strategic initiatives and diligence projects that fuel our next phase of growth. This is a high-impact role for someone who loves diving deep into numbers and strategy and who also happens to be obsessed with their cat or dog. You’ll help evaluate partnerships, potential acquisitions, and adjacent market opportunities within the massive and growing pet industry, translating research and analysis into clear, actionable recommendations for leadership.

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

• Support market and competitive research across pet, benefits, insurance, and adjacent categories to identify strategic opportunities

• Build and refine financial models including unit economics, synergy cases, pro forma projections, and scenario analyses

• Assist with target sourcing by building and prioritizing lists of potential partners, acquirers, or acquisition targets, and developing outreach materials

• Help run diligence workstreams: coordinating data requests, conducting analysis, documenting findings, and synthesizing results into clear takeaways

• Create executive-ready memos, presentations, and briefing materials summarizing insights, risks, and strategic recommendations

• Track key deals and workstreams, helping keep timelines, stakeholders, and deliverables organized across the team

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

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

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

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

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

• Interest in M&A, corporate development, strategy, startups, or the pet/healthcare/benefits space

• Familiarity with or enthusiasm for leveraging AI tools in market research, data synthesis, or financial modeling (e.g., using LLMs for research summaries or scenario analysis)

• Bonus: prior experience with valuation, investment banking, private equity, consulting, growth stage consumer, or SQL

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 work on real corporate development at a company where the strategy you shape today defines the industry tomorrow.

• You won’t be fetching coffee or building decks no one reads. You’ll have direct exposure to real strategic decisions and deal evaluation, 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

• Pet-friendly NYC office

• Weekly catered lunches

• Annual fully-paid company-wide retreat (July) + monthly team all hands + regular team gatherings