BuzzFeed.com Canada Junior Writer (Project-Based)

About BuzzFeed, Inc.

BuzzFeed, Inc. (Ticker: BZFD) is home to the best of the internet. Across food, news, pop culture, and commerce, our brands drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, buy, and obsess over next. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed, Inc. is committed to improving it: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our audience to live better lives. We'll continue to recruit the best founders and creators to join us in this mission, with more additions like HuffPost to come.

Business Area: Content
Job Category: International Content
Hourly: 25.00 per hour CAD
Union Status: Non-Union 

BuzzFeed Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We reserve the ability to adjust the final compensation for this role based on the final candidate's experience, skillset, certifications, and geography.

The Role

We’re looking for a Junior Writer who creates original content for BuzzFeed's O&O and/or distributed platforms. This candidate should be comfortable taking on daily assignments and pitching story ideas related to the current celeb news cycle, as well as have the foresight to create evergreen content that serves our readers. We're looking for a real pop culture junkie who's not afraid to poke the hive with some hot takes!

Writers should have a keen eye for finding new and interesting stories happening both on and offline as well as a grasp of the nuanced cultural conversations happening all over the internet. We're looking for people who are fascinated by social media, human psychology, and trends of all kinds. On any given day, you might be researching behind-the-scenes facts and Easter eggs about a trending piece of pop culture, testing out cooking hacks, or making a TikTok explaining a viral news topic.

Junior writers will work with the local Canadian BuzzFeed team — some of the smartest, weirdest, most creative, and most viral creators out there. This is the perfect opportunity for someone interested in pursuing a career in digital media. You won't be running errands for senior staff, or transcribing someone else's interviews, you will be pitching ideas, taking assignments, brainstorming, collaborating, and writing dozens of stories that will be published to BuzzFeed.com and promoted across our social channels. You will also create (or collaborate with team members to create) vertical video (TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts).

This position is paid (starting at $25/hour CAD). This opportunity allows candidates to work fully remotely across Canada, but there will also be opportunities to work from our Toronto office.

You Have

We're looking for culture and internet obsessives with a passion for the things people are sharing, liking, recommending and talking about. You should also have:

• A positive, curious, playful disposition
• A genuine, wide-eyed love of lifestyle and internet trends in all their forms
• An interest in social platforms and what drives people to share content
• Curiosity and excitement about AI and social platforms (TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, Tumblr, etc.)

In addition, you should demonstrate the following:

• Some experience creating content for the internet (it doesn't have to be formal — anything from published articles, to creative BlueSky threads, to personal TikTok accounts)
• Ability to quickly identify social trends and topics
• Ability to handle critical feedback and improve from it
• Eagerness to collaborate
• Ability to interpret key audience data points relating to your work and use it to adapt and evolve your approach moving forward
• Experience with video editing tools a plus

• Instead of a formal cover letter, please include a few short paragraphs about what topics you'd want to write about for BuzzFeed, and what interests you about the content BuzzFeed makes (articles, videos, TikToks).
• Create a BuzzFeed.com/community profile, and create 1-2 posts that reflect your voice and interests. When you submit your posts, include "This is for the Canada Junior Writer." in the description. You'll be asked to provide the links to your posts when you complete the application. SO, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR COMMUNITY POSTS PRIOR TO COMPLETING THIS APPLICATION! We encourage you to check our Trending page to see examples of posts that reflect what we're looking for, and to take note of the variety of topics and formats.
• Provide links to your public social media accounts.
• Attach a resume — keep it to one page!

Life at BuzzFeed, Inc.

We celebrate inclusion and are committed to equal opportunity employment. We are  proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.

You can expect:

• A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning @ BuzzFeed team, our Employee Resource Groups, and more