Intern - Gap Merchandising, Collaborations

About the Role

About Our Summer Internship Program

At Gap Inc., our 10-week Summer Internship Program is built around how our business operates—fast-moving, customer-focused, and grounded in the work that brings our brands to life. As an intern, you’ll step into the pace and complexity of a global retail organization, contributing to initiatives that shape our product, our experience, and how we show up for millions of customers.

You’ll be embedded on a team from day one, taking on meaningful work and building ownership as the summer progresses. Along the way, you’ll strengthen how you approach your work—using data to inform decisions, solving business problems, and communicating ideas with clarity—while building fluency in tools like AI that help teams work more effectively.

As the summer progresses, you’ll be expected to move beyond execution—identifying a meaningful opportunity or challenge within your team, shaping your own point of view, and developing a clear, well-supported recommendation to present at the end of the program.

By the end of the summer, you’ll have a deeper understanding of how the business runs, stronger judgment in how you approach your work, and a foundation of experience you can build on as you grow your career.

As a Merchandising Intern, you will gain exposure to the merchant role at a global vertical retailer. You will work on a merchandising team within a specific Gap department and will participate in key milestone meetings and contribute to projects that support the business. Past projects include identifying white space in the market for potential opportunities, running a competitive analysis on product assortment and pricing, and participating in competitive shopping with merchant teams for research and inspiration. 

Hourly Rate: $35.00 per hour USD
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
What You'll Do

• Support merchant teams in key projects throughout the summer, and actively participate in presentations to senior leadership based on findings    

• Monitor trend reporting, social channels, blogs, and magazines to identify trends based on category and project needs    

• Create mood/inspiration boards with imagery and product references to support project presentations and category needs.    

• Shop the competition online and in stores to collect data points on a variety of business needs by category. These needs include data on price points, customer trends, style count in store and online, promotional activity, customer profiles and target customer, flow strategies, and product performance.    

• Maintain, create, and understand weekly and monthly reports and tools used by merchant teams to understand category performance and participate in conversations and ideas to support the business.    

• Collaborate cross-functionally with key business partners to achieve goals   

• Support in preparing presentations and meeting content for leadership 

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in progress 

• Must be in your Junior academic year graduating in December 2026 or Spring 2027 

• Ability to work Monday – Friday from mid-June to mid-August  

• Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving abilities to identify patterns, build strategy and drive results   

• Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and ability to learn technical applications, terminology, and processes quickly    

• Passion for retail with a strong trend point of view and customer obsession. Retail experience preferred but not required.   

• Ability to share information to an audience with effective oral and written communication utilizing various forms of media (PowerPoint, Pinterest, mood/inspiration boards).    

• Attention to detail and the ability to work with raw data to understand customer priorities    

• Self-starter attitude with an ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced environment     

• Strong intellectual curiosity and a willingness to seek out new ways of learning in complex situations