Tiktok Content Creator

Summary

Shades is looking for an outgoing, motivated, charismatic undergraduate student to join the growth marketing team focused on driving growth of Shades at Stanford University. This position works closely with the company’s head of digital marketing, as well as the company’s co-founders, who include former leaders from Google and GitHub. We have been backed by some of the most important investors in the world.

The primary responsibility of this role is to lead the content creation of short form, trendy, and vox-pop style videos for the Shades TikTok account. Your content will serve as primary influencer marketing and top of funnel marketing for our mobile app. You'll have direct access to the Shades founding team, learn firsthand about how a venture-backed and fast-growing startup launches a product and attracts users, and get to dive into other marketing projects depending on your own objectives for learning and experience. You'll be the face of Shades on your campus, positioning yourself for a potential full-time job down the road as our product experiences rapid growth as the new way to consume news.

Company description

Shades is a high growth, VC-backed startup, and the first news app made for today’s generation. Our company mission is to unlock the potential of online information, and to create a news source that reflects this generation’s potential, perspectives, and positivity.

It’s impossible to keep up with the range of perspectives that the internet makes available. Shades collects the different takes on everything that’s going on so that you can stay informed: no provocation, no validation, no agenda.

You can download the Shades app at In our early beta testing, we've seen that high school and college students love Shades the most -- it's a new way to follow the news, without having to depend entirely on social media.

Role description

This is a remote and self-paced part-time internship role. Perfect for a self-starter and motivated undergraduate student. While the role is remote - you can do your work anywhere and anytime - you will be needed to film content on Stanford’s campus as well as assist in on campus events and initiatives. Your primary project will be creating content for the main @ShadesNews TikTok account and to start making videos (at least 2/week). You'll be in creative control of what type of content you make. 

Shades will provide necessary equipment for you, such as a small wireless microphone, for creating the TikTok content.

You'll have a chance to earn bonus payments if your content does particularly well (measured by views and other TikTok engagement stats).

Minimum commitment 8 hours/week.

Duration

This internship will last for a minimum of 12 weeks during the Fall Semester, with the opportunity to extend for high-performing individuals. 

Qualifications

• You're currently an undergraduate student at a college/university in the United States
• You're an avid user of social media, very up to date on the latest trends, etc.
• You have a knowledge of influencer marketing
• You have a strong ability to work independently and remotely
• You have experience with basic video editing (e.g. for TikTok videos)
• You're very outgoing and are confident in approaching people out of the blue to ask them questions for the videos you'll be making
• You are confident and charismatic, with a wide social circle to draw on for people to feature in the videos

What is *not* required

We don't require any previous professional experience, and we don't require you to have a certain GPA or test scores or a resume loaded with amazing extracurriculars. We don't care what your major is. We want to find people who have a lot of hustle, heart, creativity, organization, work ethic, and charisma -- people who can make great content for us, regardless of their previous professional experience.