Position Summary:
What you'll do...
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 complexity 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.
- 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.
- Willingness to relocate to Walmart’s Home Office Hub (Bentonville, AR) after graduation.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
Preferred Majors:
- Economics
- Math
- Statistics
- Engineering
- Computer Science
- Other related majors in a quantitative field
Office Environment: Corporate, in-person internship.
Job Location: This role is in Bentonville, AR.
Walmart and Sam’s 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.
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; maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance.
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; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
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 and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
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; builds a high-performing team; embraces diversity in all its forms; and actively supports diversity goal programs.
Collaboration & Influence: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.
Talent Management: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
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. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
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. Premiums may be based on schedule, facility, season, or specific work performed. Multiple premiums may apply if applicable criteria are met.
Primary Location: 702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America.
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