Remote Data & Analytics Intern - Summer 2027

NBA; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The NBA offers a 10-week Summer Internship (June 7 – August 13, 2027) exposing interns to business areas across the NBA, WNBA, and G League. The program emphasizes data collection, analysis, and the application of AI tools to drive business outcomes, with professional development and community experiences.

Selected interns support data work in content, media, fan engagement, digital products, and basketball initiatives, collaborating with multiple departments and leaders.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in an undergraduate program and entering Senior year.
• Majors commonly pursued include Business, Data Analytics, CS, Data Science, Economics, Finance, IS, Sports/Technology Management, Statistics.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with data engineers, data analysts, and BI developers on end-to-end model development and deployment to the wider NBA business infrastructure.
• Design statistical analysis and visualizations that relate to league structure, rule changes, game play, improvements to the competition format.
• Implementation of technologies to improve player health, game integrity, and fan engagement across all NBA properties, including the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, and NBA 2K League.
• Performing various cross-departmental quantitative analyses regarding on-court activities and trends, which are used to evaluate the NBA’s core product.
• Working with data governance managers to ensure NBA data meets all safety and privacy requirements.
• Collaborating with digital content and reporting teams to assess NBA content performance across social and digital platforms, shaping key strategic decisions.
• Contributing to a cross-functional strategy and operations project in collaboration with the Basketball Technology & Innovation team.
• Researching potential applications of advanced tools and technologies to help expand our technical and analytical offerings.
• Updating CRM system with relevant sports tech-related news and contacts.
• Publishing and maintaining customized interactive reports and dashboards using Tableau Server.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Statistics

Presentation

Project management

Documentation

Education

Undergraduate student, entering senior year

Majors: Business or Data Analytics, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Sports/Technology Management, Statistics

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Tableau Desktop

Job description

The NBA offers a 10-week Summer Internship (June 7 – August 13, 2027) exposing interns to business areas across the NBA, WNBA, and G League. The program emphasizes data collection, analysis, and the application of AI tools to drive business outcomes, with professional development and community experiences.

Selected interns support data work in content, media, fan engagement, digital products, and basketball initiatives, collaborating with multiple departments and leaders.