Marketing Intern, Wattpad
Social Media Team
$18 - $19 an hour
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Platform for sharing original writing
Job no longer available
Platform for sharing original writing
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$18 - $19 an hour
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Wattpad's mission is to create a world where everyone's story can be heard, and anyone can belong.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a social media aficionado who would love nothing more than talk about stories and their writers all day
- Coupled with a love of pop culture, entertainment, and reading and writing, you will help us ensure Wattpad is talked about and loved the world over
- A highly engaged Wattpadder! Passion for the platform, Wattpad stories, and their creators is a must
- Educational or working experience in marketing/communications
- Strong organizational or project management skills
- You can demonstrate an understanding of social media channels and have a point of view on which brands are doing amazing work in social
- You are comfortable with data and can glean learning and insights from numbers -- you can calculate clickthrough rates, conversion rates and engagement rates with ease
- An eagerness to take initiative and an ability to juggle multiple priorities with ease
- Ability to work from Toronto HQ occasionally (1-2 times/month) for content creation is preferred, but not required
What the job involves
- We are currently looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Marketing Intern to join our Social Media & Influencer Marketing team within the Marketing department
- Reporting to the Social Media Manager, you will play a key role supporting our evergreen content and campaigns across a global community of millions across our social media channels
- This is a great opportunity to collaborate with various marketing functions, while contributing to growing our online presence and channel engagement
- Assist in executing social media marketing initiatives across Meta, TikTok, X, and Pinterest using social, marketing and product tools (e.g. Sprinklr, Asana, AppsFlyer, Canva, and native social media platforms)
- Work closely with the Creative team and content creators to brief in creative concepts
- Help coordinate social media content and campaigns using project management tools, including working with stakeholders to ensure they input, review, and approve marketing tactics on time
- Use social listening to monitor and identify opportunities for community engagement to support channel growth and brand awareness
- Work closely with Brand Safety to ensure community concerns and issues raised on social media channels are escalated appropriately
- Stay up-to-day on social trends, tools, best practices and have a point of view on emerging new social channels in order to surface insights and learnings to help optimize content and engagement
Our take
Content is king and Wattpad has managed to create a platform that aggregates the most loved original writing content in the world, turning the traditional publishing industry on its head.
Where authors used to submit drafts to dozens of publishing houses in the hope of getting some eyeballs on their work, Wattpad opened up the process to millions of young authors by letting them easily submit their work, and fostering a community around their software that offers feedback and help.
The e-reading platform is now looking to double down on its strategy of taking its user-generated fiction and turning it into successful intellectual property upon which original series and movies can be based. However a significant challenge for Wattpad is in producing original, marketable content from its platform given the popularity of fanfiction, stories which are based on existing intellectual property.
Another challenge for Wattpad is the current economic conditions which have affected much of the tech sector and are not sparing digital publishing. Having shelved bold plans for the future it also laid off 15% of its workforce in March 2023. Having realigned for its current business needs however, it is now well placed to weather the current market downturn.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2018
$51m
LATE VC
Apr 2014
$46m
SERIES C
Total funding: $117.8m
Company benefits
- Full health benefits
- Career development & Mentorship opportunities
- RRSP matching
- Generous parental Leave top-up
- Flexible hours
- Regular hackathons
- Healthy snacks & drinks
- Your choice of hardware
- Monthly work-from-home allowance
- Beautiful offices in Toronto and Halifax
- Easy access to transit
Company values
- UserObsessed- We make every decision by stepping into our users’ shoes
- Inclusive - We help everyone belong
- Trailblazer - We push ourselves on how we think and how we act
- BuildItForward - We’re always building a foundation for tomorrow
- PlayToWin - We’re driven to lead the pack
- Resourceful -We make the most of every minute and every dollar
- TeamWork - We do what’s best for the greater good
Company HQ
St. Lawrence, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Allen lau
(CEO)Lau attended University of Toronto where he earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering followed by a master's in the same subject. Thereafter he briefly worked as a software engineer for Brightspark before founding his first notable company, Tira Wireless, a mobile development startup. He is also the co-founder of Two Small Fish Ventures, a fund that invests in Toronto and Waterloo-based early-stage internet companies with strong network effects.
Ivan Yuen
(CSO)Prior to Wattpad, Ivan co-founded FeedM8 and served as the company’s CTO. Before that he was one of the first employees of Tira Wireless, where he helped grow the technical team and developed new and emerging wireless technologies. Ivan graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Computer Engineering and also earned an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.
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