Company: PAVAIN

Position: Research Intern (Fall/Winter 2024)

Location: Hybrid in Long Beach, CA or Los Angeles, CA (with one international team trip; must have a valid passport)

Hours per week: 20-30 hours per week

Minimum Requirements to Successfully Apply (**READ CAREFULLY**):

Must submit a RESUME and COVER LETTER or Video (any length). If not included here on LinkedIn please email to info@PAVAIN.org.
Come hungry, helpful, and honest.

School Requirement:

None; Students and career transitioners encouraged to apply!

Responsibilities:

Support founding team on a wide variety of research projects related to investments and the performing and visual art markets, respectively.
Compile, synthesize and analyze research collected from secondary sources.
Quality control measures for survey links, platform feedback, and presentation documents.
Co-manage all aspects of customer discovery, understanding the full member journey as well as synthesizing pain points and opportunities short- and long-term.
Assist with report creation (for both qualitative and quantitative research projects), including analysis, data entry, and chart/table creation in Excel/PPT.
Run fundamental quantitative analyses and be very comfortable working with numbers.
Co-manage companywide AirTable and maintain as well as improve platform in collaboration with fellow team members.
Proactively identify and qualify new prospects from various constituencies, including new/existing investors, advisors (including but not limited to agencies and lawyers) and artists.
Utilize PAVAIN’s existing database (AirTable or other system(s)) including constituencies, trends, research materials, etc. to develop strategies for different outreach and membership priorities such as member acquisition, newsletter/knowledge sharing, as well as platform growth.
Utilize public information on investors including known assets; demonstrated investments; philanthropic, financial, and business data; and giving patterns to evaluate a member’s capacity, inclination, and target investment range.
Using public information on artists including known works; reputation; investor activity and interest; marketability; available ratings and index standing; and collector buying patterns to evaluate a member’s propensity, interest, and marketability for being invested in.
Streamline research and member management policies and procedures, including organizing and prioritizing the new/existing prospect pool.
Lead prospect meetings with Founder and recommend portfolio assignments and solicitation strategies.
Conduct quarterly prospect reviews Founder to evaluate the current prospect pool and ensure ongoing cultivation.
Prepare detailed research briefings for Founder for the purposes of member cultivation and solicitation, including for newsletters, events, and platform features that connect artists, advisors, and investors.
Review various publications to obtain timely information about prospects, performing arts, visual arts, philanthropy, and business trends, and prepare current news alerts to be parsed by Founder and included in newsletter and articles.
Identify new revenue generating opportunities by keeping abreast of current news, industry trends, and member adoption.
Maintain AirTable (or other system(s)) database records and monitor data hygiene and cybersecurity of prospect/member management, including duplicate records, deceased members, and merges.
Maintain founder and PAVAIN partners in AirTable (or other system(s)), including founder and committee lists, partner membership and tenure, and project support.
Collaborate with Founder to manage research budget, including electronic resources, publications, and memberships.
Seek out professional development opportunities and network with peers to maintain awareness of new resources and best practices in database research and arts investment.
Assist with additional projects, as needed!

Basic Qualifications - No need to have 100%:

Research background and/or track record of success with analyses.
Willingness to learn, explore outside of comfort zone, and contribute meaningfully to the team.
Research experience in any of the following fields: learning analytics / educational data mining, education, psychology, communications, arts administration, cognitive science, or related field.
Fundamental statistics knowledge and skills
Familiarity with basic SQL (e.g., JOINs, aggregate functions)
Be familiar with investor/donor/artist databases (preferably AirTable, Blackbaud, and/or Salesforce) and possess excellent data entry and data mining skills.
Have strong administrative skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office, as well as the ability to quickly learn and suggest appropriate new workplace applications.
Strong data visualization skills (ggplot2)
Knowledge of modern web technologies, Wix website development, and AirTable integrations to support canvas rendering, security, asynchrony and performance optimization.
Experience with software and/or platforms that facilitate both algorithmic as well as manual match-making (think Hinge or Bumble meets AngelList) and willingness to educate the team on processes, uses, and opportunities in support of investor, advisor, and artist networking.
Exposure to generative AI models, including text-to-image and large language models.
Experience in Research design, design systems or close collaboration with design teams.
Preparing, analyzing and monitoring a large array of global economic and financial data relevant to our investment processes and membership base; with a focus on metrics to assess trends, sustainability and risks to economic and financial stability and inform resource sharing.
Performing portfolio analytics such as performance attribution and risk analysis.
Conducting in-depth fundamental research on countries and macro themes to support potential and current arts investment trends of our members (and beyond.).
Maintaining in-house macroeconomic monitors as well as art indices, historic and value-based valuations, interest rates, and currency models.
Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
Background or general interest in art and investment research.
Core values including impact, learning, artistry, integrity, empowerment, diversity, passion, and selflessness.

Benefits:

Competitive hourly wage and relocation stipend (yet to be set; minimum hourly = $40/hr. and minimum stipend = $555)
Hands-on world class experience in the arts and entertainment investment space
Shadow time and regular lunches with Founder and networking with clients/advisors/investors
College credit and all related forms completion by Founder
Unlimited recommendations (mailed and digital)
Continued PAVAIN alumni connection via LinkedIn group
Weekly lunch on Fridays (...your choice on remote days)

About PAVAIN:

PAVAIN stands for Performing And Visual Arts Investment Network. Our central mission is to open up (i.e. democratize) investment opportunities into the arts, regardless of the type of art. Our platform, along with our growing community, will serve as evangelists to the growing power of relationships and the true meaning of investment of time, money, and insights as well as finding a meaningful fit between producer/collector/investor and the artist as well as the advisor (i.e. private wealth or art advisement).

The art market is said to be $1.7 trillion dollars and that is just visual art... PAVAIN seeks to further legitimize and synthesize opportunities to quantify the visual and performing arts markets as well as bolster new and exciting opportunities in the digital art space with NFTs and generative art. Coming aboard as an intern means rooting yourself in what it means to be both a left-brain and right-brain thinker in all respects. It also means you will be thoroughly immersed in arts and investment worlds with opportunities to contribute to this network at the ground floor and make meaningful quantifiable waves.

Notice:

We are an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and champion diversity in all walks, runs, and chairs. Please do not hesitate to show off your differences as well as similarities in all aspects of your resume and cover letter.

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