Strategy & Management Associate Program

Driving innovation while transforming your career at the world’s best financial services firm begins with you.

About Bank of America

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Strategy and Management Program

The Strategy and Management Program is our elite, two-year development program that prepares teammates to become future corporate leaders at Bank of America by providing you with direct experience in Digital Technologies, FinTech, Strategy, Innovation, and Management. Teammates will work in our innovation function (Bank of America Strategy and Business Ventures) helping drive strategic growth initiatives across our core business units. You will be exposed to multiple parts of our business and learn how to develop, test, launch, and operationalize new strategies to better serve our clients. You will also participate in a comprehensive training curriculum taught by BofA and industry experts, designed to enable general manager capabilities. Bank of America’s Strategy & Business Ventures team functions as an internal strategic consulting function for a wide range of leaders across the bank. This group provides high-fidelity learning opportunities in broadly relevant skills (research, modeling, presentations, problem solving methodologies, data visualization and storytelling) and will provide exposure to a diverse array of people, processes, and organizations within the bank.

As a Bank of America Strategy and Business Ventures teammate, you will build and accelerate new business capabilities (client experience, product innovation, FinTech, strategic ventures, portfolio management). You will be part of the leading consumer financial services organization in the world, comprised of 70,000+ teammates, serving 66 million clients, and consistently recognized for excellence, including 125+ industry awards in 2021 (Best Bank & Digital Bank, Best Bank for College Students, Most Innovative Bank, #1 Overall for Client Experience, Best Bank for Small Businesses, Top Company for Diversity Leadership, Best Workplace for Women, etc.).

You will be a part of a team that drives initiatives which have the potential to shape industries, given our reach (10 billion annual client interactions, 4,000+ financial centers nationwide) and cutting-edge expertise (4,000 patents, 6,000 teammates are inventors). From day one, you will receive career support and resources from our dedicated Campus team and professional development from our Award-Winning Academy at Bank of America.

Full-time program will accelerate your career

• A two-year program, designed to develop Bank of America's future leaders by providing an experience to support multiple business units with senior leaders and industry experts
• During the program you will be embedded in Bank of America's, Strategy & Business Ventures organization, where you will take part in a comprehensive training program while working in a cross-functional capacity to shape the future of the Consumer & Small Business line of business
• You will drive strategic initiatives across high-visibility and fast-growing areas of the business, including FinTech, Product Innovation, Client Segmentation, Client Experience, Strategic Ventures, Portfolio Management, and Business Intelligence
• You will learn about and leverage the latest emerging technology (AI, Cloud, Automation, Personalization) to evolve our business

Required Qualifications

• Is pursuing an MBA or master’s degree from an accredited college or university with a graduation timeframe between Dec 2025 and August 2026
• Pursuing a field which includes but is not limited to: Management, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Data Analysis, FinTech, Product Management, Project Management
• 3-5 years of work experience between bachelor’s and MBA or masters with a demonstrated record of achievement
• 3.2 minimum GPA preferred
• History of high achievement and is a highly motivated self-starter
• Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset, and can adapt to change quickly with a positive manner
• Gets excited about solving problems
• Appreciates an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking
• Demonstrates analytic problem-solving skills, with a creative outlook
• Builds and nurtures strong relationships, while collaborating to get things done
• Demonstrates strong logical reasoning, listening, communication, and presentation skills

Desired Skills

• Are excited about enabling financial service solutions for Consumer & Small Business clients and reimagining the future of banking
• Have been part of high-performing teams or organizations
• Have experience leading and organizing projects

Please note:

Bank of America is unable to consider candidates that will require visa sponsorship now, or in the future, for this specific role.

If offered a full-time opportunity you will need to be geographically flexible with regards to your work location to be eligible.

To ensure you receive all application updates from our team, we encourage you to add the domain '@bankcampuscareers.tal.net' to your approved emails.

Travel: On needs basis

Full / Part-time: Full time

Hours Per Week: 40.00

Shift: 1st Shift

Location: Charlotte, NC, Boston, MA, New York, NY

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individuals, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company serves approximately 56 million U.S. consumer and small business relationships. It is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading.