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Funds & Industry Research Intern

Position Code: PEKFN04

Organisation Description:

This Beijing and Paris based organisation is a full-service Ecosystem financial advisory & strategic consulting firm, with a specific focus on “Happiness Industries” such as travel, hospitality, leisure & wellness industry.

Based in China and France, it also helps renowned overseas brands in these segments to enter China, as well as key Chinese players to go global.

Role: Funds & Industry Research Intern

Internship Description:

Possible tasks and projects include:

The host organisation are looking for an intern who can;

  • Assist analyse of funds industry
  • Assist analyse happiness & goodness industries
  • Deep research on some topics
  • Other duties as assigned

Activities are not limited to the above, and candidates are encouraged to discuss further their own abilities and interests in an interview to identify synergies.

N.B. tasks and projects may vary depending on current priorities. Specific projects and responsibilities will be discussed during an interview.

Internship Requirements:

  • Finance background
  • Strong passion for research, ideally research geek
  • Enthusiasm in the investment industry
  • Have creative thinking and self-motivated
  • Strong sense of responsibility and careful attention to detail
  • Chinese and English fluently

Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!

Legal Intern

Position Code: PEKLA02

Organisation Description:

This Law Firm is a full-service law firm providing commercial legal services on an international basis.

Their highly experienced lawyers have substantive skills and serve a broad base of practice areas including insurance & reinsurance, intellectual property, antitrust & competition, private equity, dispute resolution, mergers & acquisitions, capital markets, banking & finance, energy and natural resources and real estate.

They were established by a group of practitioners with exceptionally broad experience and great team-working aptitude.

Role: Legal Intern

Internship Description:

Possible tasks and projects include:

  • Assist lawyers and legal consultants with legal research
  • Preparing legal documents and/or documents for seminars and events
  • Proofreading legal documents, contracts, company papers and publications in English
  • Assist lawyers in drafting documents and correspondence
  • Analyse data and records, as well as legal codes and articles, briefs and statutes
  • Additional tasks that may be required by lawyers and partners

N.B. tasks and projects may vary depending on current priorities. Specific projects and responsibilities will be discussed during an interview.

Internship Requirements:

  • Full professional proficiency in English; Chinese is a plus
  • Master’s degree in Law, knowledge of International commercial law is recommended, Chinese law is a plus
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook
  • Familiar with legal documents and legal databases
  • Attention to detail and accuracy
  • Teamwork
  • Ability to work independently, manage large workloads, and keep deadlines

Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!

Metaverse Fashion Internship

Position Code: PEKBS15

Organisation Description:

This company is dedicated to building a bridge between fashion and technology. Their mission is to empower the fashion industry with affordable cutting edge technology. They have had 10 years of experience in integrating technology into fashion events, products, and building hardware/software solutions for their clients. They are an American company with offices in USA and China. They have developed mobile fashion apps, interactive retail solutions, and fashion tech maker kits, and produce large fashion tech installations to experience what the future of fashion looks like through their Fashion & Tech Events. Their most recent activities have been creating 162 gesture-controlled smart gloves for Intel’s cooperation with CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala 2017, developing fashion tech maker kits for fashion brands to create smart garments and accessories, along developing products with fashion brands based on their e-textile LED Ribbon.

This company is building a fashion Metaverse and VR game. They are looking for a bright creative talent who is interested in exploring fashion in the Metaverse to create designs of the future. Robotic dresses, animated models, and catwalks in the sky are to be showcased in our digital fashion world. Now is the time to understand the future of digital fashion and the online world

Students will work closely with programmers and understand how to co-create virtual showrooms, augmented reality, and multiplayer gaming.

Role:

Metaverse Fashion Internship

Internship Description:

Possible tasks and projects include:

  • Work with the lead designer and CEO to create a 10 piece fashion collection for the VR game.
  • Work with the AltspaceVR team to correct any texture problems in existing garments.
  • Plan and create garments for the Metaverse fashion show.
  • Work with the AR team to bring the fashion designs into Snapchat, Instagram, and augmented reality.
  • Work with and place garments on avatars.

N.B. tasks and projects may vary depending on current priorities. Specific projects and responsibilities will be discussed during an interview.

Internship Requirements:

  • Skills needed: intermediate cloe3d, marvellous designer, blender, photoshop, pattern making.
  • Additional skills (or willing to learn): mixamo, import to unity.

Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!

Chinese Social Media, PR, and Communications Intern

Position Code: PEKBS11

Organisation Description:

This company is dedicated to building a bridge between fashion and technology. Their mission is to empower the fashion industry with affordable cutting edge technology. They have had 10 years of experience in integrating technology into fashion events, products, and building hardware/software solutions for their clients. They are an American company with offices in USA and China. They have developed mobile fashion apps, interactive retail solutions, fashion tech maker kits, and produce large fashion tech installations to experience what the future of fashion looks like through their Fashion & Tech Events. Their most recent activities have been creating 162 gesture-controlled smart gloves for Intel’s cooperation with CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala 2017, developing fashion tech maker kits for fashion brands to create smart garments and accessories, along developing products with fashion brands based on their e-textile LED Ribbon.

This company is building a fashion Metaverse and VR game. They are looking for a bright creative talent who is interested to explore fashion in the Metaverse to create designs of the future. Robotic dresses, animated models, catwalks in the sky to be showcased in our digital fashion world. Now is the time to understand the future of digital fashion and the online world

Students will work closely with programmers and understand how to co-create virtual showrooms, augmented reality, multiplayer gaming.

Role:

Chinese Social Media, PR, and Communications Intern

Internship Description:

Have you ever wanted to understand Chinese social media, interview top people in fashion and tech, and understand how to promote western brands in China?

In this internship, you’ll be learning how to master the art of communication and presence in China.

  • Learn how to manage a company Weibo, WeChat, blog.
  • Work on the company Podcast.
  • Interview people from tech and fashion.

N.B. tasks and projects may vary depending on current priorities. Specific projects and responsibilities will be discussed during an interview.

Internship Requirements:

  • Chinese mandarin and English reading, writing, communication skills are key.

Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!

PR and Communications Intern

Position Code: PEKBS12

Organisation Description:

This company is dedicated to building a bridge between fashion and technology. Their mission is to empower the fashion industry with affordable cutting edge technology. They have had 10 years of experience in integrating technology into fashion events, products, and building hardware/software solutions for their clients. They are an American company with offices in USA and China. They have developed mobile fashion apps, interactive retail solutions, fashion tech maker kits, and produce large fashion tech installations to experience what the future of fashion looks like through their Fashion & Tech Events. Their most recent activities have been creating 162 gesture-controlled smart gloves for Intel’s cooperation with CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala 2017, developing fashion tech maker kits for fashion brands to create smart garments and accessories, along developing products with fashion brands based on their e-textile LED Ribbon.

This company is building a fashion Metaverse and VR game. They are looking for a bright creative talent who is interested to explore fashion in the Metaverse to create designs of the future. Robotic dresses, animated models, catwalks in the sky to be showcased in our digital fashion world. Now is the time to understand the future of digital fashion and the online world

Students will work closely with programmers and understand how to co-create virtual showrooms, augmented reality, multiplayer gaming.

Role:

PR and Communications Intern

Internship Description:

Possible tasks and projects include:

  • Research news and information about fashion technology.
  • Create an Avatar podcast and learn to use our avatar news crĂ©ation tool (training provided).
  • Create a news podcast using our artificial intelligence text to speech tool.
  • Create a  weekly newsletter.
  • Promote a podcast, newsletter across all social media by using your creativity together with pr team to design the communication strategy.
  • Work closely with pr team to approach media.
  • Learn to Communicate with media about the latest developments.

