MBA Intern - Product Marketing

About the Role 

As a member of the Product Marketing team, you will have an integral role in both crafting and executing go-to-market strategy across Verkada’s marketing and sales efforts. 

You will join the Product Marketing team as a high-impact contributor, and will gain exposure to a wide variety of the initiatives, products, and customer insights that drive Verkada’s marketing and sales motion. As an intern on the team, you will help steer cross-functional initiatives and projects from ideation to insights, content development, and execution across the GTM lifecycle. 

What You'll Do 

• Develop product and program positioning and competitively differentiated messaging based on user research, market insights, and product knowledge. 
• Gather customer feedback and dig into industry trends, customer use cases, and technology challenges to understand customer needs and challenges. 
• Work closely with Brand, Creative and Demand Generation teams to increase market presence and drive pipeline through key outbound activities (digital and live events, web and doc content, sales assets, emails, etc). 
• Partner with Channel and Sales Enablement teams to effectively position products and programs to help drive market awareness and target outcomes. 
• Bring new collateral to market by taking the lead on product and program launches - planning, creating/managing deliverables and timelines in order to maximize impact. 
• Become a product subject matter expert, evangelist and cross-functional leader who unites Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Product teams to drive business results. 

What You Bring 

• Currently enrolled in a full-time MBA program graduating in 2027. 
• Ability to work at Verkada HQ in San Mateo, CA for Summer 2026.
• Strong ability to write for various audiences, including technical content. 
• Experience working cross-functionally with teams including Product, Engineering, Sales, Creative, and Marketing. 
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and dig into data and technical details.
• 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. 
• 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. 
• 3+ years of professional experience, ideally in consulting, marketing, corporate strategy, or a startup. 
• Strong ability to write for various audiences, including technical content. 
• Previous Product Marketing, Product, or Strategy experience is a plus.

US Intern Benefits

At Verkada, we’re committed to supporting the health, well-being, and personal growth of our interns. Our comprehensive benefits and perks are designed to promote a balanced and rewarding internship experience. Highlights include:

• Monthly housing stipend (in addition to hourly wage)
• Roundtrip flights to and from our San Mateo HQ
• Daily lunch, complimentary barista-made drinks, and fully stocked snacks to keep you fueled
• Intern-exclusive events and mixers
• After 90 days of active employment, interns are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance. We cover 100% of employee premiums under at least one medical plan and 80% of dependent premiums
  
• Time off to rest and recharge through personal sick time and volunteer time off to support causes you care about
  
• Healthy lunches, snacks, and coffee provided daily

Additional Information

• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.