Role location:  Remote

Intern-to-hire – Gaming & Technology Insights

About the Role:
We’re looking for an Intern to join our growing team and participate in our successful Intern-to-hire program. This is a great opportunity to gain a well-rounded experience with a leading consumer market research and consulting firm focused on the intersection of traditional and new media both domestically and internationally. This is an internship position and Interpret will provide all necessary training. However, prior experience or coursework in market research and media/entertainment is a plus. This role is remote and perfect for anyone looking for flexibility. A strong performance in this internship could lead to a full-time offer!

This role requires the ability to think critically, tell a story using data, provide top-notch client service, and work with a team of equally passionate technology and media enthusiasts. The ideal candidate is someone with a social science research education and a demonstrated interest in market research (through school and/or a past internship or direct experience at a traditional research supplier), with a personal passion for digital media, gaming, and technology in general who wants to apply their analytic chops and methodological expertise to consumer insights and business intelligence collected via multiple approaches.

About the company:
Interpret is a global media, entertainment and technology insights agency. We work with the biggest brands in entertainment and technology, across video games, movies and television, consumer electronics, social media and advertising platforms. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Seattle, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Shanghai and Seoul, you will be working on behalf of industry-leading clients to help them make smart, data-driven business decisions across the digital media, gaming, and consumer electronic product lifecycle. You will be responsible for helping ensure quality, client-ready deliverables, working with a team of smart, passionate analysts.

  Responsibilities

• Provide support with custom market research projects for video game, mobile, home entertainment, theatrical, and media & advertising clients (domestic and international attitude and usage studies, forecasting, market trend analysis, advertising effectiveness studies, etc.)
• Assist in all phases of the quantitative and qualitative research process, including vendor management, study design, questionnaire and discussion guide development, field/recruiting, and tab, data analysis and report generation
• Adhere to quality control processes at each stage of the research process across survey programming logic, data tables, participant rescreening (qual), and reports
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data, helping write cogent data-backed “stories”

 Key Skills Needed

• Deep intellectual curiosity
• Genuine interest in market research and gaming/media
• Analytical; possess an ability to understand and translate research results to help tell a relevant and compelling story
• Team-oriented; enjoy growing with other team members
• Multi-task capable and time-sensitive; proficient in working on multiple research projects simultaneously and under tight deadlines
• Self-starter with the ability to work under minimal supervision (takes initiative and looks for process efficiencies whenever possible)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a highly-collaborative team environment
• Familiarity with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook
• Communicative; excellent communications skills, both verbal and written
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint; SPSS a plus
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  Experience:

• 0-2 years of experience in marketing research (supplier-side)
• Relevant degrees, such as business administration, market research, sociology, psychology, or anthropology a plus

Nice to have but not required:

• Experience with advanced analytic software such as SPSS/R/STATA
• Foreign language fluency
• PPT deck design skills

Salary:
Hourly rate based on experience

Job function:
Insights Analyst, Project Support

Number of openings – 3