Shop Partners Project Intern (TikTok Shop Italy) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

As a project intern, you will have the opportunity to engage in impactful short-term projects that provide you with a glimpse of professional real-world experience. You will gain practical skills through on-the-job learning in a fast-paced work environment and develop a deeper understanding of your career interests.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.
Successful candidates must be able to commit to at least 3 months long internship period.

Tik Tok Shop is an innovative marketplace fully integrated into Tik Tok. It brings together online sellers, buyers and creators - all within Tik Tok to build a one-stop, seamless shopping experience and bringing more commerce solutions that further enable our community to discover and engage with what they love.

About the Role:

Tik Tok Shop is redefining how people discover and buy products. In Italy, we're building the Tik Tok Shop Partner (TSP) ecosystem from the ground up: agencies and service providers that help merchants win on this platform. You'll be embedded in that build.

• What you'll do
• Partner Business Development: Identify, qualify, and approach agencies and service providers that could join the TSP program. Own the pipeline from first contact to onboarding handoff.
• Ecosystem Operations: Keep the partner engine running — coordinate across internal teams and external partners to unblock execution, track program milestones, and ensure commitments land.
• Performance Intelligence & Reporting: Build and maintain the dashboards, trackers, and automated workflows that make partner performance visible. If it's repetitive, systematize it.
• Partner Cold Start: Work directly with newly onboarded TSPs to accelerate their first 90 days on Tik Tok Shop — setup, capability activation, first seller wins.
• Merchant Opportunity Scouting: Support partners in identifying e-commerce opportunities for their sellers: category analysis, assortment gaps, GMV potential assessment, benchmarking.

Requirements:

• Minimum Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Business, Economics, AI, Marketing, Data Analytics, Management, or a related field.

• Genuine curiosity about discovery e-commerce and where commerce is going

• Bias for action and ownership — own decisions and act fast

• Comfortable with data & GenAI- savvy — you reach for a spreadsheet or a prompt to automate and take informed decisions

• Italian fluency — to communicate with local TSP partners, merchants, and stakeholders in the Italian market

• English working proficiency — for cross-team collaboration with global and regional teams

• Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to marketplace, e-commerce, or agency environments

• Familiarity with Tik Tok Shop, affiliate mechanics, or performance advertising

• Experience building reports, dashboards, or internal tools