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.
Key Responsibilities
The Analytics & Innovation department focuses on solving challenging 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 create value through collaborative innovation, transformation, process improvement, change management, mathematical modeling, statistics, data science and research. The Intern role includes the following responsibilities:
- Extract data from various sources like Teradata, Google Analytics, Big Data platform.
- Conduct data mining and data analysis including developing reports and assisting in ad-hoc analyses.
- Develop and validate evaluation metrics and models to analyze business performance and areas of opportunity
- Develop Machine Learning models including training and evaluating existing ones
- Provide regular updates on projects
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):
Quantitative field such as engineering, computer science, statistics or related degree.
- Must be a current undergraduate or master’s student
- Internship requires a 3-month commitment during summer of 2025
- Strong knowledge of either SAS, R or Python
- Hands-on knowledge in predictive modeling
- Experienced in manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high dimensionality data from various sources to highlight patterns and relationships
- Working 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.
- Proven proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint Insert bullet points here
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.
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