Job Description

Pocketed is hiring a Social Media & Digital Marketing Intern to join our rapidly growing software start-up.

Pocketed helps businesses across North America easily access billions of dollars in free money (aka grants and tax credits). We're a female-founded, female-led company with a bold vision: to give entrepreneurs the power to create and build businesses without financial barriers. Today, more than 8,500 startups, small businesses, and side hustles use Pocketed to get the capital they need to grow.

Our Social Media & Digital Marketing Intern role is ideal for a student who wants an immersive startup experience and the opportunity to support all marketing functions of our high-growth start-up! If you’re able to pivot easily between projects and are curious about exploring various stages of a user’s journey, we’d love to hear from you!

Your Responsibilities

We're a startup, which means that the boundaries of your role are likely to blur. Depending on your interests, strengths, and the needs of Pocketed, you'll work on some or all projects below.

Not sure if you’re qualified for everything on this list? To date, Pocketed has hired over a dozen interns, and we are committed to supporting your learning and development. If you’re confident you can contribute to some of these projects, please apply!

Social Media Content Creation: Creating, writing, editing, and sharing social content that builds meaningful B2B audience connections and achieves results. This includes writing compelling captions and creating on-brand graphics!
Social Media Management: Audience engagement is key! Scheduling social media content through Buffer and engaging with our digital audience through social media, collaborations, and partnerships.
Content Creation: Writing blog content, including conducting blog interviews and case studies, and assisting peers with publishing blogs that follow SEO best practices. Based on what you hear from our users, you could help maintain FAQ resources and craft compelling emails - anything and everything to support our customers!
Customer Support + Success: Building and nurturing relationships with the businesses that use Pocketed through online chat and email communication. No better way to learn what our users need from us!
Learning & Development: Staying fresh is critical! Researching our market, customers, and competitors to identify opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses to inform our growth strategy. This could include listening to podcasts, attending webinars, reading articles and more!

Your Qualifications

You’re a current post-secondary student (returning to school in Summer 2023 or Fall 2023), ideally from a business, marketing, communications, or related program.
You’re a master at creating inclusive and engaging social media content for diverse platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, and Google+.
You have strong graphic design skills using a platform like Canva or Adobe InDesign.
You give a damn about creating impact and delivering experiences that delight, so you want to be part of (and contribute to) a performance-oriented culture. You understand that culture is only as strong as the sum of its parts, and you’re all in on contributing positively.
You have a basic understanding of various analytics software, such as Facebook Insights, Google Analytics, and Twitter Analytics to drive engagement and performance.
You have experience with marketing technology, including all the usual suspects: content management systems (Later, Buffer, Hootsuite), word processor applications (Microsoft Word, Pages, Google Docs), and image/video editing software (Lightroom, Canva, iMovie).
You’re radically independent, resourceful, and a driven problem-solver (<-- critical to succeed at  Pocketed).
Strong attention to detail & highly task oriented, you take ownership for your work and get the job done right!

Requirement
As we help our customers get grant funding, we do the same for our business! This role will be funded by the Student Work Placement Program, and only candidates who meet all of the eligibility criteria below may be considered:

Either a Canadian Citizen, permanent resident or a protected person defined by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
Must be a currently enrolled student in an accredited Canadian post-secondary institution.
The student cannot be an international student with a work permit.

Your Benefits

As our Growth Coordinator you’ll work closely with a tight-knit founding team to rapidly design and build new generation solutions to real-world problems. You’ll have the full support of our marketing team as well as access to the entire tech team.

More specifically, your benefits will include:

Competitive compensation to showcase how much we value your hard work and contributions ($18-$22 per hour).
Remote work-from-home option to allow you to do work in a way that is optimal for you.
Full-time position, working 40 hours per week from January to May 2023.
Weekly check-ins and virtual social events to foster a collaborative, inclusive work culture.
Growth opportunities to learn, optimize your skills and begin achieving your career goals.

About Pocketed: Help businesses across North America grow & thrive! 

A lack of financial resources is one of the primary reasons businesses fail. With billions of dollars in ‘free money’ (grants & tax credits) available every year to small businesses and start-ups, how is this still possible? The system is broken – and that’s why we built Pocketed. Pocketed leverages intelligent algorithms to help businesses get easily matched with eligible funding programs in minutes. We help our customers secure even more funding through our managed solution and marketplace. Learn more at hellopocketed.io.

We are a female-founded, female-led company with a strong team. Together, we're in pursuit of a powerful purpose: eliminating financial barriers for businesses. We're looking for impact-focused people to build with us

In the past 12 months, we oversubscribed our alpha launch by more than 500%, achieved a 95/100 Net Promoter Score from alpha users, launched a US pilot, won the 2022 Forum Pitch Competition and e@UBC People's Choice award, named a 2021 “Emerging Rocket (ICT)” & BC Tech TIC Startup Company of the Year, graduated from CDL, featured in the Globe and Mail, Techcouver, BetaKit, and more, and have helped more than 8,500 companies apply for over $80M in government funding. We recently closed our oversubscribed seed financing round and are scaling fast across North America.

If this sounds like what you’re looking for in your next  opportunity, we want to hear from you!
Apply with your resume and cover letter TODAY!

Pocketed is an Equal Opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example: she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

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