Intern, Distributed Commerce Assistant

Sephora • San Francisco, CA

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Sephora’s 10-week internship program provides early-career professionals with hands-on learning, personal and professional networking, and projects that directly impact the business. The program includes weekly virtual workshops, networking opportunities, and career panels. The 2027 program runs June 14 through August 20, 2027, and this hybrid role is based in San Francisco, California, with a 36-hour workweek from Monday through Friday, Pacific time.

The Intern, Distributed Commerce Assistant will support the Distributed Commerce team in identifying, evaluating, and optimizing commerce opportunities in emerging digital channels beyond Sephora.com. The intern will focus on AI-assisted shopping and agentic commerce, assess market and competitive developments, and create a prioritization framework with findings and recommendations for the team.

Requirements

• Strong interest in emerging digital commerce channels, agentic commerce, AI-assisted shopping, and consumer technology.
• Ability to conduct structured research and competitive benchmarking and translate findings into clear, actionable insights.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including comfort evaluating business, client experience, and technical considerations.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to explain technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently, collaborate across teams, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Graduating in 2027 or 2028 with an undergraduate or graduate degree.
• Work schedule must align with 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Pacific time.
• Must permanently reside and work in the United States.
• Must be open to relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area upon graduation for consideration for full-time hybrid positions.
• Available June 14 through August 20, 2027.

Responsibilities

• Research agentic commerce and AI-assisted shopping, including consumer adoption, emerging use cases, industry announcements, and technology developments.
• Benchmark shopping capabilities across generative AI platforms and AI assistants, evaluate how beauty competitors and leading retailers use them, and maintain an updateable comparison framework.
• Test Sephora agentic commerce experiences from a client perspective, document pain points and gaps, and work with cross-functional teams to identify practical optimizations.
• Develop and apply a prioritization framework for generative AI platforms and agentic commerce features based on user adoption, competitive activity, business potential, cost, and technical fit.
• Present progress, insights, prioritized opportunities, and final recommendations to the Distributed Commerce team and leadership.
• As a stretch goal, develop a partner onboarding blueprint.
• Demonstrate Sephora values: Passion, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect, Teamwork, and Initiative.

Benefits

• Weekly virtual workshops, networking opportunities, and career panels.
• Hands-on learning, personal and professional networking, and projects that directly impact the business.
• Target hourly pay of $27.00.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed