Position: Editorial Intern
Food52, a fast-growing, James Beard Award-winning online food community and crowd-sourced and curated recipe hub, is currently interviewing full- and part-time unpaid interns to work in a small team of editors, executives, and developers in its New York City headquarters. This will involve plenty of writing and editing, good but not necessarily healthy food, unruly behind-the-scenes website functions, a deepening relationship with your laptop, and coffee. We're currently accepting applications for fall interns.
Responsibilities:
- Working in a small, fast-moving editorial team to produce clever, useful online food content (sometimes on the fly, sometimes days or weeks ahead)
- Conceiving and writing short original blog posts: recipe roundups and menu plans, technique how-tos, features on goings-on in the greater online food community
- Producing and editing repackaged content for partner sites, in their various content management systems
- Managing current social media accounts and seeking out new ones
- Helping out at weekly photo and video shoots including: shopping, food prep, lunch runs, dishes, taste-testing, general morale-building
- Community management with a smile: corresponding and trouble-shooting with members via email, responding actively to comments and cooking questions on Food52 and the Food52 Hotline
- Helping with office admin work, such as filing and mailing
- Working with developers to document bugs and suggest improvements to the site
- Supporting editorial and executive staff
- Helping to produce and edit Food52's cookbooks and apps
Requirements:
- Writing experience (published clips and/or personal blog)
- Experience with content management systems a major plus (any blogging counts!)
- Familiar with the Food52 editorial voice and aesthetic
- Cooking experience a plus (some combination of culinary school or other professional cooking experience)
- Loves food, appreciates the importance of home cooking and cooking with the seasons
- Meticulous editor, perfectionist, obsessive attention to detail, maddened by typos and broken links, delighted by finding and fixing them
- Cheerful under pressure
- Excellent communication skills
- A+ multi-tasker and juggler of responsibilities big and small
- Interested in and engaged with social media like Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest
- Loves problem-solving and collaborating to drive Food52 forward
- Thinks big picture but pitches in on the nitty gritty of running a small company (dishes, shopping, administrative support)
- Comfortable with the realities of working for a startup: being on call on evenings and weekends, and working long hours
- Has a good sense of humor (i.e. think we're funny)
For more about Food52, see our about page.
To Apply
Please send resume, writing samples, and references to jobs@food52.com with "Editorial Intern" in the subject line.