N.B. tasks and projects may vary depending on current priorities. Specific projects and responsibilities will be discussed during an interview.

Internship Requirements:

  • English major ideally.
  • Communications & media writing skills.
  • Understanding of social media and social media scheduling tools.
  • Understanding of press release writing.
  • Good essay writing skills.
  • Creative writing skills.
  • Excellent spelling and grammar skills.
  • Willingness to learn new programs such as working with artificial intelligence.
  • Good understanding of what makes a podcast interesting.
  • Excellent news research skills.

Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!

3D VR Designer

Position Code: PEKIT04

Company Introduction:

This company is dedicated to building a bridge between fashion and technology. Their mission is to empower the fashion industry with affordable cutting edge technology. They have had 10 years of experience in integrating technology into fashion events, products, and building hardware/software solutions for their clients. They are an American company with offices in USA and China. They have developed mobile fashion apps, interactive retail solutions, fashion tech maker kits, and produce large fashion tech installations to experience what the future of fashion looks like through their Fashion & Tech Events. Their most recent activities have been creating 162 gesture-controlled smart gloves for Intel’s cooperation with CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala 2017, developing fashion tech maker kits for fashion brands to create smart garments and accessories, along developing products with fashion brands based on their e-textile LED Ribbon.

Role: 3D VR Designer

Internship Description:

Objectives of this Role

  • Take ownership of features and components of AltspaceVR world and lead the product design and code elements for version 2.
  • Collaborate with other members of the team to deliver large and complex features on time and to a high standard
  • Be part of the development process and contribute improvements and suggestions, driving the quality of the code throughout the entire production cycle
  • Mentor other developers in the team and help maintain code, product, and process quality
  • Create Art, Design and Objects to place in the world.
  • Bring meaningful contributions to the product

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

  • Work together with the team on Tues, Wed, Thurs live in real-time
  • Weekly reports submitted for project tracking
  • Team meetings in Asia Pacific time zone
  • Plan, design and implement with the CEO, high-quality game features on existing VR game
  • Transform design specification into functional game assets
  • Establish an effective strategy and development pipeline
  • Quickly create and iterate on prototypes showcasing new designs and interaction patterns
  • Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
  • Ensure the best performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications and games
  • Identify process and application bottlenecks and implement solutions in a timely manner

Requirements:

  • 3-6 months experience with Unity 3D/Content Development
  • Strong 3D math skills
  • Strong C# object-oriented programming and scripting language skills along with the ability to familiarize yourself with Typescript (the language of MRE’s by AltspaceVR)
  • Experience working with game assets (meshes, animations, materials etc)
  • Experience profiling and optimizing the game and render performance (GPU and CPU)
  • Experience working on a physics-based game project, source control systems such as Git in a multi-developer team environment.
  • Understanding UX design process and experience working with UX design team and/or development team

Preferred Qualifications

  • Unity training program certification
  • Experience using Blender, Shaders, Mixamo, AltspaceVR, VR, AFRAME.io
  • Own or have access to a VR headset
  • Ability to solve problems, research problems and solutions, discuss problems with team members
  • Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Unity VR Game Programme Intern

Position Code: PEKIT05

Organisation Description:

This company is dedicated to building a bridge between fashion and technology. Its mission is to empower the fashion industry with affordable cutting edge technology. They have had 10 years of experience in integrating technology into fashion events, products, and building hardware/software solutions for their clients. They are an American company with offices in USA and China. They have developed mobile fashion apps, interactive retail solutions, fashion tech maker kits, and produce large fashion tech installations to experience what the future of fashion looks like through their Fashion & Tech Events. Their most recent activities have been creating 162 gesture-controlled smart gloves for Intel’s cooperation with CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala 2017, developing fashion tech maker kits for fashion brands to create smart garments and accessories, along developing products with fashion brands based on their e-textile LED Ribbon.

