Fintech Behavioral Analyst 2020 Internship
- Contact: Julio Lavalle
- E-mail: julio@poupacerto.com
- Address: 3400 Prospect St. NW. Washington DC
- Phone: 202-375-9710
- Website: http://mibolsillo.pe/en/
Description of Organization and Population Served
Through a mobile app, MiBolsillo substantailly reduces the operational costs for microfinancial institutions by using a proprietary credit score that allows these MFIs to access the unbanked/underbanked populations - usually MSMEs looking for flexible financing and payment solutions for their small businesses in the digital economy. In turn, MiBolsillo digitizes financial behaviors and transactions of those users to provide them with a digital financial identity that will later be used to access the financial services they need. MiBosillo is rapidly expanding across Latin America and is currently working in Peru, Brazil, Guatemala and Mexico. The company was recently name one of the top fintechs of Peru and has just finished the Village Capital Fast Forward LATAM - named as the best fintech accelerator. We're currently being part of the Halcyon Accelerator in Washington DC.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern
https://angel.co/company/mibolsillo-financial-tecnologies/jobs/836002-fintech-behavioral-analyst-2020-internship - • Researching consumer trends • Analysing qual and quant research to identify killer insights • Writing engaging reports and innovative case studies • Telling stories through data • Survey design and research design • Conduct investigations and interviews • Presenting new trends and ideas • Perform administrative tasks to facilitate a long-term behavioral science research study including recruitment, correspondence, instrument deployment, data management, documentation, etc.
Special Qualifications
• Background in research and/or behavioral sciences desirable (knowledge and experience on quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods for social research to elicit insights for improving user experience). • Educational background in psychology, sociology, anthropology, behavioral economics, or other human-centered scientific fields is a +. • Ability to distil complex data and ideas into plain language • Highly organized, methodical, and reliable work habits • First-class wordsmith and communicator • Proactive and self-motivated • Commercially aware and culturally attuned • Experience (preferred) or strong interest, aptitude, and coursework in data analysis (statistics, visualization, etc). Python, R, or similar. • Spoken Spanish/Portuguese is a +.
Hourly Commitment Per Week
20
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?
This position is aimed to profiles ranging from psychologists to behavioral economists as it looks to bring different perspectives to the understanding of our users' financial lives to add to MiBolsillo's goal to lead the fintech for financial inclusion industry in Latin America. This is an exciting role for someone to make direct impact on the company’s value proposition and customer experience. Because the main tasks are related to researching and analyzing cultural, social, and technological shifts as well as changes in the fintech industry and users chnaging behaviors, a background in Cognitive Science becomes key. With your street smarts, a blend of quantitative & qualitative skills and will to get your hands dirty, you'll be recruiting, interviewing, moderating, analyzing culture, pouring over data, and writing about those powerful findings. You’ll need to excel at problem-solving, have emotional intelligence, and be a superb writer.
Foundation AI
- Contact: Vivek Rao
- E-mail: info@foundationai.com
- Address: 4212 Glencoe Ave.
- Phone: 3102948955
- Website: http://foundationai.com
Description of Organization and Population Served
Foundation AI leverages artificial intelligence to automate manual data extraction and processing in order to drive real business impact. We utilize natural language processing, computer vision, and learning capabilities to derive actionable insights, extract structured data, and optimize decision making for businesses. Foundation AI products are widely used in legal, healthcare, government, and insurance sectors by allowing businesses to interpret and analyze text to automate data gathering, processing, and entry.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern
Foundation AI is looking for UI/UX design intern to aid in creating a solid interface for our products by translating business requirements into creative and effective designs. This will include understanding and representing user needs, defining a vision for our products, and working closely with our data science and engineering team to deliver high quality products.
Special Qualifications
We are looking for someone with strong communication and organization skills who can collaborate well with other members of our various teams. Strong candidates will be creative problem-solvers and willing to take initiative on projects. Special qualifications include proficiency in UI/UX design, product management, and analytics.
Hourly Commitment Per Week
15-20
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?
The interdisciplinary background of cognitive science will allow our intern to help create a user experience tailored to our clients by understanding their behavior and understanding how the clients think. Students with cognitive science background will also have good understanding of how human-computer experience ties to the products we are making and will be expected to use their knowledge on human cognition and artificial intelligence solutions.
GrowSquares
- Contact: Daeshaun McClintock
- E-mail: daeshaun@growsquares.com
- Address: 81 Prospect St. Brooklyn NY 11201
- Phone: Contact by email.
