Wiggle Room / Data & Operations Intern | Company Ventures

This is a role with a startup in the Blackstone LaunchPad internship program, through this company’s relationship with LaunchPad partner, Company Ventures. Please note all hiring decisions are made by each applicable company. Students are encouraged to conduct their own research and diligence on each employer and on any internship opportunity offered by any employer. Learn more about Company Ventures here

Please note that through Blackstone LaunchPad’s partnership with Company Ventures, this role is ONLY open for students currently enrolled at City University of New York (CUNY) schools. Only CUNY students will be invited to interview and participate.

About the program:

Blackstone LaunchPad is committed to equipping primarily first generation and low-income college students with career skills and exposure for career success. Learn more here. The Blackstone LaunchPad Summer Internship Program connects students to meaningful opportunities at Blackstone and LaunchPad employer partners: Blackstone portfolio companies and select startups. Please note all hiring and employment-related decisions, including compensation and the terms and conditions of employment, are made by each applicable company. Students are encouraged to conduct their own research and diligence on each employer and on any internship opportunity offered by any employer.

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🏠 Company Overview
Wiggle Room is an early-stage startup with a mission to solve the greatest challenge of our generation: building a dynamic and durable early childcare system that works for parents, providers, and children. Our focus is on the Family Child Care (FCC) industry, the country's largest source of care for young children. Our inaugural product, AutoEnroll, streamlines regulatory paperwork for FCCs. We have early traction and providers are using and loving our product!

Watch CEO and founder, Jaime-Jin Lewis, talk about Wiggle Room here: https://vimeo.com/635008508

We are a Public Benefit Corporation with a social mission to uplift communities that have been overlooked and exploited for too long. We see this as part of the broader reparative and restorative vision for the future.

🔑 Key Responsibilities
Wiggle Room seeks a motivated and effective Data Management Intern to:
Support collection, management, and interpretation of customer data. Help identify trends and opportunities for efficiency.
Get hands-on experience working on products that are delivered directly to customers.
Conducting desk research on various topics and synthesizing findings.
Support maintenance of internal organizational systems.
Assist with some marketing initiatives.

🔩 Skills & Experience
Google Workspaces (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Cal, etc)
Slack
Zoom
Asana (not required)
Hubspot (not required)
Big plus if you speak a language in addition to English!

🏆 What We’re Looking For
You are curious and analytical. You have experience engaging in deep listening, drawing insights from data and stories, and applying them to solve the problem at hand. 
You bring an entrepreneurial mindset. You are resourceful, adaptable in the face of challenges, and possess bias towards creating solutions. 
You are an effective communicator and collaborator. 
You can clearly convey learnings, progress, questions, and needs. 
You communicate with our users from a place of dignity and respect.
You are organized and punctual.
You care about our mission. 
You bring an empathetic lens to building tech for underserved populations.
Maybe you have lived experience with the problem at hand. Even better!


💻 Location
This position is hybrid-first. We will meet regularly and the intern will have the option to work an office or remotely for the remainder of the time. We have a monthly in-person team lunch on Wiggle Room that you’d be invited to. It’s always very yummy :)

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This is a role with a startup in the Blackstone LaunchPad internship program, through this company’s relationship with LaunchPad partner Company Ventures. Please note all hiring decisions are made by each applicable company. Students are encouraged to conduct their own research and diligence on each employer and on any internship opportunity offered by any employer.