Looking for an opportunity for hands-on experience as an editor? Then our editorial internship may be for you! This internship runs for 4 months and pays $14.00 per hour. The Editorial Intern must be able to work up to 29 hours a week in a hybrid and flexible workplace.
About This Role
The Editorial Intern is primarily responsible for assisting the content team quality control and streamlining our contractor processes. In addition to these tasks, the role oversees other administrative duties related to content production.
Responsibilities:
- QC live content: The intern will utilize their grammar and style skills to ensure that the edited and live content published on the site is free of typos, adheres to LT style, and is correctly formatted, among other quality control measures.
- Light project management duties: The intern will assist the Project Manager in setting up tickets in the project management system.
- Assist with vendor projects: The intern will assist the Project Manager in coordinating content projects with content vendors.
- Execute audits: The intern will assist the Senior Content Editor in executing content audits, such as statistical updates, content updates, pronoun updates and style updates, etc.
Qualifications:
- Strong grammar skills
- Meticulous eye for detail
- Strong critical thinking skills
- Adaptive to change
- Impeccable organizational skills
- Deadline-oriented mindset
- Willingness to take risks, iterate and learn along the way
- Ability to build positive relationships with others – a team player
- Previous internship or work experience in a professional environment
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Word and Google Docs/Sheets
- Culture champion
- An individual who exemplifies our core values and cultural values, like honesty, trust, having a good work ethic and pursuit of continuous self-improvement. These are demonstrated through expertise professionalism, autonomy and mentorship when approaching the responsibilities assigned below and in interactions with others.
- A patient and strategic thinker with the keen ability to prioritize and focus.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Video editing
At Launch That, we invest in ourselves and our community. For the fourth year in a row, we were recognized as a Top Workplace by the Orlando Sentinel! Launch That was founded in 2007 as an entrepreneurial digital marketing startup that's grown from two founders in a garage to almost 100 digital, tech, creative and content professionals in the heart of downtown Orlando.
Launch That covers 100% of the premium cost for employee-only medical coverage for all full-time benefit eligible team members! We also offer 100% employer paid short- and long-term disability insurance, competitive compensation, paid time off, 20 days of paid parental leave after 90 days, a 401k retirement plan, paid volunteer opportunities and more!
We work hard and appreciate work/life balance, so all of our team members enjoy a company-wide Holiday Break from December 24th - January 1st each year!
Launch That embraces a hybrid flexible workplace environment which consists of work-from-home opportunities, with 3 recommended in-office days (M, W, TH) to maximize team collaboration and 2 WFH days (T, F). We believe in offering ongoing flexibility when it comes to the things that happen in life, like childcare, doctor appointments, class schedules, and the joys of homeownership!
Why Work @ Launch That?
- Our Mission and Vision: Launch That is an established leader in the world of digital marketing! Our vision is to build the most valuable digital brands. We believe we will achieve this by connecting people to extraordinary resources.
- Our Team: Launch That's core talent is exceptional. Many team members have 10+ years of experience in digital industries across extremely competitive business lines. We believe that our work starts and ends with our team — and it's that focus that makes us one of the best places to work, not just in Orlando, but in the country.
- Our Culture: We’re a close-knit, interactive company with a passion to build something special. We offer a vibrant and fun culture that focuses on relationships and collaboration. Throughout the year, we host unique, fun events where we celebrate our successes. We donate our time and talents to helping our community at large.
- Our Flexible Workplace: Our flexible workplace model consists of work-from-home opportunities with in-office days to maximize team collaboration. We believe in offering ongoing flexibility when it comes to the things that happen in life, like childcare, doctor appointments and the joys of homeownership!
- Our Office: Our state-of-the-art workplace, which we designed and own ourselves, offers a unique break room with complimentary Xbox, arcade games, hot beverages on demand, fountain drinks, and a robust snack bar!
If this sounds interesting to you, please submit your resume!
Top Skills
What We Do
Launch That was founded in 2007 as a digital marketing startup. Now we’re more than 80 strong after establishing ourselves as a digital leader. We’re privately held and ambitious. We create online brands and businesses, and we market them. (We also serve as a marketing arm for some partners.) Our leaders seek growth, opportunities and constant challenges.
We’re in the digital problem-solving business, and that takes smart people across a variety of skillsets: organic and paid marketing, front end and back end web developers, social media marketers, content writers and editors, and UX/UI and web designers. (We also have HR, IT, finance and admin departments.)
Our core values are Passion, Agility, Community and Excellence.
