CNN Digital Content Design – Product Design Platforms Intern: NY - Summer 2024

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From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

CNN Digital Content Design – Product Design Platforms Intern: NY - Summer 2024

Application Deadline: Friday, March 15th, 2024  

*Pro Tip: Submit your application as soon as possible – applications could close earlier due to applicant volume!* 

Your New Role 

 This internship will be located in the NYC area. The selected intern will be expected to join us in the office on a regular cadence based on the intern manager’s in office schedule. 

CNN Digital is looking for a Content Design Intern to create UX content and microcopy for our digital apps and interfaces, helping to deliver a consistent voice and style across multiple platforms and devices.

Your Role Accountabilities 

• Create user experience (UX) copy using plain language to reduce complexity in a way that feels human and intuitive.

• Ensure our UX copy is consistent, easy to understand, and aligned with the goals of the business and our customers.

• Research and benchmark competitors, and use data to understand how to iterate based on identified pain points and customer delights.

• Create content design solutions based on customer feedback, usability testing, and other data.

• Create a content strategy that works within the interface to guide users through an intuitive and easy-to-use experience.

• Collaborate with content and product designers to create and maintain content design best practices, voice and tone guidance, and design system documentation.

Qualifications & Experience 

• Please provide a portfolio of writing examples demonstrating user-centered copy and design thinking as one PDF along with your resume or linked within your resume.

• You have excellent communication, writing and editing skills with a strong understanding of grammar.

• You have the ability to focus on quality and details.

• You have an interest in supporting product design in crafting copy and structuring content that helps people understand, navigate and make decisions in digital experiences.

• You are passionate about evangelizing the importance of content design and inclusive writing.

• You’re a strong collaborator, but can also take initiative to work independently and jump in to identify issues and propose ways to fix them.

• You have the ability to meet tight deadlines, adhere to styles and processes, and learn new technologies quickly.

• You are studying Creative Writing, Tech Writing, Content Strategy programs, or a related field of study.

• Must be actively enrolled in a U.S. accredited college or university degree program for the full duration of the internship (proof of enrollment required) 

• Must be a rising Junior, or Senior Undergrad Student (18 years or older) 

• Must be in academic good standing (3.0 or above GPA) 

• Warner Bros. Discovery will only consider candidates who are presently authorized to work for any employer in the United States and who will not require work visa sponsorship from Warner Bros. Discovery now or in the future in order to retain their authorization to work in the United States. 

How We Get Things Done 

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview. 

What to know before applying: 

• The duration of the summer program regardless of which start/end option is 11 weeks.   

• Program date options: 

• Option 1: June 3rd – August 16th  

• Option 2: June 10th – August 23rd