Communications Intern - job 5 of 6

About the role:

We’re hiring a full-time summer semester Communications Intern to join our team! You’ll work closely with our Communications team to build awareness and reputation for the Jerry brand, primarily through media relations and data journalism. If you thrive in fast-paced remote work environments and desire to experience working at a startup, this may be the role for you. This is a full-time, paid, remote internship, starting in May 2023.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting day-to-day media relations outreach efforts across consumer, tech, business and trade media

• Brainstorming and developing targeted media pitches

• Conducting media research, developing media audits and targeted media lists

• Monitoring for general news and competitor news and flagging opportunities/threats

• Trendspotting societal and cultural news on the daily

• Monitoring, tracking and reporting results

• Potential to assist in social media research

• Potential to assist in social media video content creation for TikTok and Instagram

• Research ideas for data journalism studies

• Researching and obtaining data for analyzing/referencing in data journalism articles

• Developing drafts of data journalism studies with mentorship and support from our data journalist

Ideal Candidate:

• You’re obsessed with news and following pop culture, societal conversation, and trends (you’re a news junkie!)

• You are a journalism major or minor, or have previous media relations or communications internship experience or similar

• You have superior writing and editing skills with the ability to – you can take complex, nuanced topics and develop creative, compelling, clear, concise and crisp pitches, stories and headlines

• You’re a multitasker who can juggle multiple projects and deadlines, manage competing projects and urgent deliverables without missing a beat, and a pillar of composure under pressure

• You thrive in fast-paced environments and are interested in gaining in-house, start-up experience

• You are scrappy, resourceful and proactively uncover solutions to keep moving projects forward

Jerry is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

Jerry is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@getjerry.com

About Jerry:

Jerry is building the first Super App to save car owners time and money on all their car expenses. Drivers deserve better. That’s why we’re committed to making shopping for insurance, financing, maintenance, repairs, parking and more just a few clicks, texts, or swipes away.

Jerry is taking processes that haven’t substantively changed in decades and reimagining and redesigning them. Using artificial intelligence, machine learning and bots, Jerry eliminates the need for long forms and phone calls while providing personalized services for all car-owners’ needs.

Today, Jerry is the #1 rated and most downloaded app in its category and the fastest way to compare and buy car insurance. We have more than 2M customers and we are just getting started. Join our team of curious and passionate people who love tackling real-world problems and be a part of building a revolutionary product that’s disrupting a massive market.

Jerry was founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs and has raised more than $130 million in financing.