What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fine Jewelry & Watch Intern (PAG) position at The RealReal?
About The Role
Ready for an authentic experience? You’ll hit the ground running and have an opportunity to create real-world business solutions at The RealReal. We are the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, consigned luxury goods. This unique internship experience will provide exposure to our Jewelry Labs and technology innovations that are truly disrupting the luxury resale industry.
**This is a 10 week internship from 6/2/2025 - 8/8/2025.**
Fine Jewelry & Watch (FJW) Interns will join our team at The RealReal, participating in its daily life. You’ll attend huddles, team all-hands, learn to use our state-of-the-art tools, and learn about the work that goes into authenticating luxury goods. The first few weeks of your internship will be ramping up and tackling smaller tasks - after which you will tackle a signature project. These projects are appropriately scoped, will provide meaningful business value, and will be presented to senior executives at the end of your internship. At the end of your time at The RealReal, you’ll walk away with valuable experience working in an organization at scale - and a feature you can be proud of!
What You Get To Do Every Day
What You Bring To The Role
This role is not eligible for benefits.
The expected hourly rate for this role is 21-21. To determine starting pay we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location and an evaluation of a candidate’s skills, experience, market demands, and internal parity. Additionally, salary is just one component of TRR’s total rewards package. Depending on role, employees may also be eligible for a bonus program, incentive pay and benefits.
The RealReal is the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, resale luxury goods, with 37 million members. With a rigorous authentication process overseen by experts, The RealReal provides a safe and reliable platform for consumers to buy and sell their luxury items. We have hundreds of in-house gemologists, horologists, and brand authenticators who inspect thousands of items each day. As a sustainable company, we give new life to pieces by thousands of brands across numerous categories—including women's and men's fashion, fine jewelry and watches, art, and home—in support of the circular economy. We make selling effortless with free virtual appointments, in-home pickup, drop-off, and direct shipping. We handle all of the work for consignors, including authenticating, using AI and machine learning to determine optimal pricing, photographing and listing their items, as well as shipping and customer service.
The RealReal is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants for a position regardless of arrest or conviction records. At TRR, People Come First. That’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our Diversity Equity and Inclusion program here.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Ready for an authentic experience? You’ll hit the ground running and have an opportunity to create real-world business solutions at The RealReal. We are the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, consigned luxury goods. This unique internship experience will provide exposure to our Jewelry Labs and technology innovations that are truly disrupting the luxury resale industry.
**This is a 10 week internship from 6/2/2025 - 8/8/2025.**
Fine Jewelry & Watch (FJW) Interns will join our team at The RealReal, participating in its daily life. You’ll attend huddles, team all-hands, learn to use our state-of-the-art tools, and learn about the work that goes into authenticating luxury goods. The first few weeks of your internship will be ramping up and tackling smaller tasks - after which you will tackle a signature project. These projects are appropriately scoped, will provide meaningful business value, and will be presented to senior executives at the end of your internship. At the end of your time at The RealReal, you’ll walk away with valuable experience working in an organization at scale - and a feature you can be proud of!
What You Get To Do Every Day
- Learn and apply the foundational practices of jewelry authentication and various technologies
- Support Fine Jewelry Specialists by hands-on use of equipment such as Raman spectrometer to analyze gem material, carat weight estimation device (CWED) for calculating carat weight and XRF machine to analyze metals, jewelry materials and gems
- Develop proposals for best practices/new applications for devices in the context of TRR
- Conduct research for best practices of technology across jewelry industry
- Organize and maintain internal database of company owned training materials
- Collect and report data in partnership with the Jewelry Authentication team to provide detailed feedback and findings
What You Bring To The Role
- Full-time (minimum 12 credit hours) undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor’s degree with a graduation date after December 2025
- Results-oriented self-starter able to multitask and prioritize workload
- Detail oriented and organized
- Team player with a collaborative approach
- Knowledge of Google Suite (or experience in MS Office suite)
- Interest in the authentication of luxury goods in the resale industry
- Knowledge of fine jewelry brands and pieces
This role is not eligible for benefits.
The expected hourly rate for this role is 21-21. To determine starting pay we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location and an evaluation of a candidate’s skills, experience, market demands, and internal parity. Additionally, salary is just one component of TRR’s total rewards package. Depending on role, employees may also be eligible for a bonus program, incentive pay and benefits.
The RealReal is the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, resale luxury goods, with 37 million members. With a rigorous authentication process overseen by experts, The RealReal provides a safe and reliable platform for consumers to buy and sell their luxury items. We have hundreds of in-house gemologists, horologists, and brand authenticators who inspect thousands of items each day. As a sustainable company, we give new life to pieces by thousands of brands across numerous categories—including women's and men's fashion, fine jewelry and watches, art, and home—in support of the circular economy. We make selling effortless with free virtual appointments, in-home pickup, drop-off, and direct shipping. We handle all of the work for consignors, including authenticating, using AI and machine learning to determine optimal pricing, photographing and listing their items, as well as shipping and customer service.
The RealReal is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants for a position regardless of arrest or conviction records. At TRR, People Come First. That’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our Diversity Equity and Inclusion program here.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
