Reddit Ecosystem Mapping: Identify, track, and audit relevant subreddits, communities, and highly active discussion threads related to our industry, brand, and core product offerings.
Landscape & Sentiment Analysis: Analyze the current state of Reddit community conversations, synthesizing organic user sentiment, emerging trends, pain points, and advocacy patterns.
Strategic Recommendations: Translate research findings into actionable recommendations and frameworks for corporate communications, brand marketing, and customer advocacy teams regarding safe, authentic, and high-value platform participation.
Ad-Hoc Communications Research: As capacity allows, support the broader team with secondary research projects spanning general corporate communications, media monitoring, competitor brand tracking, and executive positioning analysis.
What You Will Gain:
Direct ownership over a high-visibility, executive-level research project that will shape the company's long-term digital community playbook.
Mentorship from seasoned communications, public relations, and brand strategy professionals.
Practical experience applying internet sociology and social listening metrics to real-world corporate strategy.
Opportunities to network and present your final research deliverables to cross-functional leadership teams.
Academic Background: Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, Sociology, Digital Media, Market Research, or a related field.
Platform Awareness: Familiarity with Reddit's unique structure, culture, and governance.
Analytical Mindset: Strong qualitative and quantitative research skills, with the ability to distill vast amounts of unstructured forum data and conversational threads into clear, high-level insights.
Excellent Communication: Outstanding written and visual communication skills, capable of building polished research slide decks, briefs, and executive summaries.
The expected hourly pay for this position is $24.00/hour - $26.00/hour .
Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Our Values underpin everything we do.
Customer Centric: Our mission is focused on improving learning outcomes; we do this by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
Passion for Learning: We are committed to our own learning and growth internally. And we support education and learning around the globe.
Integrity: Integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin-it is the core of our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
Action & Ownership: We have a bias for action. We act like owners. We are willing to change even when it's hard.
One Team: We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each others' successes.
Global Mindset: We consider different perspectives and celebrate diversity. We are one team. The work we do has an impact on the world.
Seeing Beyond the Job Ad
At Turnitin, we recognize it's unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you're willing to learn and unleash your potential a
Benefits
Remote work optionsEquity / stock options
Additional Information
We are seeking a dynamic, analytical, and social media savvy Summer Intern to join our Corporate Communications and Brand Strategy team for a full-time, 10-12-week internship. This role is uniquely tailored for a researcher who is ready to dig in on the nuances of digital subcultures, internet community dynamics, and platform-specific governance-specifically on Reddit.
The successful candidate will spearhead an in-depth research initiative mapping out relevant Reddit communities, analyzing corporate engagement best practices, and evaluating how our brand, competitors, and industry are perceived within the Reddit ecosystem.
Position Type: Full-Time, Internship
Duration: 10-12 Weeks (Summer)
Location: Remote
Salary: $24-$26/hour
Turnitinllc · New York, NY