Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
Role Overview:
The New York Life Summer Internship experience offers an exciting opportunity for rising juniors and seniors looking to gain exposure to a corporate environment. As part of your summer, you'll participate in learning and development activities, gaining insight into our business and how our company functions. The summer internship program also includes additional social and networking opportunities where you will be able to expand your network with peers, mentors and senior leaders.
The Summer Internship opportunity is 10 weeks long, beginning Monday June 1st, 2026, and concluding Thursday, August 6, 2026. Interns will work on a hybrid schedule with Mondays and Fridays remotely.
This internship is located in Overland Park, KS.
What You'll Do:
Transform data into business intelligence and build dashboards that drive decisions with our Institutional Life department.
The Institutional Life Architecture and Engineering team designs and builds the technology infrastructure that powers New York Life's institutional business. We establish technical standards, modernize legacy systems, implement AI and automation solutions, and manage the data ecosystem ensuring our platforms are scalable, secure, and aligned with business strategy.
This pathway is ideal for students who are curious about how businesses use data to make decisions, enjoy working with technology, and want to build skills in analytics, problem-solving, and digital tools that are highly valued in today's workplace.
Projects may include:
- Building out business dashboards for analytics
- Migrating Tableau reports to AWS QuickSight
- Documenting existing Data Models using AI
What You'll Bring:
Must be enrolled at an accredited 4-year university or college with anticipated graduation date between December 2026 and May 2028.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI
- Exposure to Python and AWS Quicksight a plus
- Ability to translate data into meaningful insights and clear visualizations
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities
- Curiosity about digital tools, automation, and technology-driven business solutions
- Coursework or interest in business analytics, data science, information systems, or related fields
Additional Details:
- Interns are expected to work for the duration of the 10-week internship.
- To be eligible for this program, you must be authorized to work in the U.S. We do not offer any type of employment-based immigration sponsorship for this program. Likewise, this program is not available to those authorized to work under optional practical training (OPT) or curricular practical training (CPT).
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Salary range: $25/ hour
Overtime eligible: Nonexempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: No
Sales bonus eligible: No
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What We Do
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of integrity, mutuality, and financial strength fuels a future defined by bold transformation.
As the largest mutual life insurance company in the U.S., we operate on behalf of our policy owners—not shareholders. That structure allows us to take a long-term view, investing in people, purpose, and innovation that endures.
Guided by a clear enterprise vision to become a technology-, data-, and AI-powered company, we’re modernizing our platforms, rearchitecting experiences, and embedding intelligence across our products and services.
Our mission has always been about helping people through life’s most meaningful moments. Today, technology is amplifying that mission—enabling us to serve clients, advisors, and communities in more personalized, proactive ways.
With a diversified business portfolio spanning insurance, investments, retirement, group benefits, and direct-to-consumer offerings, New York Life delivers the stability of a Fortune 100 company with the agility of one that’s continuously evolving.
We’re powered by a values-led culture, inclusive teams, and a shared belief that when our people thrive, so does our company. Here, tradition fuels momentum—and your ideas, energy, and growth power what’s next.
Why Work With Us
New York Life is transforming from the inside out—blending 180 years of trust with the velocity of innovation. What makes us different is our culture: grounded in integrity, humanity, and shared success—values that show up in how we work, lead, and grow. If you want a place where innovation has purpose—build what's next with us.
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