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The Internship
Held over an 11-week period during the summer of 2025 for undergrad students graduating between December 2025 and August 2026. 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 2025-August 2026.
- Experience with analyzing large datasets (ideally coding in SQL, R, or Python) is a plus.
- Passion for economics or experience assisting with academic research.
- Curious and a self-starter, naturally interested in learning more.
- Collaborative and uplift your team when you partner with others.
- Enjoy hard problems.
- Knowledge of experimentation and causal inference methods.
- Willingness to relocate to Walmart’s Home Office Hub (Bentonville, AR) after graduation.
Office Environment:
Corporate, in-person internship.
Job Location:
This role is in Bentonville, AR.
Walmart and Sam’s Club 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.
Live our Values at Walmart:
- Culture Champion: Models the Walmart values to foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; and supports Walmart’s commitment to communities, social justice, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.
- Servant Leadership: Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
- Embrace Change - Curiosity & Courage: Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking.
- Digital Transformation & Change: Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.
- Deliver for the Customer - Customer Focus: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first.
- Strategic Thinking: Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy.
- Focus on our Associates - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Identifies, attracts, and retains diverse and inclusive team members.
- Collaboration & Influence: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners.
- Talent Management: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment.
The hourly wage range for this position is $19.00-$35.00. The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location. Additional compensation in the form of premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour in specific circumstances.
Minimum Qualifications...
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Primary Location...
702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America
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