Victoria’s Secret Summer 2027 Internships: Design, Product Development & Marketing
If Victoria’s Secret is on your internship wish list, you have more than one way into the company for Summer 2027.
Victoria’s Secret & Co. is currently recruiting interns across Design, Product Development and Marketing, with each internship offering a very different look at how a major fashion and retail brand operates.
One of the biggest mistakes I see students make when searching for internships is focusing so heavily on the company name that they don’t spend enough time thinking about the actual function. Working in Design at Victoria’s Secret would give you a completely different summer than working in Marketing or Product Development.
So before you apply to all three simply because you like the brand, understand what you’re actually signing up to learn.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Location: New York City
Compensation: $23 per hour
Duration: 12 weeks
The Victoria’s Secret Design Internship
The Summer 2027 Design Internship is the most creatively focused of the three, but don’t mistake “creative” for spending your entire summer sketching.
Interns support the Design team throughout the product development process. That includes attending meetings, researching fashion trends and competitors, helping prepare concept boards and tableaus, organizing design archives and assisting the team as products move through development.
The internship is hybrid in New York City, with three days per week in the office.
Qualifications
Victoria’s Secret is looking for students working toward a degree or equivalent. Academic backgrounds including Fashion Design, FMM Product Development, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Fabric Styling, Textile Design, Packaging Design, Color and Print Design are specifically mentioned as a plus.
Candidates must be able to work 40 hours per week during the summer and should be fluent in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
They’re also looking for someone who can take initiative, work independently and manage multiple projects at once.
What You’ll Learn
The biggest benefit here may be learning how design functions inside a large retail organization.
You’ll see how research gets translated into concepts, how designers communicate ideas internally and how creative work moves through a much larger product-development process.
You’ll also begin building the less glamorous skills that matter tremendously in entry-level design roles: maintaining files, preparing presentations, managing multiple requests and keeping creative information organized.
And because interns attend key meetings, you’ll get something that’s difficult to recreate in a classroom: exposure to the language professional designers use when they discuss and evaluate product.
The Victoria’s Secret Product Development Internship
If Design asks, “What should we create?” Product Development gets much closer to the question, “How are we actually going to make it?”
This is one of those fashion functions students often overlook because it doesn’t receive the same attention as design or marketing. Yet Product Development sits right in the middle of how a product moves from concept toward reality.
The Summer 2027 Product Development intern will support the team with samples, raw materials, systems and cross-functional coordination.
Qualifications
This posting specifically calls for students in the junior or senior year of a four-year degree program.
Strong written, verbal and electronic communication skills are important, along with proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Adobe.
Victoria’s Secret also highlights teamwork, problem-solving and organization.
Previous experience with Salesforce and Flex/Centric PLM is listed as a plus rather than a requirement.
What You’ll Learn
This internship could give you an excellent foundation in product lifecycle management.
You’ll begin understanding samples, raw materials, mills, development timelines and cross-functional communication. You’ll also gain exposure to PLM systems, which are commonly used behind the scenes to manage enormous amounts of product information.
More importantly, you’ll start seeing how interconnected fashion companies really are.
Product does not simply travel from a designer’s sketch to a factory and then magically appear in a store. There are approvals, samples, materials, deadlines, systems and people coordinating every stage.
Understanding that process can make you much stronger in many areas of the industry, even if Product Development isn’t where you ultimately stay.
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Join 20,000+ aspiring fashion professionals worldwide who have used my free Global Fashion & Beauty Internship Spreadsheet to discover internship opportunities from leading brands across fashion, beauty, retail, and lifestyle.
Updated regularly with new openings, it’s one of the easiest ways to stay on top of internship recruiting.
The Victoria’s Secret Marketing Internship
The Summer 2027 Marketing Internship sits on the consumer-facing side of the business.
Interns may support brand strategy, storytelling, content, competitor analysis, performance tracking and events, but this posting is particularly interesting because of the range of work involved.
Influencers. Social. PR. Content creation. Campaign analysis. Samples.
That’s a pretty broad marketing education for one summer.
Qualifications
Candidates should be working toward a degree in a related field or have equivalent experience and must be available to work 40 hours per week during Summer 2027.
Victoria’s Secret emphasizes attention to detail, communication, organization, collaboration, leadership and relationship-building skills.
Candidates should also be fluent in Microsoft Office and willing to be hands-on with whatever needs to get done.
What You’ll Learn
This internship could help you understand something students often struggle with early in their careers: marketing is much bigger than social media.
You’ll potentially see how social content, influencer strategy, PR, partnerships, campaign performance and product all connect.
The campaign hindsight work is especially worth noticing.
Creating a campaign is one skill. Looking at the results afterward and figuring out what actually worked is another. Learning to connect creative marketing ideas to KPIs and performance data will make you a much more sophisticated marketer.
You’ll also learn the coordination side of the function, including managing requests, samples, meetings and competing priorities.
Three Internships, Three Different Paths
If you’re tempted to apply to more than one, that’s completely reasonable. But your application should make sense for each.
Here’s the simplest way I would think about the three:
Design: You want to help shape what the product looks and feels like.
Product Development: You want to understand how the product gets developed and executed.
Marketing: You want to help determine how the product and brand are communicated to the consumer.
None is inherently a “better” fashion internship. They’re building different skill sets. And if you’re still figuring out where you fit in fashion, reading the responsibilities side by side can actually tell you quite a bit about yourself.
Which list made you immediately think, I would be good at that? Pay attention to that reaction.
Should You Apply?
If one of these functions genuinely aligns with what you’re trying to learn, yes.
But don’t apply to Design, Product Development and Marketing with essentially the same resume and expect the company name to do the work for you. Look at what each team is telling you it needs.
For Design: Your creative and Adobe skills need to be visible.
For Product Development: Your resume should make your organization, problem-solving, systems and product experience easy to find.
For Marketing: Show evidence of communication, content, research, collaboration and execution.
And remember that “experience” does not have to mean you’ve already interned at another major fashion company.
Course projects, student organizations, freelance work, retail experience, campus events and other internships can all provide evidence of the skills an employer is asking for when you frame them properly.
Final Thoughts
A recognizable company name can absolutely add weight to an early resume, but the more important question is what you’ll be able to say you did there.
That’s why I want you to look beyond the Victoria’s Secret name when you’re considering these internships.
Think about the stories you could eventually tell in your next interview:
- Did you help research and develop a product concept?
- Did you learn how samples and raw materials move through development?
- Did you analyze campaign performance or support influencer and PR initiatives?
Those become the experiences that move your career forward.
Apply to the Victoria’s Secret Summer 2027 Internship Design Program here.
Apply to the Victoria’s Secret Summer 2027 Internship Product Development Program here.
Apply to the Victoria’s Secret Summer 2027 Internship Marketing Program here.
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