- Website: https://www.growsquares.com
Description of Organization and Population Served
GrowSquares engineers personalized urban gardens using advanced microbiology and data science. We've developed a proprietary two-part system built upon a mobile app engineered to identify the unique attributes of each users’ microclimate – along with providing our users tailored instructions on how best to garden – and a modular garden topper, composed of the precise soil composites (nutrients, minerals, etc.) most needed to grow our plants. With highly individualized gardening plans, backed up by our robust research and prediction algorithms, GrowSquares strives to simplify the gardening process so anyone can enjoy the fruits of gardening without worrying about what plants to choose or when to water them.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern
GrowSquares is looking for iOS developers to help design, implement, and evolve our mobile app. Interns will partake in all aspects of mobile application development, including creating new UI elements, connecting with our backend servers, and maintaining the codebase.
Special Qualifications
Interns should be familiar with iOS development in general. The following tools are used most regularly: 1. Swift, Xcode, Git 2. UIKit (primary), SnapKit, SwiftUI (knowledge preferred) 3. Asynchronous network calls 4. Other SDKs such as Firebase, Facebook SDK, Stripe
Hourly Commitment Per Week
20
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?
Students who major in Cognitive Science and focus on Computer Science will gain hands-on experience with real-world programming and learn good coding practices that will be important for their future careers. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to use their psychology and other interdisciplinary knowledge learned in Cognitive Science courses to develop smart and elegant mobile applications that contribute value to the world.
HelloAdvisr
- Contact: Laurent Haagsma
- E-mail: laurent@helloadvisr.com
- Address: Remote ¦ 8601 Lincoln Blvd, Suite 180, Los Angeles, CA 90045
- Phone: 323-940-3220
- Website: https://www.helloadvisr.com
Description of Organization and Population Served
We are growth partners helping entrepreneurs and fast-growing companies leverage pricing and best-in-class go-to-market strategies to deliver sustainable high-growth. Most companies struggle with pricing and monetization. In fact, it is a top 5 reason why new ventures fail. Unfortunately, not everyone finds the help they need to tackle these topics. Large companies (and mature startups) use expensive consulting firms; we want to make this accessible to all, so we have developed a suite of technology-based solutions to achieve this.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern
We have been building a Software layer on top of our existing Advisory services. This product is in stealth mode. We have already conducted successful UAT, validated the need, the business model and sustainable revenue stream. As we conduct further testing, we would like to invite someone to join us in the journey. We have an MVP which is constantly evolving. We estimate we have only tackled 5% of what could be done; but for now, we’re staying focused. Improvements to front-end, back-end, environment, all are up for grabs. We have a plan on what we wish to tackle but we're also very open to new ideas. What will you want to tackle?
Special Qualifications
* A smart person, willing to think outside the box and happy to have an open discussion. While we have strong expertise in the market we are targeting; we are playing in an unchartered territory when it comes to how we are tackling it. * An entrepreneurial spirit. Willing to be agile, learn on the go, go beyond what a standard developer would do in a bigger team * A tinkerer, pursuing a technical degree or with equivalent experience with a strong foundation in the fundamentals of computer science, a strong development basis and a willingness to find solutions on their own. * We are not developers ourselves but have worked alongside them so we know the language (just don’t expect us to be purists when it comes to naming things!). * Skillsets which we're interested in: full stack (tackle both the front and the back-end of the issue); good basis in modern web development, frameworks, programming languages, and database solutions; ability to work on a solution together with non-tech specialists * Due to the global nature of our team, the ability to spend a few hours either early morning PST or late evening PST (Hours flexible under prior arrangement). You will still have a point of contact the whole day PST.
Hourly Commitment Per Week
10-20 (flexible)
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?
When talking pricing, we are tackling a topic that everyone knows, but very few actually comprehend. Pricing is not just 1 number; it is thousands of decisions. It is not just building an algorithm; it is also understanding how different people will tackle the elements of this algorithm. It is building a medium that offers as much coaching as it does number crunching.
