We started with a simple idea—that everyone should be able to accept credit cards—and we’ve been rethinking buying and selling ever since.

For sellers, we’re creating one cohesive service to run your entire business, from a register in your pocket to analytics on your laptop. For buyers, we’re making it faster to order from the businesses you love and more fun to pay your friends back.

Buying and selling sound like simple things—and they should be. Somewhere along the way, they got complicated. We’re working hard to make commerce easy for everyone.

Our global communications team is made up of resourceful, quick-witted, entrepreneurial, and intellectually-curious people. We communicate to the world Square’s mission to make commerce easy and tell stories about how our products empower people to start, run, and grow their business. 

As a Communications Intern, you will help our team communicate the simple, smart, and innovative experiences Square creates for its community of sellers. Square is a design and story-driven company – you will ensure Square’s voice and brand is maintained across a variety of communication channels.

We’re looking for a rising junior/senior or graduate student who can hustle under pressure and change course quickly. If you’re an intellectually curious self-starter, passionate and skilled in GIF usage, and a fan of the Oxford comma, we’re looking for you.

You will:

• Work across teams to find and tell real-world customer stories to effectively show multiple audiences, from partners to media, how are products are making a difference for small businesses
• Develop written materials, including briefing docs, communications plans, and FAQs, blog posts, and social media posts
• Follow industry news, develop and maintain media contacts, track coverage, and help handle media inquiries
• Collaborate with product, engineering, sales, and other teams to ensure consistent Square messaging across the company

• Rising college junior/senior or graduate student
• Able to work in our San Francisco office for 12 consecutive weeks during Summer 2016
• Skilled at working on multiple projects at once. Proven ability to work well under pressure and adapt quickly to change
• Excellent writing, editing, and communications skills
• You’re a self-starter, who instinctively and consistently creates personal and professional stretch goals and meets them
• Curiosity and ability to think creatively, flexibility, and a sense of humor

At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.