ZestFinance is defining a new product category of explainable AI in credit. Our initial successes have garnered the attention of incumbent companies, other AI/ML companies, and other potential competitors.

In this internship you will:

• Be an aspiring marketer with a strategic eye
• Conduct market research to refresh our understanding of the competitive landscape
• Use these insights to help us define and refresh our competitive positioning that we use in sales and marketing messaging
• Conduct deeper dives on selected competitors to understand on a product-level basis how their features and benefits compares to our offering
• Present a summer-end market intelligence briefing to the product, marketing, and sales teams
• Recommend a plan to continue market intelligence

We are looking for:

• A high-performing rising senior or MBA student focused on marketing
• Experience in market research & analysis
• Presentation skills
• Ability to conduct product comparisons

Perks and benefits:

• People – the best part of Zest
• Dog friendly office with lounge areas, video games and gigantic jigsaw puzzles
• On-site gym with yoga, salsa, and other employee run fitness classes
• Complimentary massages, manicures, pedicures and more
• Daily catered lunches from LA’s best restaurants and fully stocked kitchen
• Company happy hours, social events and outings

About ZestFinance:

ZestFinance, Inc. applies its unique credit-decisioning technology platform — based on data science and machine learning — to help lenders effectively predict credit risk so they can increase revenues, reduce risk and ensure compliance. ZestFinance was founded in 2009 by Douglas Merrill and a team of former Google employees with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone.

We are committed to diversity in hiring, professional development, and everyday discussion. Zest is determined to hire crazy smart people who are different from each other to create broad thinking, lots of different ideas, and by extension, the best team possible.