Social Media Intern Etsy

Etsy is looking for a savvy and passionate intern to help Laura, our Social Media Captain, keep that huge conversation in the sky interesting and lively. That person is you ? if you can use social media to rally people around creative inspiration, and you play well with others (both internal Etsy departments and our community). This is a paid internship lasting 6 months. You must be able to work from our Brooklyn offices.

About the Communications Team

Our team of editors, producers, community managers and public relations specialists amplify the story of Etsy ? the company, the marketplace and the movement. We create original media to inspire our audience, work with journalists interested in telling our story and interact directly with our community through social media channels.

About the Job

Content Curation ? digging for gold on Etsy, Twitter, Facebook and blogs, within
the framework of our editorial calendar, our focus on creative inspiration and member advocacy
Platform Management ? RT from our Twitter feed, gather Favorites for reporting,
pick up on community trends, Comment/Like on FB
Outreach to new friends ? identify super-users, curate Twitter lists, Facebook groups
Reporting ? stay on top of followers/fans, sentiment, trends, highlights, and other metrics, and share insights with the rest of the Etsy team

About You

Sense of humor ? you can make people giggle, smile, react
Kind heart ? you empathize with people online
Organizational and multi-tasking superpowers
Tech-savvyness ? you pick up on new things and know every social media trick before Mashable does
Passion ? you have a supreme love for Etsy, DIY, entrepreneurship, new media / technology and people
Superior communication skills ? "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." (Albert Einstein)
Knack for marketing and PR ? you have creative ideas for how to connect with our members and bring in new people
Voice ? yours is authentic and real, even in 140 characters or less
Love of math ? you have a knack for recognizing patterns in stats
Flexible ? you can hop online at a moment's notice to deal with any situation

About Us

Etsy is the marketplace we make together. We enable people anywhere to easily build and directly exchange with independent, creative businesses. Our mission is to craft the new economy where self-sufficiency, durability, and well-being are the key measures of success.

Our Values:
? We are a mindful, transparent, and humane business.
? We plan and build for the long term.
? We value craftsmanship in all we make.
? We believe fun should be part of everything we do.
? We keep it real, always.

Our growing community includes 12 million members in over 150 countries. The 800,000 shops on Etsy collectively contain around 11 million unique products, and in 2010 our community sold over $300 million of goods. Etsy operates transparently and you can check in to see how the Etsy community is doing in our monthly weather reports. We're well-funded with a proven business model and established revenue to help us continue growing and serving our community.

Location:	325 Gold Street Sixth Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States