About the role#
The Sales Strategy and Operations team works with advertising sales leaders to improve business performance and support decision making. As a Sales Analytics Intern, you will turn data into insights that support sales performance, planning, and daily operations. You will contribute to reporting, analysis, and process improvement projects while building your skills in communication and cross-functional collaboration. This is a full-time, paid summer internship for 2027.
What you'll do#
- Analyze data related to pipeline health, sales performance, coverage, productivity, forecasting, and planning.
- Build or improve recurring reports and dashboards, verify data quality, and make insights clear for business partners.
- Explore performance trends across regions, products, segments, or sales motions to identify drivers, data gaps, and follow-up questions.
- Turn analyses into concise summaries, presentations, and recommendations to help teammates understand findings and decide on next steps.
- Support planning or scenario analyses using established assumptions, templates, and team guidance.
- Partner with Sales, Finance, Marketing, and other teams to clarify business questions, align on metrics, and respond to analytical requests.
- Document reporting workflows, identify manual steps, and suggest practical process improvements.
- Use approved AI tools to support research, analysis, documentation, or workflow improvements, ensuring all outputs are validated before sharing.
What you'll need#
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, statistics, data analytics, or a related field.
- Ability to analyze data, identify patterns, and explain findings clearly.
- Skill in structuring analytical questions, breaking work into manageable steps, and communicating conclusions.
- Proficiency with Excel or Google Sheets to organize data and build basic models.
- Familiarity with SQL and at least one analytics or visualization tool like Tableau, Looker, or Power BI, gained through coursework, projects, or internships.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize findings for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Interest in sales analytics, digital advertising, revenue operations, or go-to-market strategy.
- Capacity to collaborate, manage priorities, and make progress on assigned projects.
- Ability to use AI tools responsibly, checking outputs against source data and taking ownership of final work.
Location & details#
- This is a hybrid role requiring in-office collaboration 1-3 times per week.
- You must be within a commutable distance of San Francisco, California, or New York City, New York.
- The internship is full-time during business hours, Monday through Friday.
- Two program windows are available: May 17, 2027 to August 6, 2027, or June 14, 2027 to September 3, 2027.
About Pinterest
Pinterest operates a visual discovery platform for users to search, save, and shop for ideas. The company is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2010. It functions as a public company with over 13,000 employees. The platform serves more than 600 million monthly active users globally.
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