Business Operations Intern, Commercial Partnerships

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Austin, TX, USA
In-Office
Internship
Hardware • Software • Energy
The Modern Power Company of the Electric Era
The Role
Supports commercial partnerships through market and competitive analysis, financial modeling, go-to-market planning, performance reporting, dashboard development, partner issue resolution, and cross-functional execution. The intern will identify potential partners, evaluate opportunities, help launch new partnerships, and create repeatable processes in a fast-paced business operations environment.
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About Base

Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

About the Role

We are seeking an intern to join Base's Commercial Partnerships team, which supports the day-to-day success of our partners. These partnerships have introduced thousands of homeowners to Base and continue to scale rapidly each week. During your internship you'll be tasked with important problems for the business and expected to deliver just like any other full-time member of the team.

You'll work on two fronts: supporting the day-to-day success of our existing partners, and helping target, analyze, and stand up new partnerships. On the existing side, that means market and competitive analysis, reporting, and problem-solving that keep our partners performing and motivated to win alongside us. On the new side, that means identifying prospective partners, building the business case for why a partnership makes sense, and helping get it off the ground. This is a foundational team that sees the entire lifecycle of a channel partnership and coordinates across sales, marketing, design, finance, product, deployment operations, and membership experience to make it work. You'll have direct visibility across the organization.

What You’ll Do
  • Support market and competitive analysis to identify and evaluate new partnership and market opportunities for the Commercial Partnerships team.

  • Build financial and business case models to size partnership opportunities, test assumptions, and support decisions.

  • Help design and track go-to-market plans for launching new partnerships or expanding into new neighborhoods within existing partners' footprints.

  • Build recurring reporting, dashboards, and check-ins that keep the team and partners informed and aligned on program performance.

  • Turn strategic recommendations into action - work with sales, marketing, design, finance, product, deployment operations, and membership experience to move initiatives from analysis to execution.

  • Support the team in resolving escalated partner issues and turning one-off fixes into documented, repeatable processes.

 
What You'll Bring
  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with comfort building financial models and business cases in Excel.

  • A structured approach to problem-solving - able to break down ambiguous business questions into clear frameworks and recommendations.

  • Interest or experience in market analysis, competitive research, and go-to-market strategy, ideally in a B2B2C or partnership-driven business.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to turn analysis into a clear, concise recommendation.

  • Proficiency in PowerPoint/Slides and Excel; comfort with SQL or other data tools is a plus.

  • A real bias to action. You don’t wait to be told.

  • Comfortable with ambiguity and effective prioritization in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

 
About the Team

The Base business operations team is responsible for some of the company's highest-leverage outcomes: financing our growth, commercial partnerships, acquisitions and integrations, new market and product entries, and the programs that span too many teams to have a natural owner. It is a set of small teams of generalists who work directly with Base's founders, pick up the problem that matters most, build the structure and analysis it needs, and hand back something that runs itself.

Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly. Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.

Our Values
  • First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.

  • Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.

  • Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.

  • Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.

  • Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.

  • Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.

  • Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.

Do the best work of your life at Base.

Skills Required

  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills
  • Experience building financial models and business cases in Excel
  • Structured problem-solving skills and ability to develop clear frameworks and recommendations
  • Interest or experience in market analysis, competitive research, and go-to-market strategy
  • Experience in a B2B2C or partnership-driven business
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficiency in PowerPoint or Slides and Excel
  • Comfort with SQL or other data tools
  • Bias to action and ability to work independently
  • Comfort with ambiguity and effective prioritization in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
230 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Our mission at Base is to fix the power grid and enable affordable and reliable electricity for all. As America electrifies, our outdated power systems strain leaving families vulnerable to outages and rising costs. Base deploys home batteries that maintain household power during outages while stabilizing the grid day-to-day. By creating a distributed energy storage network across Texas, we're making electricity more reliable & affordable, and laying the foundation for energy abundance at scale.

Why Work With Us

We are building America’s Next-Generation Power Company; the first engineering-led, technology-focused, R&D-driven electricity company. We are a team of tenacious engineers, operators, and creatives who have solved hard problems. If you’re passionate about tackling one of the most critical challenges of our time, now is the time to join us.

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