Description

Introduction

We're looking for a motivated college student to join the Chief Sustainability Office as a Sustainability Partnerships Intern. This internship offers a unique opportunity to explore how strategic partnerships accelerate sustainability innovation and business growth leveraging IBM's technologies, ecosystem business partnerships, and thought leadership.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Sustainability Partnerships Intern, you will:

• Support partnership development by researching potential collaborators across technology, industry and sustainability ecosystems.
• Analyze market trends and emerging technologies (AI, quantum, hybrid cloud) to identify opportunities where sustainability can drive business value.
• Assist in creating partner engagement materials, including presentations, briefs, and POVs that showcase IBM's innovation.
• Collaborate on strategic initiatives that integrate sustainability into IBM's offerings and client solutions, focusing on innovation and impact.
• Leverage IBM platforms to generate insights that strengthen partnership proposals and joint value propositions.
• Participate in cross-functional meetings and external forums to support partnerships that can shape industry transformation and demonstrate sustainability leadership.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's program (Business, Sustainability, Environmental Science, Computer Science, or related field).
• Strong research, analytical and strategic thinking skills, with a passion for data-driven decision-making.
• Interest in sustainability as a driver of innovation and business growth.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies (AI, quantum, etc.) and their role in solving global challenges.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Highly organized with a proactive mindset and eagerness to learn.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM's financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 15 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title

Sustainability Partnerships Intern: 2026

Date posted

17-Dec-2025

Job ID

81965

City / Township / Village

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK

State / Province

North Carolina

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type

Co-Op (Fixed Term)

Contract type

Internship

Projected Minimum Salary per year

74,880.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

137,280.00

Position type

Internship

Travel required

Up to 20% or 1 day a week

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No



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