Competitive Gaming (eSports) Intern
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play —it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
This internship is for Summer 2022.
Competitive Gaming (eSports) Intern
San Mateo, CA
Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking for a Competitive Gaming (eSports) Intern to join our established, high performance team in San Mateo, CA. Our ideal candidate is hardworking and passionate about this field.
Responsibilities:
- Study platform trends of PlayStation tournaments and revenue opportunities using statistical and hypothesis testing
- Perform analysis on the effect of global marketing and activations on tournament participation
- Track and report team KPIs and present updates to key stakeholders
- Pull data from PlayStation’s relational database using SQL and other query tools
- Intern will lead a presentation from start-to-finish: including ideating a study, querying/cleaning data, testing, presenting etc. by the end of the internship program
- Intern will work with tools including Microstrategy, PowerPoint, Excel, R, Python, Tableau
Qualifications:
- Collaborative individual with a passion for gaming
- Knowledgeable about the Esports industry; Esports competitor or administrative experience a plus!
- Comfort using Excel and Microsoft Office Suite to analyze data and present findings
- Academic interest or experience with Statistics, Econometrics, or Data science
- Patience to wrangle large data sets and seek trends out of messy data
- Experience with any of R, SQL, Stata, Python is a plus
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