Intern - Data Science - Masters / Phd

Job Description

Fan Intelligence Analytics Intern, Marketing Data Analytics

Location: Austin, Texas
- Relocation is not supported for this role

We are looking for a December 2025 grad to join the Fan Intelligence - Data & Analytics team as a Marketing Data Analytics Intern, reporting to a Lead Analyst.

As a Marketing Data Analyst Intern, you will take ownership of a key project aimed at analyzing and optimizing media spend, marketing performance, and player behavior within our Fan Intelligence ecosystem.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams, leveraging data to provide actionable insights that drive marketing strategy and player engagement. This role offers a hands-on opportunity to develop your analytical skills, explore trends in media effectiveness, and contribute to shaping the future of fan engagement.

What you will do:
• Own and drive a project that will require you to:
• Extract, transform, and process data from multiple internal and external sources.
• Perform exploratory analysis on the data using different analytical and statistical methodologies.
• Leverage machine learning or predictive modeling to explore relationships between variables.
• Develop automated dashboards and visualizations to effectively communicate insights that drive data-driven business decisions.
• Take initiative and become an expert on the subject matter, driving the project with minimal supervision and proactively seeking out solutions to challenges.
• Collaborate with other analytics and fan-oriented teams to help guide project goals, supplant learnings, and explore additional opportunities.
• Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to tackle complex challenges, identify root causes, and propose innovative solutions.
• Communicate and present final findings to key stakeholders, leadership team, and the wider EA community via the intern fair.
• Provide ad-hoc support for any unplanned needs related to our operations.
• Be a part of our team culture: attend team meetings, team activities, and company events. Get to know the team and organization as you intern!

Your profile:
• Curious and creative, you enjoy exploring data and finding the next big opportunity
• You have the passion and enthusiasm to push projects forward and produce meaningful, impactful insights that will drive decision-making.
• You like working on complex challenges in complicated environments.
• You view challenges as opportunities and enjoy solving problems and removing obstacles others see as insurmountable.

Background and Technical skills
• Currently pursuing an advanced degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Knowledge-of and practical experience with statistics, probability, and hypothesis testing.
• Experience applying quantitative methods to solve problems in a data-driven manner.
• Proficiency with SQL for data extraction, transformation, and manipulation
• Proficiency with R or Python for data analysis and visualization.
• Strong communication skills - regular project updates, communication with and across teams, and analytical ''storytelling'' - distilling quantitative insights into easy to digest and intuitive presentation form.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a globally spread organization – including team members, partners, and stakeholders.
• Experience with web scraping and data mining is a plus.
• Advanced statistics and computational skill is a plus - e.g. modeling, machine learning, programming.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8w0x6-18-97-9-169-42 in your application.