Deadline: Ongoing
Salary: Competitive
The Yahoo Marketing amp; Customer Experience team is dedicated to inspiring and delighting users, advertisers, partners and fellow Yahoos around the world through experiences that champion the Yahoo brand, products and content. We inform, develop and execute campaigns, events, partnerships and premium support for our audiences, in close collaboration with our business partners and in support of Yahoo's business strategy.
A Little About Us:
This Internship is based in the UK in the EMEA Consumer Marketing and Partnerships team, working as part of the wider Yahoo International Marketing Team. The team is dedicated to inspiring and delighting users, advertisers, partners and fellow Yahoos around the world through experiences that champion the Yahoo brand, products and content. In the EMEA Consumer Marketing and Partnerships team, we create, develop and execute campaigns, events, partnerships and support of our audience, brand and revenue goals, in close collaboration with our business partners and in support of Yahoo's business strategy.
A Lot About You:
The Marketing Internship is intended for rising graduate talent with competitive experience. As an intern, you will be immersed in our business, develop important relationships, and build essential skills that will advance your career.
This Internship provides an ideal opportunity for you to gain an understanding of marketing functions at a high profile technology and media industry leader. This Internship attracts and develops highly skilled, impassioned and driven individuals, and gives them the opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the business and an introduction to marketing.
At the end of the Internship, candidates will be evaluated for the most appropriate position on the Marketing team to launch a successful career at Yahoo following their experience as an Intern.
Your Day:
- Spearhead marketing initiatives that have visibility throughout the company
- Be involved with strategic and tactical marketing execution with senior professionals
- Complete a final project and present your work to senior leaders within the organisation
- Help invent marketing campaign for our products that reach millions of people around the world each day
- Create big-picture marketing strategies, as well as the on-the-ground tactics for bringing those strategies to life
- Create sales presentations and experiences
- Analyse and make recommendations on our business strategy
- Weave data from multiple sources into compelling and insightful stories that describe how our products are doing
- Discover how to make a marketing campaign really sing to a target audience, e.g., university students, film fans, etc.
- Support logistics planning to produce big events
- Work with product and design teams to explore fun, creative, and surprising ways to express our brand
- Support social listening initiatives to identify opportunities, gather insights, create content and deepen community engagement
- Track and measure programs to understand effectiveness in terms of new users, reputation, social media reach and impact
You Must Have:
- University degree. Preferred subjects include: English, Sociology, Political Science, History, Anthropology, Computer Science, Economics, Psychology, Digital Media, Film/Animation/Video, Graphic Design, Art, Visual Culture, Illustration, Literacy Arts.
- Strong academic performance, professional drive, and examples of passion for technology, brands and media.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including writing, that enable effective teamwork.
- The successful candidate is a quick thinker and a fast learner who can work independently and efficiently on tight deadlines, while still maintaining an eye for detail. The candidate should be a motivated and reliable individual with demonstrated analytical capabilities, an inherent ability to solve problems, strong technical proficiency, and an eagerness and ability to work across a number of projects and teams. Excellent communication, time management, and interpersonal skills are critical.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: must have working knowledge of PowerPoint, Word, Excel (formulas, pivot tables a plus). Keynote proficiency a plus
- Ability to manage multiple projects in an environment that is fast-paced and highly dynamic
- Excellent analytical skills, a focus on results, creative problem-solving capabilities, and the ability to articulate complex ideas
Internship Length: 6 months with the possibility for successful candidates to be extended for further 6 months.
