Company Description
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
This is a 12-week full-time summer internship based in Sunnyvale or Mountain View.
At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to the office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.
The LinkedIn Design team is looking for a skilled writer with an interest in product design to join us for a paid summer writing internship.
As a Content Design intern, you’ll apply your writing skills to one of our many digital products. You’ll make sure every button, every notification, and every error message is thoughtful, human, and inclusive. You’ll learn how tech companies really work, and get to influence real product decisions.
Why join us? We’re a team of talented, thoughtful, and sincere professionals. We care about the work we do and each other. We’re committed to advancing LinkedIn’s vision: creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.
If that sounds exciting to you, we’d love to have you join us. It’s an amazing opportunity to get hands-on experience in a flourishing discipline that blends liberal arts with technology. It’s going to be a fun, word-filled summer!
Responsibilities
- Learn about writing for digital products
- Write using LinkedIn’s voice and tone (personable, inclusive, encouraging, and helpful)
- Design content for web and mobile, including microcopy, interaction flows, error messages, notifications, and in-product messaging
- Contribute to our content writing guidelines
- Develop tools, processes, talks, and tips to show the value of content design
- Document and share processes, workflow, feedback history, and decisions
- Present your work at design reviews
- Receive feedback from content designers, designers, product managers, and others
Qualifications
Application Requirements
Please answer the following question (about 250 words):
- Tell us about a time you wrote something with a specific audience in mind. What did you consider? What did you change?
Basic Qualifications
- Currently pursuing BA/BS, MA/MS or PhD
- Currently enrolled in a college or university program and returning to school the term following your summer internship
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong writing skills
- Interest in product design
- Experience writing for different audiences
- A strong point of view about writing
- A love of presenting and storytelling
- Empathy, a sense of humor, and appreciation for the em dash
Suggested Skills:
- Writing and editing
- Audience awareness
- Storytelling
- Collaboration
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $55 to $65 USD per hour. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: EEO Statement_2020 - Signed.pdf.
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If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
- Having interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service dog
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
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