Visual Storyteller & Community Marketing Intern

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Be a presence in the community— Engage authentically in Tallo's Interest Groups, Challenge Champions, and community spaces. Respond to students, celebrate wins, spark conversations, and surface moments worth amplifying. This is real engagement, not scripted moderation.

• Turncommunity moments into visual stories–Spot compelling student stories and career milestones, then design them into shareable assets: winner spotlights, quote graphics, campaign visuals, and social-ready content.

• Design brand and campaign assets–Create visuals in Canva (and other tools) for community challenges, campaigns, and career-education content. Maintain brand consistency across formats and channels.

• Support video storytelling–Createand edit short-form video content that brings student stories to life.You should be comfortable on camera when the moment calls for it — whetherthat'sdemonstratinga feature, hosting a community segment, or capturing a behind-the-scenes clip.

• Contribute to the content waterfall–Help connect community challenge cycles to polished campaign assets — from student submissions to winner content to on-demand library visuals on Tallo.com.

• Collaboratecross-functionally–Partner with teammates across Marketing, Product, and Community — as well as our content, video, and social interns — to keep creative work cohesive and campaigns moving.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

WHAT YOU NEED:

• Minimum high school diploma (or its equivalencyi.eGED)

• Strong visual design skills — you have a genuine eye for layout, typography, color, and brand consistency

• Experience with Canva (required); familiarity with Figma or Adobe Creative Suite is a plus

• Ability to shoot and edit short-form video content (CapCut, iMovie, etc.)

• Comfortable appearing on camera when needed — this role may involve hosting community moments, demos, or short clips

• Experience engaging in online communities — whether running a Discord, managing a club's social presence, or just being deeply online in the right ways

• Good at communicating (writing and talking)

• Can create a Tallo account and use it

• Ability to work40hoursa week

• Ability to cleara requiredbackground check.

WHAT MAKES YOU STAND OUT:

• Visually fluent— You thinkinimages first. Your design work has personality, not just polish.

• Genuinely social— You enjoy engaging with people online. Youdon'tfind community interaction draining — you find it energizing.

• Storyteller instinct— You can look at a student's career challenge submission andimmediatelysee the visual narrative worth telling.

• Curious about AI— You've experimented with AI tools in your creative process and are excited to keep pushing.

• Self-motivated— You take a brief and run with it. You come back with something better than expected.

• Care about the mission— You're genuinely moved by stories of young people figuring out their futures and want to help tell themwell.

• Team player– You show up for weekly meetings and brainstorms. You stick to your commitments or actively communicate when you need help.

WHAT YOU’LL GET:

• Paid experience–You’llget hands on work experience with our Social Media team, Marketing team, and others while being paid for your efforts

• Mentorship– You'll be paired with a mentor, a manager, and have weekly team and one-on-one meetings with our early talent development leader to provide a robust support system.

• Learning environment– You'll get the opportunity to learn on the job and learn new platforms, tools, and skills to help further your development.

• Impactful projects– Youwon’tbe given busy work.You’llwork on real-world business impactful projects that garnerreal resultsand contribute to our overall goals.

• Equipment– You'll be provided with all the equipment, technology, tools, and access to make you successful, including Tallo swag and social media kits.

• Potential extension– You'll receive the opportunity to extend your internship into thefallbased on performance and business needs.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no current formal supervisory responsibilities.

Certificates and Licenses: None

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Thework environment characteristics described here are representative ofthoseanemployee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This is a home-based position

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections.

We anticipate this position will pay $22.00 per hour. This salary is not guaranteed, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.

The above job isnotintended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.