Digital Media Internship
- Part-time
Company Description
Star Tribune is the Upper Midwest’s largest integrated media company, defining and reaching audiences in Minnesota and around the world.
With the region’s most-visited website, one of the largest-circulation newspapers in the country, a range of digital and home-delivered advertising solutions, and numerous mobile and tablet apps, we touch more consumers than any other Minnesota media brand.
Job Description
The Star Tribune is looking for a bright, passionate self-starter to join our Digital Product team as a Digital Media Intern. This role will take the lead on key strategic organizational initiatives while gaining valuable experience in the rapidly-evolving digital media industry. An ideal candidate has a passion for consumer behavior and analytics as well as a desire to help influence the future direction of the Star Tribune.
Responsibilities
• Assist in the development and lead the execution of initiatives to increase acquisition, engagement, and loyalty across Star Tribune’s digital products.
• Plan, execute and analyze A/B and Multivariate testing initiatives to challenge assumptions and increase performance across the organization.
• Analyze complex data sets and develop insights to gain a better understanding of the Star Tribune user.
• Develop recommendations and deliver presentations to leaders within the organization.
• Assist in other business functions as needed to gain greater insight into the business and customer experience.
Qualifications
• Currently enrolled in or recently completed a 4-year degree in business, marketing, economics, statistics, or communications.
• Excellent logic and reasoning skills to generate insights from complex data sets.
• Experience researching and analyzing performance in a business context.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and data visualization tools, especially Excel.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with web analytics tools such as Omniture, Google Analytics, and Chartbeat.
• Familiarity with digital A/B testing tools (Optimizely, Adobe Test & Target, Site Spect, etc.) a plus.
• Familiarity with statistical, business intelligence, or predictive analytics software (R, SAS, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Minitab, etc.) a plus.
Posting Date 7/10/15
EOE
Additional Information
- You must fill out our online application, which you can do by clicking on the link below.
- You can upload your cover letter, resume and clips using our online tool, which accepts a number of file formats (PDF, JPEG, FIG, DOC, DOCX, TXT and BMP).
- Our system will let you upload up to six files in addition to your cover letter and resume.
- If you have more than six files to submit beyond your resume and cover letter, you should combine some of them.
- None of your files can be larger than 2 MB.
- You can complete your online application in stages by selecting the link marked “Continue later” at the bottom of each page. That will prompt the system to email you a case-sensitive username and password that you can use to sign in and finish at a later time.
- We won’t see your application until you click submit. Once you take that step, you won’t be able to alter your application or attach additional documents to it.
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