Newsroom Summer Intern

Requisition Number: 153858

Position Title: Intern General

External Description:

In this role on the EA Newsroom team, you will create content to engage with players every day across web, social, and editorial. This is a rotational program that is designed to help you learn the ropes of being part of a fast-paced Newsroom while contributing to overarching campaigns.

 

The EA Newsroom is built to support the needs of our players and the gaming community across owned and social channels. This role reports into a Social and Editorial Lead.

 

You will:

• Participate in a rotational program that includes social media marketing, editorial, and web.
• Complete and present an end-of-internship project that contributes to the overall goals of the EA Newsroom team as well as the greater business

 

Responsibilities:

• Social
  • Schedule and publish social content
  • Contribute to social content briefs
  • Pull social data from various social media platforms
• Editorial
  • Attend weekly franchise and EA Brand Newsroom meetings
  • Contribute to editorial briefs
  • Work with cross-functional stakeholders to gather approvals for editorial content
• Web
  • Attend weekly franchise web syncs
  • Contribute to web briefs
  • Actively seek out opportunities to optimize ea.com websites

 

A successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Enthusiasm for trying new things, taking risks, and a willingness to learn from successes and failures
• An ability to create strong, playful, informative copy
• Passion to develop an expert knowledge of the games we make
• Curiosity about our players and the reasons why they play our games
• Interest in pop culture, entertainment, music, and the intersection of games and culture
• Experience with real-time social and web analytics and tools
• Excellent attention to detail
• Experience with content creation tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, Giphy, etc.)
• Familiarity with basic graphic design and typography
• Must be an enrolled student during summer of 2019
• Must submit the following writing scenario with their application:
• • You’ve been tasked with marketing two different titles today! Each team has asked you for three tweets for the week that embodies the tone and feel of their title.

  • Please draft the social posts you would submit for review.

    1. Write three tweets for The Sims Twitter
    2. Write three tweets for the Anthem Twitter 

About the EA Newsroom:

Our vision is to build the biggest and best global community in gaming. We are:

 

• Advocates for our players
• The biggest fans of our games
• Experts at exhibiting knowledge of the game we make
• Content creators driven by qualitative and quantitative data

 

This means we create with intention! We believe that “the name of the game is the game,” so all the work we do is created to engage our players with the games they love to play every day.

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Community / Marketing Title: Newsroom Summer Intern

Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 91

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.