Description

Visit the link to apply: Gaming Data Analytics Internship Opportunities – Xbox | Microsoft Careers

Overview:

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.  

Join the Xbox team as a Gaming Data Analyst Intern and help drive strategic insights for our valued publishing partners. In this role, you’ll explore the Xbox ecosystem to uncover data-driven opportunities that support game publishers and enhance their success on our platform. You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with a world-class team to solve real business challenges—formulating hypotheses, preparing data, conducting technical analysis, building visualizations, and crafting compelling data stories.

This internship is designed to accelerate your growth. You’ll gain hands-on experience, connect with a vibrant and diverse community, engage with Xbox leaders, and participate in unforgettable events that showcase our culture.

If you’re passionate about gaming and excited to turn data into impact—your journey starts here.

As an intern at Microsoft, you’re stepping into a world of real impact from day one. You’ll collaborate with global teams on meaningful projects, explore cutting-edge technologies like AI, and kick start your career while doing it. With a strong focus on learning and development, this is your opportunity to grow your skills, build community, and shape your future—all while being supported every step of the way.Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Begins to learn the business, the data landscape, tools, and technologies of that business and the lineage of those data and asks pertinent questions to ensure they understand requirements and/or issues relevant to both the business and its data landscape.
Develops foundational knowledge of data and business principles to support project analysis with a customer- and/or stakeholder-centric perspective.
Conducts analyses to respond to business and/or research questions, interprets analytical outputs, and provides responses in an appropriate format, and partners to build on others' analyses and frameworks.
Adheres to data privacy and security requirements, responsible and ethical data handling and AI practices, and classification and governance rules and regulations.
Learns to build working relationships within and across teams to ensure alignment in data sourcing, methodologies, models, analytical tools and processes, and business priorities to deliver key insights and results.
Under guidance, shares and simplifies relevant findings and insights to tell stories of analyses through one or more means including dashboards, reports, data visualizations, interactive self-service platforms, slides, internal forums, ad-hoc inquiries, and/or talking points.

Requirements

Required/minimum qualifications

• Currently Pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field.
• Must have at least 1 semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship.
• Candidate must be enrolled in a full time bachelor's, masters, MBA, or PhD program in area relevant for the roleduring the academic term immediately before their internship.