With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
**Internship format will be 4 days a week in office (Monday - Thursday & Friday's Remote)
Internship Overview
The Home Depot’s Summer Internship program offers college students an opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain hands on experience in a corporate environment. During an 11 – week period from May 18 - July 31, 2026, interns will be assigned to a functional team such as Supply Chain, Marketing, e-commerce, Technology, Finance, Operations, Merchandising, Pro, Home Services, Human Resources, etc. Interns will learn more about our retail business and our corporate offices while having the opportunity to work on a pre-assigned project that impacts the function they are supporting. Additionally, interns participate in networking and development activities that set them up for success as they build their careers.
What makes a Great Intern:
Action Oriented: Intern takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
Manages Ambiguity: Intern effectively navigates and thrives in uncertain situations while using sound judgment to make decisions without having the full picture. Is able to move work forward without all the details
Collaboration: Intern contributes to the group’s efforts and steps forward to help as needed. Seeks input from others
Nimble Learning: Intern actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
Communication: Intern develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audience
Customer Focus: Intern builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
Drives Results: Evaluates information to make logical decisions and achieve results despite potential challenges or setbacks.
Description of the major/subject area
The Data Science Intern Program offers talented college students the opportunity to develop their advanced data science skills while supporting the Company’s strategic objectives. Intern candidates are assigned to a project aligned to business areas such as Services, e-Commerce, Merchandising, Operations or Finance. The Home Depot’s internship program was recently named in the Top 20 in the US and offers college students an opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain hands on experience working with a number of leaders on projects that directly impact the business for one of the world's leading retailers. Data Science interns will focus on working with a variety of data science roles and functions to translate business questions into actionable insights and deliver high quality analytical solutions.
Tasks, responsibilities, and key accountabilities include:
Business Collaboration
Participate in meetings across the enterprise data science community, gaining exposure to cross functional business units.
Build networking relationships and receive mentoring from team members and top-level management
Communicating Results
Communicate findings and project status clearly and professionally through presentations
Provide recommendations to upper management.
Provide comprehensive report-out to senior leaders on assignments and other related projects
Data Analytics
Use strategic thinking and perform data analytics for a variety of business problems and opportunities and create high quality analytics solutions
Apply a wide variety of database applications and analytical tools, including SQL, Google Cloud Big Query and Python
Preferred Qualifications
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
Working knowledge of Tableau
Working knowledge of presentation software (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint)
Excellent academic performance
Experience in a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
Experience running queries against data (preferably with Google BigQuery or SQL)
Experience with data visualization software (preferably Tableau)
Exposure to statistics, predictive modeling and other data science methodologies
Preferred GPA 3.0 or above
Description of Roles: (Career paths that utilize this skillset full-time)
At The Home Depot, our associates always have room to move up and explore new opportunities. After the Internship, here are some examples of early career roles for interns with a background in Data Science:
Data Science Analyst
Associate Data Scientist
Data Scientist
Data Analyst
Location: Interns will be expected to work in-person at the Atlanta Corporate Office (Store Support Center) four days a week (Monday-Thursday) and will work remotely one day a week (Fridays) during the 11-week program. Housing assistance will be provided to eligible interns.
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:
Top Skills
What We Do
The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, values and rewards dedicated, knowledgeable and experienced professionals. We operate over 2,200 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Canada and Mexico. All of our associates have one thing in mind — helping our customers build and improve upon their homes. Join The Home Depot team today and see for yourself why we are consistently ranked as a top Fortune 500 company.
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