BSE Global’s (Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty, NetsGC, Long Island Nets and Barclays Center) Summer Internship Program is an excellent learning environment for college seniors, grad students, and recent grads seeking hands-on experience within the sports and entertainment industry.

The Summer Internship is a part-time, paid program that begins June 4 to August 19, 2024. Start and end dates can be flexible depending on your academic calendar.

Our Internship program is located at our Industry City Corporate Headquarters in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Summer Interns are expected to work about 35-40 hours per week in office. Each intern will be assigned to a specific department or department or rotation cycle for the duration of the program.

We host interns in a variety of departments, including:

Consumer and Arena Marketing

• Work with the arena marketing team to promote concerts, family programming, college basketball and other live entertainment at Barclays Center and other BSE Global properties
• Work with the consumer marketing team to help drive ticket sales for Brooklyn Nets games and other BSE Global events
• Conduct and compile market research
• Prepare and submit creative request forms for marketing materials
• Draft and submit email requests for newsletters, presale, and pre-event emails
• Manage in-arena TV systems and promotional content for events
• Attend events to help capture and create content for social media platforms

Communications:

• Drafting press releases, writing media advisories and pitch letters.
• Monitoring media coverage and compiling media clippings into recap documents.
• Compiling award submission information and helping draft submission materials.
• Help the department strategize for relevant PR initiatives through research and ideation of new outlets, mediums, and communications techniques.
• Work with other members of the department to coordinate media for PR activations, as well as conventional events, at BSE Global venues.
• Staffing events as necessary

Community Relations:

• Managing incoming donation requests.
• Assisting with consolidating external databases.
• Providing support to all CR initiatives from strategizing to execution.
• Building relationships with community partners.
• Developing one community event or program that falls under at least one of our pillars.
• Setting up two informational interviews outside of our department.

Brooklyn Youth Basketball

• Contributing to the growth of the Brooklyn Nets Basketball Academy, including execution of summer camp platform.
• Supporting Brooklyn Basketball team to assess 2023-2024 program, evaluate partners, areas for improvement and planning for expansion of program for 2024-2025 including adding additional DOE schools and other new partners.
• Working with team to brainstorm 2025 summer program, potential locations.
• Helping manage new Brooklyn Basketball website.

Game Presentation & Entertainment:

• Game day operations: performance teams locker room set up and break down for both liberty and nets
• Assisting with costume needs (designer errand runs, day to day errands)
• Manage game day meals and relationship with caterers
• Assist with the coordination and execution of audition classes and events
• Gameday:
  • Work with Senior Manager, game presentation operations to ensure smooth activation and back of house logistics for Liberty games
  • Serve as assistant stage manager, handling performer and guest coordination
  • Handle and distribute game production documents on game nights
  • Become point person for all game production props and back of house organization needs
• Non-gameday:
  • Work with Senior Manager, game presentation operations to build and manage schedules for part-time game presentation employees
  • Constantly research and pitch relevant, trending game presentation activation ideas; stay on pulse of industry and social media trends
  • Contribute to overall theme and Unite night pre-production ideas and programming

Ticket Sales & Operations

• Assist in the day-to-day operations of the Ticketing Department
• Assist in planning, promoting, and executing all Ticketing Department events, including but not limited to:
  • Premium events, prospecting events and season ticket member appreciation events
  • Name tags, check-in lists, researching venues, check-in, set-up/tear-down, and post-event evaluation.
  • Research new event venues and member engagement opportunities
• Assist with management and storage of premium items inventory and distribution
• Handle administrative tasks for the department (check requests, production requests, etc.)
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Candidates must be fully available for the duration of the internship.
• Please note potential game day and special event responsibilities may include late nights and weekends.

Content (Production & Social Media):

• Social Media (Nets and Liberty):
  • Content publishing support
  • Content ideation and trend monitoring
  • Analytics and reporting
• Video:
  • Editing support
  • Shooting games, press conferences, events
  • Photography
• Operations/Strategy:
  • Logging
  • Logistics and planning
  • Game Presentation content and ideation

Brand Marketing

• Fan Engagement & Development:
  • Support programming and activation planning and development for Brooklyn Nets Tentpole games (FNL, Best of Brooklyn, Nets Unite, Kids Games and Fan Appreciation) (2024-25 Season)
  • Support Summer programming across Fan Eng/Dev and Brooklyn Basketball events
  • Support execution of Fan Mail and First Game Digital Certificate programs
  • Assist in onboarding of BK Block
• Brand Copywriter:
  • Support brand storytelling and messaging guide development
  • Draft copy across key Summer programming promotional assets
  • Support development of messaging for Fan Engagement / Dev Tentpole games
  • Support brand strategy ideation on specific projects (Brooklyn Nets focused)

Guest Experience

• Provide event coordination support

Public Relations

• Create a daily briefing of news clippings and assist with media monitoring;
• Assist in writing and production of player bios, media guides and other media materials;
• Analyze, track and upkeep statistics to compile team and player information for press materials;
• Contribute to research projects and team photo archives;
• Assist the department at offseason press conferences and PR related events.

Data, Analytics, & Insights

• Support in the administration and maintenance of the Salesforce CRM system, including data entry, report generation, and system updates.
• Assist in managing sales operations tasks such as lead management, sales tracking, and performance analysis.
• Help in creating and organizing sales enablement technologies, materials and resources for sales reps, sales leaders & Data, Analytics & Insights staff
• Develop and update data visualization dashboards to present complex data in an understandable and visually appealing manner.
• Assist in data pipeline health assessments & tasks to help the data science team quickly complete projects & initiatives
• Participate in data science projects, including data modeling and predictive analysis, under the guidance of experienced team members.
• Support data analysis tasks by collecting, sorting, and analyzing data to provide actionable insights for business decisions.
• Identify and suggest improvements in data management and CRM processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Perform in-depth market research on fan demographics and emerging sales enablement technologies, aimed at enhancing departmental understanding of key market trends and available tools.

Information Technology

• Updating tasks and projects in our project management platform
• Research on potential vendors that are part of RFP's
• Create and update documentation
• Testing applications and meeting with stakeholders on deliverables

Finance

• Departmental Reporting - Gather actual expenses in correct accounts/budget categories.
• Update Trackers.
• Run Monthly Reports.
• Other Ad Hoc Analysis.
• Excel experience required.

REQUIREMENTS:

• This program is designed for college seniors, students engaged in graduate studies, or recent graduates
• All interns must be authorized to work in the US for any employer

SALARY RANGE

$18/hr

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, January 29, 2024

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) Employer. It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of the Company not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, transgender status, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state or local laws.