Summer 2027 Corporate Intern: Economist

The Internship

Held over an 11-week period during the summer of 2027 for undergrad students graduating between December 2027 and August 2028. The paid internship will prepare associates for a career with Walmart Economics team. Work on a meaningful project, network with industry experts, and develop your skills while having an epic summer!

About the Economist Internship

As the Fortune One company, Walmart sells hundreds of billions of dollars a year in merchandise and employs more than one million people. Walmart's scale and the complexity of its problems necessitate careful, sophisticated analysis. The Walmart Economics team is responsible for applying the latest insights and methods from academia to drive Walmart's decision making and continued transformation.

The Walmart Economics team is growing quickly. Economists on the team work with the Chief Economist on projects across the company, including:

• Optimizing pricing
• Growing membership and subscriptions
• Increasing our sustainability
• Developing a thriving marketplace

Interns are fully immersed in the team and can expect to take on a short-term version or a component of a full-time project. You will partner with business and tech teams in our Home Office to use tools from Economics to understand the causal impact of decisions, identify and optimize tradeoffs, and drive strategy using first principles. Interns work on projects with real-world impact while gaining experience working at one of the largest companies in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and analyzing experiments Guide decision making by ensuring we understand the impact of potential changes through careful experimentation
• Performing causal inference Leverage the latest in econometrics and statistics to understand the effect of changes we cannot run experimentally
• Framing and evaluating trade-offs Define and weigh business trade-offs to drive strategic decisions under uncertainty
• Applying behavioral economics Use an understanding of behavioral economics to inform user experience design

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be actively enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program.
• Expected graduation date between December 2027 - August 2028.
• Experience with analyzing large datasets (ideally coding in SQL, R, or Python) is a plus
• Passion for economics or experience assisting with academic research
• You're curious and a self-starter, naturally interested in learning more
• You're collaborative and uplift your team when you partner with others
• You enjoy hard problems
• You have knowledge of experimentation and causal inference methods

Walmart and Sams Club does offer housing and relocation benefits to students that meet qualifications.

A successful candidate will not require sponsorship from Walmart for authorization to work now or in the future. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The hourly wage range for this position is $25.00 - $48.00The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location.