Commercial Strategy Associate Intern - Summer 2025

Program Dates: Monday, June 2, 2025 - Friday, August 8, 2025 

*This is a Boston based opportunity with a 4 day in office expectation

Who We Are:

Wayfair’s Commercial organization delivers on Wayfair’s promise to help everyone anywhere create their feeling of home through building an unparalleled selection, driving tangible value, and ensuring a seamless customer experience. This team builds strong relationships with suppliers to provide true partnership in helping customers create a space that reflects who they are and what they need. They attract, grow, and retain Wayfair’s customer base through innovative marketing strategies. This team curates and refines product collections to enhance and optimize the shopping journey. The Commercial team also offers outstanding support to meet customers where they are through home services, financing options, and direct sales interactions. As an Intern, you’ll develop and execute strategies that generate competitive advantage for Wayfair, and the results of your findings will improve the end-to-end supplier and customer experience.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to business-critical projects and initiatives over the course of the 10-week program, including creating a final presentation of findings and recommendations to your broader team and stakeholders
• Analyze data, trends, and use resources to improve the quality of our product catalog in order to increase customer satisfaction, trust, and site conversion rates; researching categories and vendors to build out selection
• Partner with cross-functional teams to advance your category project(s) through merchandising, promotions, marketing, on-trend product selection, effective pricing and profitability, and operational excellence
• Assist with the management of supplier relationships and support negotiation strategies to help push towards a best-in-class customer experience
• Leverage data to analyze the competitive environment, report on performance trends, and develop business cases for strategic initiatives
• Manage communication with internal and external stakeholders

What You Need:

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelors or higher with the expectation that degree will be obtained between December 2025 and Summer 2026 with a 3.0 GPA minimum
• Must be returning to the course of study following completion of the internship
• Ability to commit to working 40 hours/week (9am-5pm, Monday-Friday) from June 2  - August 8, 2025 in our Boston office
• You must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship by Wayfair now or in the future

Preferred Qualifications:

• Data and process-oriented, comfortable learning data analysis tools
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• A desire to win and steer collaboration cross functionally
• Passionate about the customer with an interest in understanding and driving user behavior
• Demonstrated ability to thrive as part of a team or individually
• An entrepreneurial spirit and mindset
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Experience in Excel, Google Sheets is a plus

As a Commercial Strategy Associate Intern, you’ll join our teams that are driving Wayfair’s best-in-class online customer experience. You’ll be responsible for owning and maintaining Wayfair’s vast e-commerce catalog, executing strategy for product categories, managing supplier relationships, and continually improving the customer’s on-site shopping experience. 

Possible Team Placements Include:

B2B

Wayfair Professional (aka Wayfair B2B) is an industry leading business to business sales organization dedicated to help businesses make good spaces great. Wayfair Professional is the ‘gated’ experience of Wayfair dedicated to all business customers. We organize our customer base and corresponding offering (site and sales) into 7 industry verticals, prioritizing our Interior Design, Commercial Office and Contractor experiences. We are on a journey to being a $5B+ business by 2025 (+30% YoY growth), with over a $300B opportunity to cover across North America and Europe over the subsequent 10 years.

Catalog Merchandising

The Global Merchandising organization is responsible for building and maintaining Wayfair’s e-commerce catalog of over 24 million+ products. The organization consists of multiple teams who each play a crucial role in defining and executing on best-in-class merchandising. The Global Operations Platform teams guide the management of our enormous product catalog and provide supplier