KAV
- Contact: Whitman Kwok
- E-mail: uclainternships@kavsports.com
- Address: 520 Broadway, Santa Monica
- Phone: (650) 440-6588
- Website: http://kavsports.com
Description of Organization and Population Served
KAV makes custom helmets in 8 billion sizes to fit the best, the weird and the beautiful. Knowing the best helmet is the one that fits you, the 3D printed KAV Portola helmet exceeds industry safety standards by at least 25% and has won Cycling's Innovation and Design Award, the Red Dot Design Awards and Time Magazine’s Invention of 2022. The intersection of additive manufacturing, polymer science and software creates lightning in a bottle, leap frogging existing foam helmets. We’re looking for interns who share our mission of saving lives and reducing brain trauma.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern
One of the challenges of a custom helmet is communicating the brand and how the helmet will look so it exceeds the customer's expectations when it arrives on their doorstep. There are two opportunities for one or more interns that will accelerate our mission to protect the next generation of athletes.
We’re looking for an intern to analyze our web analytics, social media traffic and in person feedback to engage with the cycling community. Projects may include one or more of the following depending on your skills and experience:
• Provider interactive and informative info graphics and web pages that engage as much as they inform.
• Provide as an immersive experience as possible for every feature, to convey every aspect of the helmet and how it will benefit cyclists.
• Implement an AR plugin to our website so a customer can see how the helmet would look and fit on their head.
• Create and/or augment a fit app to help guide customers through the fit process.
You will work with and have the full support of our CTO, David, who led Search Quality and YouTube recommendations at Google and can play the drums with the best of them and our Head of Marketing who has launched some of the biggest apparel brands in SoCal and makes a mean home baked bagel.
Special Qualifications
• Driven - as your interaction with the team will largely be text, calls and a weekly hour meeting, interns must be self-motivated and operate with a high degree of autonomy.
• Analytical skills - both projects benefit from A/B testing, analytics and user engagement to optimize both the online experience and community engagement.
• HTML, CSS and Javascript experience to modify our website to post instructional content but also create a seamless (and ideally fun) UX as the person measures and provides their data. Experience with the Apple ecosystem is a plus.
Hourly Commitment Per Week
12-15
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?
Your work engages your coursework in the following ways:
• Analyze and learn how customer experiences can be optimized for their enjoyment and benefit
• Implement new technology (AR) in a meaningful and beneficial application
• Learn how to build a community and relationships to accelerate our mission of protecting the next generation of athletes.
NextBest AI, Inc
- Contact: Minh Mai
- E-mail: minh@nextbest.com
- Address: 200 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA (Covel Commons)
- Phone: 7142249798
- Website: https://nextbest.com
Description of Organization and Population Served
NextBest is an online marketplace where users can search, shop, and sell apparel among their local community. Existing local marketplace platforms have a generic design that is not pleasant for shopping fashion. By prioritizing the value of community and offering the user experience customers expect from shopping apps, NextBest makes shopping and selling secondhand apparel more convenient, enjoyable, and efficient.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern
We are looking for a) Software Engineering Interns, b) Product Design or UX/UI Interns, and C) Marketing Interns. We are a small startup team focused on increasing our user base and improving our product as quickly as possible. Because of that, all interns will have the opportunity to work extensively on individualized and high impact projects throughout the quarter. Come join the team!
Special Qualifications
Please shoot us an email that includes your resume, the position you are interested in, and a short tidbit as to why you are a great fit for the NextBest team. Interest in entrepreneurship, fashion, e-commerce, and/or product development is a huge plus.
Hourly Commitment Per Week
7-12
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?
Product development, product design, and product marketing all require an extensive application of human focused processes. At NextBest AI, we strive to create solutions that simplify and improve the lives of our users. A strong understanding of the mind and human behavior is necessary to do so.
Pareto Operations Intern
- Contact: Phoebe Yao
- E-mail: phoebe@hellopareto.com
- Address: 8145 Halifax Drive, Saint Louis, MO
- Phone: 3144593291
- Website: http://www.hellopareto.com
Description of Organization and Population Served
Pareto helps startup founders overcome the distinct challenges at every stage of the entrepreneurial journey. Whether you’re exploring a new idea, launching your MVP, or scaling to 1M users, the Pareto team takes care of handling tedious or repetitive tasks.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern
The Intern will be responsible for (but not limited to): Business Operations and Product Development - learning and assisting with research into operations team behavior, developing strategic product roadmaps based on research, and building workflow automation to streamline team behavior.
Special Qualifications
Understanding of product roadmaps and lifecycles through previous product management experience preferred. Company value alignment and previous experience working in a startup environment.
Hourly Commitment Per Week
20
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?