Role:

Unity VR Game Programme Intern

Internship Description:

Objectives of this Role:

  • Take ownership of features and components of the VR game lifecycle and lead the product design and code elements for version 2 of the game.
  • Collaborate with other members of the team to deliver large and complex features on time and to a high standard.
  • Be part of the development process and contribute improvements and suggestions, driving the quality of the code throughout the entire production cycle.
  • Mentor other developers in the team and help maintain code, product, and process quality.
  • Partner with Art, Design and Production teams to ensure schedules and goals meet business and project needs.
  • Conduct code reviews and be part of the hiring process for future colleagues.
  • Bring meaningful contributions to their product and the entire team.

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:

  • Work together with the team on Tues, Wed, Thurs live in real-time.
  • Weekly reports submitted for project tracking.
  • Team meetings in the Asia Pacific time zone.
  • Plan, design and implement with the CEO, high-quality game features on their existing  VR game.
  • Transform design specifications into functional game assets.
  • Establish an effective strategy and development pipeline.
  • Quickly create and iterate on prototypes showcasing new designs and interaction patterns.
  • Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
  • Ensure the best performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications and games.
  • Identify process and application bottlenecks and implement solutions in a timely manner.

N.B. tasks and projects may vary depending on current priorities. Specific projects and responsibilities will be discussed during an interview.

Internship Requirements:

  • 3-6 months experience with Unity 3D/Content Development.
  • Strong 3D math skills.
  • Strong C# object-oriented programming and scripting language skills.
  • Experience working with game assets (meshes, animations, materials etc).
  • Experience profiling and optimizing the game and render performance (GPU and CPU).
  • Experience working on a physics-based game project, source control systems such as Git in a multi-developer team environment.
  • Understanding UX design process and experience working with UX design team and/or development team.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Unity training program certification.
  • Experience using Blender, Shaders, Mixamo, AltspaceVR, VR, AFRAME.io.
  • Own or have access to a VR headset.
  • Ability to solve problems, research problems and solutions, discuss problems with team members.
  • Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

Don’t exactly match these requirements? If you have the enthusiasm and want to learn – then speak to Pagoda about this position and we’ll see what is possible!

UI-UX Design/Front-End Web Development for an Educational-Social Networking Platform

Internship code: PEKIT03

Company Description:

This organisation is a tech startup aiming to empower the robotics community as well as make robotics accessible to everyone in the modern world.

They have an educational and social networking platform, this revolutionizes the way robotics is taught. By making it easy for all people to learn how to make robots, use them in their daily lives, and connect with others, they are building the most innovative and creative community of influential technology pioneers.

The companies online, engaging and task-based educational material is specially designed for students ages 12 to 18 years old within schools, as well as individual users up to 25 years old who want to take the courses remotely. This way, beginner to advanced users can gain knowledge about how to assemble and program robots that can be used in real-life situations.

Cooperating within teams and competing against each other for every course’s special challenge, their users can learn about robotics in a fun and interactive way. To further develop their skills, they can post their robotic videos under their profiles, connect with other users, form teams and join competitions. Learning from experts in the field and peers in other educational institutions has never been that easy and enjoyable!

Internship Position:

UI-UX Design/Front-End Web Development Internship

Internship Description

This company is looking for a UI-UX Design or Front-End Development Intern to join their platform development team and work on improving their educational and social media platform for robotics courses. The platform is based on modern web technologies such as NodeJS, Express, and VueJS.

Responsibilities can include but aren’t limited to:

  • Design interactive and user-friendly interfaces for engaging learning and collaborative UX.
  • Convert mockups into usable web interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to serve Popular Robotics’ course content to our audience of schools and students.
  • Plan, organize, and complete work within agile sprints.
  • Participate in design discussions, and design features and solutions that are accessible.

Internship Requirements:

  • Experience with building web interfaces using Sketch, Photoshop or any other design tool
  • Experience in responsive web design with HTML5 & CSS3 (experience with JavaScript frameworks such as VueJS is a plus)

Bonus Skills

  • Experience with designing UI-UX for educational/social networking online platforms
  • Knowledge of version control with GitHub
  • Fluency in English & Chinese language

Educational Course Content Development Intern for Online Robotics Courses

Internship Code: PEKED01

Company Description:

This organisation is a tech startup aiming to empower the robotics community as well as make robotics accessible to everyone in the modern world.

They have an educational and social networking platform, this revolutionizes the way robotics is taught. By making it easy for all people to learn how to make robots, use them in their daily lives, and connect with others, they are building the most innovative and creative community of influential technology pioneers.

The companies online, engaging and task-based educational material is specially designed for students ages 12 to 18 years old within schools, as well as individual users up to 25 years old who want to take the courses remotely. This way, beginner to advanced users can gain knowledge about how to assemble and program robots that can be used in real-life situations.

Cooperating within teams and competing against each other for every course’s special challenge, their users can learn about robotics in a fun and interactive way. To further develop their skills, they can post their robotic videos under their profiles, connect with other users, form teams and join competitions. Learning from experts in the field and peers in other educational institutions has never been that easy and enjoyable!

Internship Position:

Educational Course Content Development Internship

Internship Description:

This company is looking for a Course Content Development Intern to join their course development team and create/review robotics courses content for teaching high school students 12-18yo and young robotic enthusiasts 18-25yo. The content will be in electronic format for use on their online platform.

Responsibilities can include but aren’t limited to:

  • Develop new course content and improve/organize earlier versions for our online platform’s robotics courses, involving theory, assembly, programming and challenges.
  • Collaborate with other educators and robotics/web platform engineers to best develop an interactive online content presentation that engages our students and promotes our business.
  • Communicate effectively on progress and participate constructively in team meetings.

Internship Requirements:

  • Some experience in course content creation and organization
  • Basic illustration/presentation skills
  • Fluency in English language

Bonus Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in education
  • Familiarity with STEM/MAKER education
  • Familiarity with international pedagogical standards, e.g. ISTE
  • Good level of Chinese language

Back-End Web Development for an Educational-Social Networking Platform

Internship Code: PEKIT02

Company Description:

This organisation is a tech startup aiming to empower the robotics community as well as make robotics accessible to everyone in the modern world.

They have an educational and social networking platform, this revolutionizes the way robotics is taught. By making it easy for all people to learn how to make robots, use them in their daily lives, and connect with others, they are building the most innovative and creative community of influential technology pioneers.

The companies online, engaging and task-based educational material is specially designed for students ages 12 to 18 years old within schools, as well as individual users up to 25 years old who want to take the courses remotely. This way, beginner to advanced users can gain knowledge about how to assemble and program robots that can be used in real-life situations.

Cooperating within teams and competing against each other for every course’s special challenge, their users can learn about robotics in a fun and interactive way. To further develop their skills, they can post their robotic videos under their profiles, connect with other users, form teams and join competitions. Learning from experts in the field and peers in other educational institutions has never been that easy and enjoyable!

Internship Position:

Back-End Web Development Internship

Internship Description:

This company is looking for a Back-End Development Intern to join their platform development team and work on improving their educational and social media platform for robotics courses. The platform is based on modern web technologies such as NodeJS, Express, and VueJS.

Responsibilities can include but aren’t limited to:

  • Develop, test, and integrate APIs and back-end services to serve Popular Robotics’ course content to our audience of schools and students.
  • Plan, organize, and complete work within agile sprints.
  • Communicate effectively on progress and participate constructively in team meetings.
  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and develop features and solutions that scale.

Internship Requirements:

  • Experience in building API/RESTful services with Node.js, Express.js, and MySQL
  • Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
  • Experience with version control with GitHub

Bonus Skills

  • Experience with building educational/social networking online platforms
  • Familiarity with the AWS stack or other cloud solutions.
  • Fluency in English & Chinese language