Communications Intern (Spring Semester, Part Time)

We’d love to hear from you if you like:

• Start-up energy - come join one of LinkedIn’s Top 50 Tech Start-ups

• Learning and solving interesting problems in a huge market ($2T market size)

• Working closely with serial entrepreneurs and strong leaders who have scaled companies like Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba, Robinhood, Sofi, Microsoft, etc.

• Meritocracy - we promote based on performance, not tenure

About the internship:

We’re hiring a part-time spring semester Communications Intern to join our team! You’ll work closely with our Communications team to build awareness and reputation for the Jerry brand, primarily through media relations and data journalism. If you thrive in fast-paced remote work environments and desire to experience working at a start-up, this may be the role for you. This is a part-time, paid, remote internship, starting in January 2024 or earliest available.

How you will make an impact:

• Supporting day-to-day media relations outreach efforts across consumer, tech, business and trade media

• Monitoring, tracking and reporting results

• Daily trendspotting societal and cultural news

• Brainstorming and developing targeted media pitches

• Conducting media research, developing media audits and targeted media lists

• Monitoring for general news and competitor news, flagging opportunities/threats

• Assisting in social media research and video script writing

• Potential to assist in social media video content creation for TikTok, Instagram and Threads

• Supporting with internal communications

• Research ideas for data journalism studies

• Developing data journalism study content with mentorship and support from our data journalist

Ideal Candidate: 

• You’re obsessed with news and following pop culture, societal conversation, and trends (you’re a news junkie!)

• You are a journalism major or minor, or have previous media relations or communications internship experience or similar

• You have superior writing and editing skills with the ability to – you can take complex, nuanced topics and develop creative, compelling, clear, concise and crisp pitches, stories and headlines

• You’re a multitasker who can juggle multiple projects and deadlines, manage competing projects and urgent deliverables without missing a beat, and a pillar of composure under pressure

• You thrive in fast-paced environments and are interested in gaining in-house, start-up experience

• You are scrappy, resourceful and proactively uncover solutions to keep moving projects forward

Jerry is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

Jerry is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@getjerry.com

About Jerry:

Jerry is America’s first and only AllCar™ app. We are redefining and radically improving how people manage owning a car, one of their most expensive and time-consuming assets. 

Backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, Jerry simplifies and automates owning and maintaining a car while providing personalized services for all car owners' needs. We spend every day innovating and improving our AI-powered app to provide the best possible experience for our customers. From car insurance and financing to maintenance and safety, Jerry does it all.

We are the #1 rated and most downloaded app in our category with a 4.7 star rating in the App Store. We have more than 4 million customers — and we’re just getting started. 

Jerry was founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs and has raised more than $242 million in financing.

Join our team and work with passionate, curious and egoless people who love solving real-world problems. Help us build a revolutionary product that’s disrupting a massive market.