Internship – Data Scientist, Global Pricing Analytics (Spring 2027)

Summary

Universal Orlando Resort is offering an internship opportunity within their Global Pricing Analytics team for Spring 2027. The Data Scientist Intern will learn about price optimization for admissions and will work on creating forecasting and optimization models while conducting data analysis to develop pricing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Learns the process, systems, models, and business rules in the optimization of admissions pricing at Universal Destinations & Experiences
• Prototypes models for forecasting demand and optimizing prices of admissions
• Creates forecasting models at the optimal level of disaggregation and fine-tunes regressors/parameters for optimal accuracy
• Creates optimization models in dynamic programming and fine-tunes parameters for generating actionable price recommendations
• Conducts data analysis and identifies pricing strategies to generate incremental revenue
• Constructs hypotheses to test pricing strategies and implements, measures, and reports on pricing tests
• Practices programming skills in Python, SQL; working with Tensorflow, Prophet, SciPy, NumPy libraries; working in AWS, Snowflake
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training, and Team Member involvement activities
• Performs other duties as assigned

Skills

• In pursuit of an Associate, Bachelor or Graduate degree at an Accredited Institution with current class standing of Senior or graduate student
• Minimum cumulative 2.8 GPA is required
• A transcript is required upon application
• Preferred majors include: Operations Research, Statistics, Data Science, or similar
• Preferred coursework completed: Linear Programming, Mixed-Integer Programming, Probability, Statistics, Machine Learning, or similar
• Preferred modeling skills in forecasting and optimization
• Familiarity with Revenue Management, Dynamic Programming, Price Elasticity of Demand, Tensorflow, Prophet, SciPy, NumPy, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, PowerBI, and/or Excel

Qualifications

Must Haves

• In pursuit of an Associate, Bachelor or Graduate degree at an Accredited Institution with current class standing of Senior or graduate student
• Minimum cumulative 2.8 GPA is required
• A transcript is required upon application

Nice to Haves

• Preferred majors include: Operations Research, Statistics, Data Science, or similar
• Preferred coursework completed: Linear Programming, Mixed-Integer Programming, Probability, Statistics, Machine Learning, or similar
• Preferred modeling skills in forecasting and optimization
• Familiarity with Revenue Management, Dynamic Programming, Price Elasticity of Demand, Tensorflow, Prophet, SciPy, NumPy, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, PowerBI, and/or Excel

Benefits

• All of our internships are paid
• You may also qualify for housing financial assistance if applicable