Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.

Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.

For more information, please visit americancentury.com.

Are you seeking an opportunity to gain outstanding hands-on experience with a reputable firm in KC?

As an InfoSec Intern you will be brought on to our team to learn the ins and outs of the Cyber Operations security team within a corporate setting. Your projects and training will be focused on cloud security, phishing, data loss prevention, and incident response activities that will uphold the security and operations of the firm. You will also learn about defining and detailing security processes and procedures in a corporate setting. Interns for this group will act as first responders alongside their peers for cyber incidents that come in, to provide critical assessment of each report. They will also assist in deploying security controls within a hybrid cloud environment.

You will apply the knowledge you have acquired from your coursework and from the mentors within your team toward meaningful opportunities and projects.

Here are some attributes that we are looking for in our next intern:

• Model the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors- Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitive Drive
• Currently pursuing current Bachelors' degree within Cloud Security, Data Security, InfoSec or related field
• Passion for gaining experience with Information Security and Risk Management

Here's Why You Should Choose ACI:

• Our interns receive competitive pay! As well as 401k eligibility for contributions
• We offer a Mentor Program: a designated mentor will be assigned to you during your time with us to provide career coaching and mentorship
• Housing assistance for any interns that join us with a permanent residence outside of the Kansas City Metro Area
• Access to Business Resource Groups that you can ally and participate with (Accelerate, Charlie Mike, Emerging Professionals, Enable, Pride, Mosaic )
• Casual dress code - you can be comfortable and express your outstanding self
• A robust social, networking and philanthropic calendar of events hosted just for interns!

Additional Requirements:

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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