job description

Who We Are

Saks is a world-renowned luxury ecommerce destination. The company’s unique approach combines a focus on the digital customer experience with a strong connection to a network of extraordinary stores that extends that seamless experience into the real world.

On its website and app, Saks offers an unparalleled selection of curated merchandise across fashion for women and men, beauty, jewelry, home décor, and more. In addition to the shopping experience, customers come to Saks for inspiring editorial content, access to digital stylists, lifestyle experiences, and other world-class services. The company is currently in the midst of a dramatic expansion, driven by significant enhancements to its platforms and offerings, with the goal of becoming the preeminent destination for luxury internationally.

Program Summary

The Summer Internship is a 9-week paid program offering a unique opportunity to high-potential college Juniors, who are interested in a career with a fast-paced, dynamic, luxury digital retail organization. The program builds cross-functional expertise and allows time to develop functional, technical, and leadership competencies. In addition to learning the key components of our teams at Saks, you will have the opportunity to meet with Senior Leadership from our Finance, HR, Marketing, Merchant, Technology, and Executive teams. To maximize your learning, the program is designed to provide you with experiences both on the job with your supervisor and in a classroom setting.* Curriculum is designed to target both soft and hard skill learning such as basic retail language, retail math, interviewing skills, and time management.

Role Description

• This role will be responsible for assisting our Information Security team with protecting Saks technology infrastructure, applications, customer data, and intellectual property. This role will have the unique opportunity to work with various teams within Information Security to gain broad experience within all facets of an InfoSec Program

• Experiences gained can include everything from writing alerts to identify malicious events, helping to identify security vulnerabilities within our systems, and performing risk assessments against the latest technologies

• Work with the Incident Response team to discover, triage, and remediate security events across our environment using world-class enterprise-grade security tools

• Analyze and track remediation of system and application vulnerabilities across critical business systems

• Provide support to the Information Security risk team to ensure effective execution of security controls

Key Qualifications

• Dynamic Juniors working towards a BA/BS with a GPA of 3.0 or higher

• Must be available for a Summer internship from June 2022 until August 2022

• Must be comfortable working virtually/remotely

• Proven leadership ability through participation in organizations and clubs

• Strong analytical and organizational skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Ability to promote teamwork and collaboration

• Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and, if hired, present proof of vaccination prior to beginning employment.

Who You Are

• An adaptable, entrepreneurial, goal-oriented individual with an eagerness to learn

• A self-motivated and proactive individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment

• A perceptive individual with strong written and verbal communication skills

• A natural problem-solver who is also intuitively analytical and creative, and is able to generate a variety of new and novel ideas to resolve issues

• An innovative, out-of-the-box thinker who shines in brainstorming sessions, is willing to take risks, and continuously looks for opportunities to improve the way things are done

• A strong collaborator who accomplishes tasks by partnering with team members and flexing your interpersonal skills while also being able to work independently at times

• An organized, detail-oriented, multi-tasker who has the ability to prioritize multiple projects/tasks and meet tight deadlines

Your Life and Career at Saks

• Be a part of an entrepreneurial team hyper-focused on massive growth

• Convenient and collaborative modern offices in Lower Manhattan with onsite perks

• Paid Community Time Off during the month of July

• An amazing employee discount

Thank you for your interest in Saks. We look forward to reviewing your application.

Saks provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Saks complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Saks welcomes all applicants for this position. Should you be individually selected to participate in an assessment or selection process, accommodations are available upon request in relation to the materials or processes to be used.