The product operations/management role requires the intern to apply technical skills learned in programming courses, understanding of behavior/thinking of clients learned in psychology coursework, and analysis of data/metrics learned from mathematics/statistics coursework. The skills acquired through the interdisciplinary nature of the Cognitive Science major will allow the intern to successfully manage projects and help scale the future of Pareto’s business.
Plan Provide
- Contact: Mark Lee
- E-mail: mark@planprovide.com
- Address: 202 Bicknell Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405
- Phone: 8588636533
- Website: https://www.planprovide.com
Description of Organization and Population Served
Plan Provide helps insurance professionals enroll seniors in their optimal Medicare plan. Founded by LA’s Mucker Capital and Techstars alum, Plan Provide is a tech startup aimed at simplifying health insurance for seniors. Those turning 65 in the US are overwhelmed by the hundreds of Medicare plans to choose from and there are no good resources to help with making this choice. We are on a mission to make Medicare simple by providing the best tools to those helping the individuals
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern
The marketing intern will work closely with the CEO to ultimately drive customer growth through the company’s marketing and sales efforts. Tasks include content marketing for our website, email marketing and social media. We will work with the numbers to see how things are performing using the latest analytics tools. Finally, the intern may help with data-collection tasks to enable the company to better understand overall sales and marketing performance. The intern will gain a wide exposure to various aspects of a early stage tech startup.
Special Qualifications
Those with a technical or mathematics background will work with Python, ReactJS, and SQL. For marketing, we look for both a data-driven mindset to make sense of the numbers and a creative mentality to brainstorm ideas that can boost our growth. Healthcare and insurance are highly complex areas and will require high detail orientation.
Hourly Commitment Per Week
10
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?
We use insights derived from user behavior to ultimately get the user to move through the marketing funnel. The human-computer interaction is integral to our user experience and one that is rooted in behavioral and cognitive sciences.
Research Assistant at Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies
- Contact: Nicco Reggente, Ph.D.
- E-mail: nicco@advancedconsciousness.org
- Address: 2811 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 510 Santa Monica, CA 90403
- Phone: 3109079216
- Website: https://www.advancedconsciousness.org
Description of Organization and Population Served
We leverage neuroimaging, neuromodulation, neurofeedback and virtual reality to assist individuals with transitioning into personalized, favorable states of consciousness.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern
The intern will serve as a Research Assistant to the Principal Investigator in scheduling participants, issuing behavioral questionnaires, preparing EEG and stimulus presentation software, and assisting with data organization and analysis.
Special Qualifications
Experience with EEG and Python is a bonus. Otherwise, no special qualifications. All training will be provided on-site.
Hourly Commitment Per Week
8
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?
Our protocols are centered around determining neural correlates of consciousness and using neurofeedback and neuromodulation to re-instantiate those correlates.
Rice Games
- Contact: Julian Rice
- E-mail: julian@ricegames.net
- Address: 11210 W Sardis Ave #202 Los Angeles CA 90064
- Phone: 4157062315
- Website: http://www.ricegames.net
Description of Organization and Population Served
Rice Games is a brand new indie game studio filled with entrepreneurial spirits that are looking to design and create video games that change the industry. Founded in September 2018, Rice Games is a lean startup that may still be in its infancy, but is looking to enthrall core gamers and language learners alike through their first project, Shujinkou.
Description of Fieldwork Project and Responsibilities of Intern
Interns will be able to gain skills in this unique dual internship, spending odd weeks learning about entrepreneurial marketing and social media data analysis, and spending even weeks working on small, but complex video game projects that will help develop a mind for game logic, proper design, and clean and efficient programming. The final will be a multipage single-spaced essay that will consist of research on appealing and creating new markets, as well as portions on efficient programming and the steps behind designing a fun to play video game.
Special Qualifications
Interns should be familiar with some programming language (C++ preferred, basic knowledge of classes), with at least PIC10A completed. Skilled writers and those that are passionate with numbers and video games is a plus.
Hourly Commitment Per Week
10-15
How does this relate to Cognitive Science?
Understanding the relationship between a person's known interests and unknown interests is a key component in designing video games that attempt to appeal not only to core gamers, but to new markets as well. Using visual stimuli and storytelling within Rice Games' projects will be able to invoke emotions from players, and one big goal of this internship is to find ways to bring out many emotions from the player. Further developing programming logic and intuition through video game programming will allow the Intern to become a more proficient programmer, and data analysis and advanced topics such as Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics will become easier to pick up.