Intern - Advanced Analytics (Summer 2025)

Description

Early careers take off with United! We've been recognized as both a top employer for Gen Z talent by Handshake and a top 100 internship program by Yellow and Way Up. Interns at United enjoy a wealth of benefits, including a robust mentorship program, exclusive travel privileges, and engaging social events to help foster a vibrant and connected community of early career professionals. Our program is designed to empower you with the skills and connections necessary to launch a successful career. We hope you join us at United, where your contributions will take flight and your career journey will soar.



The Analytics & Innovation department focuses on solving exciting business problems and connecting dots across the enterprise to benefit employees, customers and shareholders. The objective of the team is to make analytics accessible, available, fast, repeatable and scalable. We partner with a variety of business units (e.g., Airport Operations, Technical Operations, Network Planning, Revenue Management, Crew, Catering, Contact Centers, HR Systems, etc.) to build value through collaborative innovation, transformation, process improvement, change management, mathematical modeling, statistics, data science and research. The Intern role includes the following responsibilities:



Key Responsibilities:

• Leverage data from a variety of sources to analyze business performance, identify areas of opportunity and deliver useful insights to operations leaders and front-line personnel
• Partner with business collaborators to identify key initiatives and engage data analytics team members to complete delivery of balanced solutions to business problems, using data analysis, advanced analytics and data engineering standard methodologies
• Test data and/or applications to validate data accuracy/quality
• Supervise small to medium-sized projects from conceptualization to completion, including helping to build project roadmaps, project plans and requirements documentation
• Lead status meetings and manage frequent status communication to business stakeholders, IT teams and senior leadership as required

United values diverse experiences, perspectives, and we encourage everyone who meets the minimum qualifications to apply. While having the "desired" qualifications make for a stronger candidate, we encourage applicants who may not feel they check ALL of those boxes! We are always looking for individuals who will bring something new to the table!

Qualifications

What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Must be a current undergraduate or master's student
• Quantitative field such as engineering, business analytics, information systems, aviation management or related degree.
• Internship requires a 3-month commitment during summer of 2025
• Data analytics, strong strategic and critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Be able to work with large datasets and reporting visualization tools, ability to tell a story using data.
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative concepts in a clear, precise, and actionable manner.
• Exceptional organization and time management skills, including proactively communicating project timelines and expectations.
• Familiarity with database interface tools, SQL, Python, Psypark and programming concepts.
• Proven proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

• Tableu, Spotfire, or other data visualization tools.
• Experience with statistical analysis and modeling, statistical tools and concepts, (R, SPSS, SAS) preferred.

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.