AMER Business Marketing Analytics & Recertified Storage Analytics Intern - Summer 2026

Seagate Technology is seeking an intern to support strategic research, business analytics, and market assessment initiatives focused on AI-driven market segments and recertified storage solutions. The role involves analyzing AI infrastructure and storage demand, assessing recertified storage markets and ecosystems, and translating findings into executive-ready recommendations.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze AI workloads across the market segments, including data collection, data preparation, model training, inferencing, model deployment, and long-term retention
• Research frontier AI models and AI platforms, including Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral, and other emerging models, to assess potential infrastructure and storage implications
• Evaluate how different AI workload patterns may impact the need for Flash, HDD, object storage, file storage, block storage, and hybrid storage architectures
• Identify market signals, technology shifts, and customer requirements that may influence future storage growth
• Synthesize findings into clear business objectives , executive presentations, and strategic recommendations on target market segments and applications
• Support development of go-to-market hypotheses, partner segmentation, and strategic opportunity sizing
• Analyze geographic growth regions and market segment hotspots where recertified storage may have stronger demand potential
• Analyze how archival, backup, cold-data, and secondary-storage environments deploy, refresh, manage, and retire storage infrastructure
• Assess customer pain points related to storage lifecycle management, including cost, capacity planning, warranty, sustainability, data retention, operational complexity, and asset disposition
• Map relevant ecosystem participants, including Global Systems Integrators, IT Asset Disposition providers, value-added resellers, channel partners, system builders, managed service providers, and specialized archival data center operators

Requirements:

• This role is designed for an MBA intern or a highly capable undergraduate student with strong analytical skills and an interest in AI infrastructure, data centers, storage technology, circular economy business models, and market strategy
• The ideal candidate is inquisitive, structured in problem-solving, and able to translate complex technical and market information into executive-ready business recommendations
• Strong interest in AI infrastructure, data centers, enterprise technology, cloud computing, storage systems, or technology market strategy
• Ability to break down ambiguous problems into clear workstreams, frameworks, and recommendations
• Demonstrated ability to conduct structured market research and translate findings into business insights
• Currently pursuing an MBA, master's degree, or undergraduate degree in Business, Strategy, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, and/or a related field and returning to school in Fall 2027
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including comfort working with market data, customer segmentation, competitive information, and forecasting assumptions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create executive-level presentations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• experience with data visualization or analytical modeling is a plus
• Experience or coursework in business analytics, market sizing, competitive strategy, technology strategy, supply chain, or product marketing
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure concepts, including GPUs, model training, inferencing, data pipelines, data lakes, and enterprise AI deployment
• Understanding of storage technologies such as HDD, SSD, Flash, object storage, file storage, block storage, NAS, archival storage, and hybrid storage architectures
• Interest in sustainability, circular economy business models, refurbished or recertified technology markets, and product lifecycle monetization
• Ability to build structured Excel models, market maps, segmentation frameworks, and executive dashboards
• Experience with secondary research, industry reports, competitive benchmarking, customer interviews, or partner ecosystem analysis
• Comfort synthesizing technical concepts into business-oriented insights for senior leaders