Our executive team is looking for a detail-oriented, ambitious intern to support 2022 business development initiatives in sports, music, and digital media. You'll be acting as a research assistant and junior strategist on high-priority projects within the New Business group. We need someone who can furnish helpful, reliable data; perform basic analysis; extrapolate trends; and elegantly summarize findings verbally and in writing.

This is an exciting opportunity for big-picture thinkers and aspiring leaders, as you’ll be sitting with the CEO and business partners in high-level meetings. It’s also a chance to feed your intellectual curiosity, as we’ll be discussing market trends, long-term predictions, and blue-sky opportunities. Your input is welcomed, but we’re not (only) looking for an “ideas person.” We need a diligent researcher who can help us validate theories with cold, hard facts.

Over the course of the internship, you’ll dive into live TV and OTT viewership, audience demographics, and financials for media companies—plus historical trends and future projections. You’ll collect relevant statistics, point us to good sources, and deliver your research in an intelligent, readable format. You’ll also help prepare analyses of other companies in the sports media marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Researching audience data, financial data, and market trends related to sports and music media
• Accurately sourcing and cross-checking facts and statistics
• Writing reports that combine research with intelligent summary, commentary, and analysis
• Attending regular business development meetings, taking notes, and participating when appropriate
• Recommending subscriptions or paywalled assets when pertinent
• Helping brainstorm new business initiatives and approaches.

The ideal candidate…
…is interested in live sports (the big 5 and beyond), live music, and the frontier of “new media.” You know the major players in broadcasting, streaming, and publishing. You understand key technologies in the space. You already know where to look for audience data, revenue data, consumer trends, and market projections. You have a global perspective, especially when it comes to sports.

Perhaps most importantly, you can distinguish useful information from the junk science, vanity statistics, and cherry-picked observations endemic to popular business media. That means cross-checking citations, tracing statistics back to original studies, and untangling conflicts of interest in privately-funded research. Your favorite word is provenance, and you’ll be able to vouch for it with everything you share.

This is a writing-intensive position; in addition to your research acumen, it should go without saying that you can produce elevated, error-free copy suitable for a business audience.

Details

• $25/hour
• Estimated 12-20 hours per week including meetings and calls
• Start date is immediate; end date is May 1
• Remote work with video conferencing and virtual collaboration (in-person meetings may become optional, but not required, depending on COVID conditions)
• Reports to Senior Brand Manager; works directly with CEO and senior executives
• Los Angeles-based company with business hours of 9am-6pm PST.

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  Current enrollment as an undergrad or graduate student at a Los Angeles-area university, junior/3rd-year and above*
• Availability for meetings between 10am and 4pm PST**
• U.S. work eligibility
• Familiarity with the resources and tactics needed to research sports and music media, marketing, technology, and revenue
• Basic knowledge of relevant concepts and terms
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Reliable Internet; access to Google and/or Microsoft tools (email, calendars, web conferencing, word processing, editing, file sharing, and spreadsheets)
• Discretion and confidentiality.

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  MBA candidates are preferred, but students from all majors will be considered if they have the aptitude, knowledge base, and professional interests described above.