MBA Intern - Hardware Operations

As a member of our Hardware Operations team, you will play an integral role in building a world-class supply chain that is responsive, customer-focused, and capital-efficient.

This is a generalist internship designed to match you with the area of highest impact. Approximately two months prior to the start of your internship, we will match you with one of our four core operational pillars—Procurement, Global Operations, Supply Chain, or Fulfillment. This timing allows us to align your work with the most critical real-time business needs while considering your specific interests and skillset.

Your core responsibility will be leading 1–2 strategic projects focused on improving a critical part of the business. Beyond project work, you will also have exposure to the day-to-day operations of your selected group, gaining hands-on experience in running a global supply chain.

Depending on your specific placement, your project scope and daily focus will cover:

• Procurement: You may lead projects on supplier selection or structuring strategic deals. Your day-to-day will involve exposure to negotiations and vendor management.
• Global Operations: You may drive a project on logistics strategy or international expansion. Your day-to-day exposure will likely involve managing 3PL partnerships and freight operations.
• Supply Chain: You may scope a project improving production management or inbound/reverse logistics. In your daily role, you will see how we handle demand/supply planning to balance inventory.
• Fulfillment: You may tackle a project regarding distribution network logic or order processing efficiency. Day-to-day, you will be exposed to the workflows that drive our customer service experience.

• Currently enrolled in a full-time MBA program graduating in 2027.
• Ability to work at Verkada HQ (San Mateo, CA) for Summer 2026.
• High-impact self-starter: you take initiative to move projects forward and can operate well with little guidance. You’re excited by the possibility of leading cross-functional workstreams and generating buy-in among senior leadership. 
• Raw smarts: we are looking for people who can look at complex problems and solve them start to finish. Strong analytical skills: you nerd out about data, can quickly structure analyses to answer key business questions to drive decision-making, and will also have perspectives on building the right data architecture. Excel skills are a must; SQL / Tableau / Looker experience a plus.
• Process and operational thinking: you can tackle a problem independently and quickly iterate to a solution, and then also document it in a way that's easy to understand for all audiences. Previous Salesforce experience is a plus.
• Communication and stakeholder management: you'll need to be able to connect with sales reps and hardware engineers alike to figure out how we build the right processes and workflows to drive efficiency while also giving us the data to measure how we're doing. Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must.
• Flexibility and hustle: you manage change and ambiguity well, and have no problems juggling multiple priorities while executing in a fast-paced environment. You’re comfortable pivoting quickly and often.
• 3+ years of professional experience with a passion for Supply Chain and Operations

Verkada is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all employees. Our benefits and perks programs for interns include but are not limited to: 

• Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily
• Monthly housing stipend (in addition to hourly wage)
• Fully-covered flights to-and-from our San Mateo HQ office
• Intern events and mixers

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.