Product Intern
Technical.ly
Technical.ly is a news organization that connects and challenges a community of technologists and entrepreneurs who are invested in where they live. We believe innovation can come from anyone anywhere — to ensure all communities thrive.
We’re seeking a product intern to assist our product team in the development and implementation of various projects within our newsroom to help grow and engage our audience of more than 100,000 professionals.
This is a paid, remote position of 15 hours per week from September to December 2024. Preference will be given to candidates located in Technical.ly’s current home markets: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, DC and Delaware. Compensation will be $15/hr (or legally required minimum, if higher).
To apply, send an email to audience product manager McKenzie Morgan at mckenzie@technical.ly by Sept. 9 with your resume attached and the subject line “Technical.ly product intern application.” In the body of your email, include a cover letter explaining why you are the right fit for this internship. Also include any references you may have (a professor or previous supervisor) along with their contact info.
Details
The intern will work closely with the audience product manager to assist our team in executing various products throughout their time here.
- Day to day:
- Assist in the project management and organization of various projects across the product team and newsroom
- Analyzing and organizing audience data
- Creating documentation for various projects
- Big projects:
- Assist with designs and user testing phases during project sprints
- SEO Copywriting
- The intern will pick one independent project to work on throughout the course of the internship. The project will allow them to put their newly learned project management skills to use by leading a project through its entirety.
Skills you can expect to learn
- Product and project management skills
- Data analysis and cleaning
- The integration of innovation and product in journalism
- How to use innovative tools and products in a newsroom
Qualifications
- Current student or recent graduate in journalism, business or product management related fields
- Interest in immersing yourself in the product or project management process at a small but nimble news organization
- A strong sense of organization
- Ability to work independently as well as with a team
- WordPress experience is a plus
- Design experience is a plus
- Data cleaning and analysis experience is a plus
- SEO experience is a plus
In the mid 2000s, three young journalists noticed a sweeping shift in the Mid-Atlantic’s local economies. Tech work was the fastest growing segment of emerging creative economies, but reliable coverage of that change was yet another story lost to newsroom disruption.
Together they founded Technically Media in 2009 — an independent digital media company that uses journalism to grow and serve local communities of tech professionals.
Over a decade later, community remains at the heart of Technically Media’s mission. It has become a trusted voice in the region, not only because of its specialized coverage, but for helping people build valuable connections and navigate their careers through economic change.
Technically Media serves its communities in three essential ways. Through its editorial content on Technical.ly, which features daily reporting in Delaware, Baltimore, D.C., Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia (where it also publishes social impact site Generocity), it delivers rich storytelling about changes in the local economy, and the people and organizations making an impact. Its events convene a wide swath of tech professionals, entrepreneurs and innovators, enabling them to expand their networks and explore new opportunities. Its employer branding platform offers hiring companies the tools and services to showcase their culture and recruit new talent among an engaged readership of tech professionals.
Technically Media’s unique business model and active community has made it a small but mighty force in the local news landscape. Diverse in background and perspective, each member of the 20-person team is self-driven and single-minded in their pursuit to serve the community. Bootstrapping its own growth, the Technically Media team spends much of its time listening — to sources, readers, clients, prospects and hundreds of others who are changing how work happens in their communities. Team members report that their team thrives on collaboration of thought and equality of contribution from each team member. Ideas are shared freely, answers questioned regularly, and every day is a chance to try something new.
