Business Operations Intern
About Us
TBD Investors is a private investment firm that backs exceptional searchers and entrepreneurs as they acquire, operate, and build enduring companies. We invest our own capital, often as a lead investor and alongside other investors such as Nashton, and work closely with entrepreneurs across sourcing, due diligence, acquisitions, and business growth.
Our companies help children receive therapy, support teenagers struggling with mental health, provide primary and specialty medical care, simplify patient billing and communication, protect homes and buildings through roofing and electrical services, teach safer driving, keep commercial vessels operating, help families honor loved ones, and develop technology for accounting, education, and other industries.
You can learn more about our work, the entrepreneurs we back, and our portfolio companies on our LinkedIn page or on our website.
About the Role
TBD Investors is seeking a Business Operations Intern to support operational, strategic, and growth initiatives across our portfolio companies.
This role is ideal for a student who is analytical, organized, curious, and excited to work directly on real business problems. Interns may help portfolio companies improve processes, analyze performance, support expansion projects, conduct market research, build simple operating dashboards, and assist CEOs and operating teams with high-priority initiatives.
The work will vary by portfolio company, but the goal is the same: help growing businesses become better, faster, and more disciplined.
Responsibilities
- The Business Operations Intern may support projects such as:
- Conducting market, competitor, and industry research
- Supporting operational improvement projects across portfolio companies
- Helping build or update simple dashboards, trackers, and performance reports
- Analyzing customer, revenue, location, staffing, or marketing data
- Supporting new location, market expansion, or growth initiatives
- Helping document and improve internal processes
- Assisting with recruiting, onboarding, training, or people operations projects
- Preparing short memos, presentations, and analysis for company leaders
- Supporting vendor, customer, or partnership research
- Helping portfolio company leaders identify problems, test solutions, and track progress
- Working on special projects for CEOs, operators, and TBD Investors team members
Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who is:
- Analytical, practical, and comfortable solving open-ended problems
- A strong communicator with clear writing skills
- Organized and able to manage multiple projects at once
- Comfortable working in fast-moving, entrepreneurial environments
- Interested in business operations, growth, private equity, healthcare, entrepreneurship, or entrepreneurship through acquisition
- Comfortable with Excel/Google Sheets, PowerPoint/Google Slides, Google Docs, and basic research tools
- Willing to take initiative, ask good questions, and improve based on feedback
- Excited by real company-building work rather than purely theoretical assignments
- Prior experience in consulting, finance, startups, healthcare, marketing, analytics, or operations is helpful but not required. We care more about judgment, work ethic, curiosity, and the ability to get things done.
What You Will Learn
This internship offers exposure to how growing companies actually operate. Interns will work on practical projects that help portfolio companies improve performance, expand into new markets, serve customers better, and build stronger teams.
You will gain experience across areas such as:
- Business operations
- Market research
- Growth strategy
- Data analysis
- Process improvement
- Customer experience
- Portfolio company management
- Entrepreneurship through acquisition
- Working with CEOs and operators in growing companies
How to Apply
To learn more about internship opportunities with TBD Investors and our portfolio companies, please visit the TBD Investors LinkedIn page: