North America Business Planning Intern
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Company: Tesla
Job Title: North America Business Planning Intern
Job Location: On-site at a Tesla location in North America
Internship Start Date: Approximately August or September 2025
Internship Duration: Minimum of 12 weeks, full-time. Expected to continue through the Fall term (ending approximately December 2025) or into Winter/Spring 2026 if available.
Eligibility: Must be actively enrolled in an academic program. Recent graduates seeking full-time employment should apply for full-time positions instead.
International Students: Must be able to work 40 hours per week on-site. If work authorization is through CPT, consult with your school regarding restrictions on full-time work during the academic year.
Job Overview:
The North America Business Planning team at Tesla provides critical thinking, insights, plans, and cross-functional alignment to support the company’s aggressive scaling and efficient operations. As an intern, you will directly support Tesla’s customer-facing expansion plans and measure the performance of this portfolio. You will collaborate with Service, Sales, Collision, and Customer Support leaders to create and implement market growth strategies and operational improvements. Your analysis and insights will influence future expansion decisions.
What You’ll Do:
• 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 way 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.
Benefits:
As a full-time Tesla Intern, you will be eligible for:
• Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans. Both have an option with a $0 payroll contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Medical Plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company Paid Basic Life, AD&D, and short-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick time after 90 days of employment and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program
Expected Compensation:
• $19.23 – $33.65/hour + benefits (Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience)
