Stoplight is seeking a Communications Intern to join a fast-growing Austin startup in the exciting domain of API Design and Management. The role offers both hands-on learning opportunities and the chance to make valuable contributions to the Marketing team at Stoplight, which is located primarily in Austin, Texas, and Denver, Colorado.

The ideal intern candidate for Stoplight will be equal parts creative and technical with a passion for innovation, especially, for development; AND, a love of storytelling across all platforms. 

Responsibilities

• Create and distribute text, video, and graphical content for the company’s social media channels including gifs, video snippets, podcast episodes, and familiar with either iMovie or Adobe Premiere
• Draft content for and assist in the distribution of internal and external communications 
• Follow brand guidelines for the consistent creation of content in various digital formats 
• Monitor performance on multiple social platforms and channels
• Create reports analyzing media trends and performance results
• Research and share information on the latest social media best practices
• Help promote employee social media engagement and advocacy 
• Engage community members and industry professionals in relevant conversations
• Educate colleagues, executives, and partners on social media best practices
• Assist with podcast production and distribution 

Qualifications

• Marketing, Social Media and/or Communications courses 
• Experience as a Social Media practitioner
• Familiarity with social media platforms including Reddit and Discord, in addition to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram 
• Understanding of Search Engine Optimization, Google Analytics, and web traffic metrics
• Experience in basic web design and publishing
• Confident in research and presenting to others
• Familiarity with AP Style guidelines
• A natural multitasker and quick problem-solver with a strong sense of urgency
• Excellent time-management skills
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills

Preferred but not required

• Strong video editing skills, and familiarity with video production process and equipment
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, applications development and open API specifications
• Familiarity with and excitement about emerging enterprise technology such as microservices architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience working with internal Executive Leadership, Sales/Marketing, Software Engineering, and/or Customer Success teams

Why Work at Stoplight:

Stoplight is passionate about APIs and our employees. We want work to be rewarding, both in professional development and in living a healthy and balanced life. Here are some of the benefits of working at Stoplight:

• Unique opportunity to build a software product for software developers
• Strong engagement in the open-source community with our two offerings, Spectral and Prism
• Remote-first culture with a budget per employee for updating your home office
• Office hub located in Austin for local employees who want a place to work from as desired, with enforced COVID safety protocols
• Flexible vacation policy for paid time off, with 10 company holidays and unlimited sick time
• Parental leave of 12 weeks off for primary caregivers and 6 weeks for non-primary caregivers, including adoptive and foster parents, with 100% pay
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance plans for US-based employees with optional HSA that includes a $600 per year contribution from the company
• Wellness programs for health plan participants including access to services such as Ginger emotional support, Maven maternity care, Calm mental wellness, PlushCare virtual doctor visits, Vida virtual health coaching, and 25 ClassPass fitness credits per month
• 401k plan for US-based employees that includes 4% matching from the company
• Automatic enrollment in climate-positive program run by Ecologi with 100% of monthly contributions provided by the company
• Regular company-wide virtual happy hours with team building activities such as cocktail-making class, team trivia competition, and more
• Employee-hosted lunch and learn sessions where we educate one another on topics related to our industry

Why Work at Stoplight:

Stoplight is passionate about APIs and our employees. We want work to be rewarding, both in professional development and in living a healthy and balanced life. Here are some of the benefits of working at Stoplight:

• Unique opportunity to build a software product for software developers
• Strong engagement in the open-source community with our two offerings, Spectral and Prism
• Remote-first culture with a budget per employee for updating your home office
• Office hub located in Austin for local employees who want a place to work from as desired, with enforced COVID safety protocols
• Flexible vacation policy for paid time off, with 10 company holidays and unlimited sick time
• Parental leave of 12 weeks off for primary caregivers and 6 weeks for non-primary caregivers, including adoptive and foster parents, with 100% pay
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance plans for US-based employees with optional HSA that includes a $600 per year contribution from the company
• Wellness programs for health plan participants including access to services such as Ginger emotional support, Maven maternity care, Calm mental wellness, PlushCare virtual doctor visits, Vida virtual health coaching, and 25 ClassPass fitness credits per month
• 401k plan for US-based employees that includes 4% matching from the company
• Automatic enrollment in climate-positive program run by Ecologi with 100% of monthly contributions provided by the company
• Regular company-wide virtual happy hours with team building activities such as cocktail-making class, team trivia competition, and more
• Employee-hosted lunch and learn sessions where we educate one another on topics related to our industry

About Stoplight

Stoplight's design-first platform drives a collaborative API development experience. The fabric of the internet is changing with APIs. As companies increasingly rely on microservice application development, good design-first practices enabled through the Stoplight platform will minimize future costs, speed up time to market, and lead to more consistent and higher quality services. Stoplight also offers two open source tools and a visual editor. Prism is an open-source HTTP mock server for mimicking your API's behavior as if you have already built it. Spectral is an open source JSON/YAML linter for improving the quality in API descriptions, Kubernetes config, GitHub actions, or any other JSON/YAML data. Stoplight Studio is a powerful OpenAPI and JSON Visual Editor for designing and collaborating on APIs.

Stoplight was founded by Marc MacLeod in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, TX, with employees located across the globe. We live through the fullest potential of our three core values — be an owner, build together, and practice mindfulness. Stoplight is an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. 

Our company mantra is simple. Design first. Develop better.