North America Business Planning Intern
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Job Description
About Tesla
Tesla’s North America Business Planning team plays a crucial role in providing the critical thinking, insights, plans, and cross-functional alignment needed for Tesla’s aggressive scaling and efficient operation. The team focuses on aligning the company’s highest-level priorities with strong day-to-day operations and building capabilities to power hyper-growth.
Job Description
This is a North America Business Planning internship, expected to start around August or September 2025 and continue through the Fall term (ending approximately December 2025) or potentially extend into Winter/Spring 2026. The internship requires a minimum of 12 weeks, full-time, and on-site.
As an intern, you will directly support Tesla’s customer-facing expansion plans and measure the performance of this portfolio. You will work closely with leaders in Service, Sales, Collision, and Customer Support to create and implement market growth strategies and operational improvements. Your analyses and creative thinking will directly influence future company decisions.
Key Responsibilities:
• Combine quantitative and qualitative analyses to forecast and prioritize capacity needs within Tesla’s customer-facing portfolio of locations and teams.
• Track and measure the performance of existing locations and teams and partner with operations leaders to identify improvement opportunities.
• Manage field feedback on operations systems and provide insights to the business and IT teams to surface potential system enhancements.
• Build business cases and analyses with Program Managers to support process improvement initiatives.
• Perform analyses and content preparation for executive reviews.
What You’ll Bring:
• Very strong quantitative/analytical skills and intuition.
• Experience and comfort in modeling scenarios and forward-looking business cases.
• Experience in common Excel functions and in data processing, including analysis of big data using Excel; SQL and Python are ideal.
• Prefer basic statistics knowledge in predictive modeling & regression
• Prefer experience building data visualizations, dashboards and reports using Tableau Desktop or similar BI solution.
• Hardworking; willing to go above and beyond.
• Comfort with ambiguity & rapid change.
• Passion for Tesla’s products and belief in Tesla’s mission to accelerate the transition toward sustainable energy.
