Job Posting: TrackMan Analytics/Operations Intern
Position: TrackMan Analytics/Operations Intern
Location: Stamford, Conn.
Description:
Join TrackMan’s team as an Analytics/Operations Intern for TrackMan Baseball, a US based sports technology firm. You will take on a critical role in a small, fast moving entrepreneurial company that is breaking new ground in sports.
In this position, you will primarily be responsible for reviewing TrackMan data from a significant number of MLB, Minor League baseball and NCAA stadiums during the 2015 baseball season. You will also have the opportunity to perform statistical analysis as directed.
The internship starts in mid-February and wraps up at the conclusion of the Major League baseball season. Candidates with only summer availability will also be considered for a shorter term internship.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to break into the baseball community and get experience with data available exclusively to professional baseball teams. Full training is provided and you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with all members of the TrackMan staff and interface with our partner teams. Weekend and evening availability is important.
Requirements:
- Excellent knowledge of baseball
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work well with others
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Statistics, Mathematics or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of databases, SQL, and R statistical software
- Experience working with large baseball related data-sets.
- Python or other scripting language experience is a plus.
Compensation:
$12.50 an hour
To Apply:
Send a resume to nba@trackman.dk. No phone calls please.
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Same skill set requirements in a non-baseball position: $3O+ per hour.
For example: With a Masters degree and strong SQL skills you could become a Database Administrator.
Starting Salary is $57,000 a year.
A internship looking for someone with a Masters degree is just silly. Granted it is much better than the job posting for the Phillies which was unpaid, wanted a PhD or a Master Degree plus work experience in baseball and college or pro playing experience.
I’m going to send this to everyone who asks me in the future why I’m not taking my degree in economics and applying it to my love of baseball. I’d be much better off writing about baseball instead.
Calling all individuals seeking opportunities to become indentured servants for obscure start-up that’s tangentially related to MLB products. Coupled with near minimum wage is the potential to eventually have your detailed and impressive resume shredded and discarded by one of thirty MLB clubs. You may get an interview for a minor league club as a liaison between management and the people who throw out the first pitch. Apply within.
Actually this seems reasonable. It’s listed as an internship, and it pays a wage. Interns are usually the first people to be completely stiffed so it’s good that that isn’t the case. The “requirements” are reasonable for the wage, though the “desired skills” are a bit excessive.
I would have been more than happy to do this after my second or third year of college.
Agreed. It’s not entirely awful for a recent college grad w/o a useful major (i.e. a humanities or social science major) who happens to have decent mathematical or computer skills. The desired skills are a different matter entirely, as you state.
It’s *listed* as an internship, sure, but nothing about the job description sounds like one – it’s not providing training they can use in their future careers, or college credits. They expect the candidate to come in with advanced expertise and degrees at a level that would get them a better-compensated job and call it an ‘intern’ position to justify paying them well below what their skills would demand in any other industry.
I’d do this on the side for fun, but they want someone full time located in the office. That’s pretty tough to expect with that skillset.
This seems ridiculous to me, but for someone with only a BSc. in math, and no experience, and wanting to get in to the baseball industry, this isn’t too bad. At least it’s paid hourly and not salary, so OT should be paid.
Then again, who goes to uni for a math degree, and stops after four years?
For anybody with a MSc. though, this is unreasonable. At the very least those people could teach for twice that wage, and work in industry for 3-4 times that.
Do we get to meet Mantracker?
Best!
This is great timing. I was looking for a way out of Scranton after Casino Night.
Head for clear waters, Big Tuna.