User Research Intern, Sleeper
$20 USD to $32 USD per hour
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Fantasy sports app
Open for applications
Fantasy sports app
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$20 USD to $32 USD per hour
More information about location
2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect people over sports.
Role
Who you are
- Are pursuing a degree in a related field with a graduation date in 2025, or new grad with around 1 or fewer years of experience
- Understand the fundamentals of user research and have a strong attention to detail
- Love collaborating and can juggle multiple projects
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment as a proactive self-starter—at Sleeper, we go above and beyond and sweat the details
- Have an eagerness to learn and are genuinely curious or passionate about sports
Desirable
- Hold a degree in HCI, information sciences, stats, data analytics, human-centered design, or a related field
- Have run usability tests—in-person or remote—for mobile apps
- Are skilled with remote testing tools, surveys, or analytics dashboards
- Have experience with fantasy sports, daily fantasy, or sports betting—or just a serious passion for football or basketball
What the job involves
- If You’re Drafted, You’ll…
- Support research projects and help synthesize findings for the team
- Monitor users’ app engagement metrics using internal dashboards
- Conduct benchmarking and ongoing monitoring of our competitors for updates
- Help set up and take part in UX quality assurance reviews
- Join a small cohort of interns collaborating with mentors and senior team members
- Get onboarded to our research process and ramp up to full projects, including a capstone
- Completing the 12-week program gives you priority for our open full-time roles
Our take
The popularity of being able to create fantasy teams and enjoy watching sports virtually has taken socialising around sports to a virtual level. In fact, the fantasy sports market size is expected to reach $48.6 billion by 2027. Sleeper was initially an app on which users discussed fantasy sports, but in 2017, it began hosting free fantasy football leagues, competing with sites like Yahoo. Integrating social media and sports, the company is now known to be one of the best DFS communities to hang out on.
Through substantial funding, Sleeper is expanding the game offerings on its platform and in 2022, release a new feature called Wallet that enables users to sync their preferred payment methods to the platform.
There has been consistent growth for the platform since its founding and it has successfully attracted a loyal user base.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$40m
SERIES C
May 2020
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $67.3m
Company benefits
- 401k and health insurance
- Unlimited Vacations
- Regular virtual game-time with the team with company-sponsored snacks
- Company-sponsored fantasy leagues with real prizes
- Team outing every quarter and company retreat once a year
Company HQ
Paradise, NV
Leadership
Nan Wang
(Co-Founder & CEO)After studying went on to become a Senior Analyst at Fidelity Investments, Representative for China Investment Corporation and Private Equity Investor at Neuberger Berman.
Henry Leung
(Co-Founder)Worked as an Android Developer at Vevo, Senior iOS Developer at Dwell Media and Lead Mobile Engineer at Whil Concepts.
Ken Wang
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a NET Web Engineer at Genex/O’Grady Meyers, Senior C# Engineer at Decore-ative Specialties and UI Engineering Tech Lead (TV/Console Platform) at Vevo.
Weixi Yen
(Co-Founder)Worked as a Software Engineer at Kabam and then went on to work through several roles at Storm8, most recently as an Engineering Manager.
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