Outbound Content Specialist | Paid Fall Internship

Other agencies might call it an internship program, but we offer and expect more.

Our Specialist program was crafted to be the leading program for college students and recent grads to build a future career in marketing or design. We see it as the last internship you’ll ever do.

Our Specialists work 25 – 35 hours per week (part or full-time with a daily hour lunch break) collaborating with our full-time employees, working for both our clients and Online Optimism itself. In return, we make sure they receive valuable, real-world experience, hourly pay, and the opportunity to team up with the best and brightest in the city.

You should apply for our Outbound Content Specialist position if you want:

• to build your SEO, content writing, or email marketing portfolio.
• real, hands-on experience working on live client accounts, not practice projects.
• to learn how a link goes from a cold pitch to a published citation.
• to see your writing go out to real subscriber lists and measure how it performed.

You have:

• strong writing skills, especially the kind that make a stranger want to reply.
• comfort with research and the patience to dig for the right contact.
• organizational skills and attention to detail, since outreach lives and dies by follow-up.
• an interest in SEO, content writing, or email marketing, and a willingness to learn the parts you don’t know yet.
• reliability and consistency across multiple client accounts at once.
   

You're excited by:

• pitching a range of industries, from national brands to local New Orleans businesses.
• getting a “yes” from a publication and watching the link go live.
• writing newsletters people actually open, then figuring out why they did.
• owning a measurable piece of client work you can point to later.

What Are Some Features of Our Specialist Program?

Real Work, Real Experience

You’ll spend your time here working on real assignments and projects, being involved in actual client work, and teaming up with full-time Optimists as well as handling tasks independently. As one of our Specialists, you’ll leave us with a complete portfolio of work as well as a killer answer when you’re asked to talk about a time you proved yourself in your next interview.

Cold, Hard Cash

We provide $17/hour pay to all of our Specialists. For those still in school, we’re also happy to do everything we can to get you college credit. In addition, we'll send you to networking events and educational lunches, ticket included.

Launch Your Career

A majority of our full-time team started at Online Optimism as Specialists, and many of our Specialists go on to work at some of the top digital marketing agencies around.

An Optimistic Culture

Our company aims to keep our team happy and facilitate work any way we can, which is why we provide you:

• A casual dress code
• Remote and in-office happy hours
• DEI learning through webinars and courses
• Wellness challenges
• Affinity groups
• Book club
• Networking opportunities

To be considered you must apply through our website, onlineoptimism.com.