Fraud Analytics Internship - Spring 2027

PrizePicks; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing stipend

Catered lunches

Networking with interns

PTO and Holidays

Company events

Job summary

PrizePicks, a fast-growing North American sports tech company, is seeking a Fraud Analytics Intern in Atlanta to tackle real fraud questions with real data. You’ll work onsite with our Fraud Analytics team, exploring patterns across onboarding and payments while learning how to balance risk with a great user experience.

You’ll gain hands-on experience building dashboards, evaluating controls, and communicating insights to Fraud Ops and Product teams. Authorized U.S.

Qualifications

• SQL skills with joins, window functions, and aggregations.
• Excel/Google Sheets proficiency and basic statistics.
• Experience or coursework with Python, R, or Tableau is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Investigate fraud patterns in onboarding, promos, and payments to size risk and suggest fixes.
• Measure control effectiveness with before/after analyses, holdouts, and backtests on legitimate users.
• Build dashboards and assist in maintaining a fraud metric dictionary; triage data issues with Engineering.

Skills

SQL

Excel/Sheets

Statistics basics

Python

R

Tableau

Project presentation

Education

Pursuing Bachelor’s/Master’s in Statistics/Data Science/CS

Tools

Python

R

Tableau

Job description

At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 550 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together?

Fraud Analytics Intern

Every fan deserves a fair game. Our Fraud Analytics team works to prevent people from trying to game the system, while making sure the vast majority of legitimate players never feel a thing. This paid internship in Atlanta works directly on real fraud questions with real data alongside our analysts and Fraud Operations.

What You’ll Do

• Investigate Fraud Patterns: Analyze onboarding, promo, and payment activity to spot abuse, size the risk, and recommend fixes that reduce fraud loss without adding friction for good players.
• Measure What Works: Evaluate fraud controls using before/after comparisons, holdouts, and backtests, including the impact on legitimate users.
• Build a Single Source of Truth: Build dashboards and help maintain a lightweight fraud and payment metric dictionary, and triage data anomalies with Engineering so the numbers stay trustworthy.
• Support Stakeholders: Answer ad-hoc questions from Fraud Ops and Product with clear, reliable information and concise recommendations.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven SQL Skills: You're comfortable with joins, window functions, and aggregations. Coursework and projects count.
• Analysis Tools: Proficiency with Excel/Google Sheets and stats basics like hypothesis testing. Python, R, or Tableau is a plus.
• A Project to Show Off: Something you can walk us through, ideally where you balanced competing goals or competing priorities. Class, work, club, and personal projects all count.
• Excellent Communication: You can explain complex concepts clearly to non-technical teammates and you're curious about how systems get abused. Plus, you have a passion for sports!

What You’ll Learn

• Risk vs. Experience: How to make decisions that reduce fraud loss while protecting the vast majority of legitimate players.
• Fraud in Today's World: How payment fraud, identity fraud, bonus abuse, and multi-accounting work in an online transactional environment.
• Meaningful Metrics: How to design metrics that are actually useful and keep them accurate over time.
• Industry Dynamics: How the Daily Fantasy landscape, including regulations, shapes fraud and customer experience strategies.

What we are looking for

• Student Profile: This internship is for rising juniors, seniors, Master's students, or recent graduates, within 1 semester of graduation, who are authorized to work in the U.S.
• Majors: We’re open to a wide range of majors like Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Economics, and Computer Science, but the most important thing is your passion for data and decision-making!

Where you’ll work:

Our interns workonsite at our West Midtown Atlanta location.

Spring Program:

January 25 - April 30, 2026

Included perks:

• Housing stipend for those interns relocating to Atlanta
• Frequent catered lunches
• Networking and collaboration with fellow interns and industry professionals
• Social events with the Atlanta PrizePicks team
• PTO and Paid Holidays

Working at PrizePicks:

The analytics intern's starting hourly rate is $30. At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you'll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process.

Benefits you’ll receive:

In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks:

• Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Annual bonus
• Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
• Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
• Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
• Company-wide in-person events and team outings
• Lifestyle enhancement program
• Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
• Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development

You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.