Langua.ly’s PR and communications intern will work for an international language learning startup at their headquarters in Tel Aviv’s Old North neighborhood. The intern will assist the marketing, communications and e-learning directors in tasks ranging from curriculum development to media monitoring and outreach.
The PR and communications role is extremely versatile. In addition to managing the company’s social media profiles, running PR campaigns and dealing with SEO, the intern will contribute to marketing, communications and e-learning strategies. The intern may also be asked to do research on how to reach a certain market, create new experiences and market them, create a strategic plan for specific aspects of our products and more.
The intern’s tasks and responsibilities will also include, but are not limited to:
-Understanding the Lingua.ly learning content index and improving its quality
-Developing new messaging and marketing material for global users
-Translating and honing communications outreach for target media
-Initiating and running social media sites and profiles
The ideal candidate is a talented writer, creative thinker, independent worker, and above all, a motivated learner who shares the team’s passion for language learning.
Qualifications:
-Native English speaker; proficiency in other languages a plus
-A keen interest in language learning
-A desire to learn, engage and grow
-Strong written and oral communication skills
-Excellent organization skills as well as self-motivation and discipline
-Experience using digital apps for language learning a plus
-Familiarity with education and/or technology-focused media and journals a plus
-Knowledge of social media marketing across platforms (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest)
-A sense of humor!
Lingua.ly is a highly charged and exciting startup environment where ideas of all kinds are welcome and innovation is expected. The intern will not only be given a chance to take ownership of long-term projects, but is invited to participate in strategy and planning discussions. S/he will gain insight into the science behind language learning and mobile product design and development. Invaluable hands-on training will be provided for a range of cutting-edge mobile app and media measurement and monitoring tools and there will be ample opportunities for developing writing skills.
Lingua.ly is at once an education company, founded by academics from Cambridge, and Stanford, and a disruptive tech-startup that has developed the first solution to learning languages via digital immersion. The patent-pending technology behind our platform takes an innovative approach to quantifying language learning through exposure and online interaction. We promote mastery of a foreign language via a personalized, adaptive and fun learning experience derived from real world content, paving the way to fluency by harnessing the natural browsing behavior of our users.
Lingua.ly provides language learners with technologies to improve language skills at all levels – a web app and a mobile app for Android and iOS that enables users to learn language on the go. Lingua.ly is cloud based and includes a free online/mobile dictionary so learners can collect foreign language vocabulary and create personalized language flashcards for a smart learning system centered around spaced repetition and exposure tracking review reminders.