Summer Intern - Product
Fluent is a leading performance marketing company with an expertise in creating meaningful connections between brands and consumers. Leveraging first-party data, we drive intelligent growth strategies that deliver superior outcomes for our partners. As a fast-growing organization with big ideas for transforming digital marketing, we are constantly seeking new ways to learn, connect, innovate, and succeed as a team. Our corporate headquarters are situated in the heart of Lower Manhattan and boast stellar views of the Hudson River, along with an in-house barista, game room, and fully-stocked refrigerator.
We’re looking for our 2020 Summer Intern candidates! This year will be our 10th year hosting a robust class of interns. As a Summer Intern at Fluent, you will gain a hands-on experience in digital marketing working with a diverse and passionate team. You will work within a department as a tightly knit team, with a manager whose role is to guide you throughout the summer and ensure that your time is spent making an impact for Fluent.
Our paid internship program starts on Monday, June 1st and runs 10 weeks through Thursday, August 6th. Interns will work alongside Fluent employees in the office Monday – Thursday from 9 am to 6 pm with an hour lunch every day.
Your responsibilities:
- Troubleshoot different software to identify bugs and improvements
- Document test cases and come up with a regular execution plan to ensure product stability
- Create the best practices and training program for new products to ensure a smooth roll out of features to our users
- Work with the UI/UX team to create high fidelity prototyps of new features
- Speak with our users to understand pain points and document for roadmap planning
- Identify competitors and similar products in the market to identify potential opportunities for Fluent to expand into
- Come up with product UX wireframes to support features and improvements to Fluent's platform
- Provide updates to different people and groups on issues and project progress
- Participate and be asked to contribute ideation on new projects and the priority as they relate to the overall business
- Clearly write product requirements for features and software products that can be understood and executed by the development team
We think you will be a successful candidate if you:
- Proficient in Microsoft 365 and Office applications (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint)
- Have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with poise and good humor
- Bring a strong work ethic, along with stellar communication skills (verbal, written and listening), a positive attitude, enthusiasm, professionalism, ambition, collaboration, curiosity and rigor in all that you do!
Requirements
- Ability to consistently meet deadlines and work independently
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in Microsoft Office – Word, PowerPoint, and Excel a must
- Communicates effectively through written and verbal methods
- Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
Benefits
At Fluent, we like what we do and we like who we do it with. Our team is a tight-knit crew of go-getters; we love to celebrate our successes! In addition to two fully-stocked kitchens, catered breakfast and lunch, and free workout classes on site, our office manager keeps the calendar full of activity-filled events. When we’re not eating, working out, or planning parties, Fluent folks can be found participating in recreational sports leagues, networking with She Runs It, and bonding across teams during quarterly outings to baseball games, fancy dinners, and pizza-making classes.
Fluent participates in the E-Verify Program. As a participating employer, Fluent, LLC will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Fluent, LLC follows all federal regulations including those set forth by The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC). The OSC enforces the anti-discrimination provision (§ 274B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. § 1324b.