At Franklin Templeton, we’re driving our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential but also to contribute to our clients’ achievements.

Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!

Department Title: Undergrad Intern – AI and Digital Transformation (GOE)

Location: The intern candidate must be able to commute into the New York City, NY office each week.  

Position Summary: 

Goals-based Optimization Engine (GOE) is responsible for bringing innovative, award-winning goals-based optimization solutions to the workplace and retirement channels, driving retirement and wealth outcomes to financial advisors and their end investors.

Come join a team of dynamic people, who are passionate about coming up with creative, quantitative, and user experience solutions to real-world investor problems. We are the only product in the industry who is truly providing optimized investment portfolio selection to help investors achieve their goals. We have a culture of innovation, leveraging technologies like reinforcement learning to solve for optimal investment portfolio selection.

Team Culture:

We are a small, highly talented and collaborative team of individuals with an open culture. We celebrate small wins, challenge each other respectfully and support one another where needed.

An AI and Digital Transformation Intern at Franklin Templeton can expect to learn:

• Global wealth and workplace industries GOE serves
• How to combine mathematical optimization with design thinking to develop products
• Brainstorm and define product features

Key Responsibilities Can Include:

• Assist in gathering and analyzing requirements from users and stakeholders to develop capabilities to advance GOE.
• Participate in planning sessions and prioritize features based on customer needs and business goals
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and research experts to brainstorm, define and document new product features and enhancements
• Assist in user acceptance testing, bug tracking, and quality efforts to ensure the developed features align with specifications
• Support the creation of presentations for stakeholder meetings and status reports that communicate the progress and next steps

Ideal Qualifications:

• Passionate about product management as a career
• Exceptionally good communication and business analysis skills.
• Excellent Team player and be willing to learn and work under guidance.
• Self motivated and driven with a heightened sense of ownership and accountability
• A passion to keep oneself abreast of the latest digital product management advancements and suggest ways to improve ways of working.
• Exceptional decision-making skills: Ability to prioritize across needs given limited resources
• Superlative communication and consensus building skills.

Ready to make moves? Apply today!

When applying, please be sure to attach your resume. Applications without a resume file attachment will not be reviewed.

Due to the large volume of applications anticipated, we may not be able to personally contact every applicant. If you are interested in applying to more than one Franklin Templeton internship, please apply for other internships that pique your interest.

Compensation Range: This is a full-time internship where students will work approximately 35 hours per week and earn competitive hourly pay of $34 USD per hour. There are several factors taken into consideration in making compensation decisions including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. At Franklin Templeton, we apply a total reward philosophy where all aspects of compensation and benefits are taken into consideration in determining compensation. 

What makes Franklin Templeton unique?

We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and supporting our communities. An emphasis on corporate citizenship is embedded in our culture, and is an important element of how we achieve success.

We are also committed to your learning and development with resources focused around Experience, Exposure, and Education, to help you achieve your professional development goals.

Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation. We invite you to visit us at Franklin Templeton Careers to learn more about our company, career opportunities and recruitment process.

Franklin Templeton is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. If you believe that you need an accommodation to search for, or apply for, one of our positions please send an email to accommodations@FranklinTempleton.com . In your email, please include the accommodation you are requesting and the job title and job number you are applying for. It may take up to three business days to receive a response to your request. Please note that only requests for accommodations will receive a response.

Experience our welcoming culture and reach your professional and personal potential!

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