Events Intern

The big picture: Axios is a rapidly growing digital media and tech company dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We offer a mix of original and smartly narrated coverage of media trends, tech, business, and other major topics in the most efficient and shareable ways using our original Smart Brevity format.

At Axios — the Greek word for worthy — we provide only content worthy of readers’ time, attention, and trust.

Why you matter: You believe that the truth matters now more than ever and the idea of joining a high-growth media company excites you! You’re passionate about the evolution of the media and tech industries and want to be part of a team that’s shaping the future. You place value in working with smart, ambitious colleagues in an environment where you will learn invaluable skills to carry with you.

The details: Our Events Intern will support our Events team, which is made up of extremely smart and hard-working events professionals who plan and execute events nearly every week. These events are sponsored by Axios client partners, and the events team understands clients’ expectations are exceeded and that they receive exceptional end products through our partnerships. You’ll learn what it’s like to plan events end-to-end, build invitation lists, develop creative assets, support technical aspects of our events, support marketing and communications campaigns to attract and engage attendees and support large annual events. 

About you:

• You exhibit strong attention to detail
• You possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• You have a wildly collaborative spirit 
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit and a strong interest in Axios and our unique style 

Program details:

• 10-week paid program beginning in June
• Mentorship and Lunch & Learns with Axios executives
• We are seeking interns for our Communications, Talent Acquisition, Events, Editorial Illustration, Editorial, Brand Design, Data Engineering, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Learning & Development and Production teams

If this sounds exciting, apply today with your resume and complete the application question fields. 

Pay rate for this role is $17/hr and is dependent on numerous factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, and skills. This range does not include other compensation benefits.

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