Private Equity Investment Intern

Viking Global · Investment - Private

Where: New York, NY
Posted: Sep 23

Founded in 1999, Viking Global Investors (“Viking”) is a global investment firm with a long-term, fundamental, research-intensive approach to investing. Viking manages more than $56 billion of capital across public and private investments. Viking has offices in Stamford, New York, Hong Kong, London, and San Francisco, and is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information, please visit vikingglobal.com.

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Join our 19-person private equity investment team this summer to develop your investing toolkit and explore actionable investment ideas. Throughout your 10-week experience, you will partner directly with members of the team to source, diligence, and execute private equity investment opportunities across sectors, leveraging our fundamental, research-intensive approach.

What you'd do

Performing quantitative and qualitative analysis on prospective investments, including financial modeling and intensive operational due diligence (e.g., meeting with company management, speaking with customers, understanding competitive dynamics)
Thoroughly researching an investment theme and presenting key findings to the investment team
Contributing to Viking’s overall research effort by sharing information and insights across the investment team
Please submit your resume/application through the website: here
At this time, we are only accepting applications from first-year full-time MBA candidates.
Application deadline: December 3, 2026 (11:59PM ET).

What they want

Passion for research and investing
Intellectual honesty: admits when they are wrong, advocates when they are right and the team believes otherwise and does not over or under “sell” investment ideas.
Independence of thought: we strive to be unbiased and develop objective, data-centric theses to drive investment
Strong quantitative and analytical abilities: has the intellectual toolkit to support investment theses with highly differentiated research. Possesses the ability to identify and assess not-obvious aspects of a business’s quality.
Entrepreneurial and self-starting: takes a proactive approach to responsibilities, fitting in with a team of high-performing, motivated investment professionals.
Commerciality: possesses passion for evaluating the merits of business opportunities and drivers of financial success across a range of industries.
Presence: demonstrates maturity, good judgment, and efficient communication internally and externally.