Fraud Analytics Internship

At Prize Picks, 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?

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.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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!

Our interns work
onsite at our West Midtown Atlanta location.

January 25 - April 30, 2026

• 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 Prize Picks team
• PTO and Paid Holidays

The analytics intern's starting hourly rate is $30. At Prize Picks, 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…