Content Design Intern

Fearless is looking for an  Content Design Intern to add to our diverse team of 250+ employees (and counting!).

What you’ll be doing

We’re looking to change the world by building software with a soul, and we want your help.

Fearless’ internship program provides college students and recent graduates with real-world experience in and knowledge of the government tech industry. This 10-week program is a full-time, paid, hybrid internship that will give you not just technical skills, but a broad variety of professional skills, such as interviewing, creating resumes, and networking for job readiness. 

The Content Design Intern will co-design solutions to strategic initiatives in support of the Director of Design. The Content Design Intern will do this by collaborating with designers and other technologists within Fearless to apply content design best practices and craft simple, clear, and easy to understand content — such as “frameworks” — about our services and practice areas. You should apply for this if you’re curious about a career in content design, content strategy, or user research.

What you should know:

• This is a hybrid opportunity. Our offices are located is Baltimore. Parking passes will be provided.

We need your Content skills! What other skills will help you succeed at Fearless? Glad you asked! We’re excited about candidates who can accomplish the following:

Responsibilities and Contributions:

• Works under the guidance of Design Practice Director to support the department's success. 
• Participates in meetings with users and stakeholders to better understand the user and organizational needs and goals.
• Contributes solutions to mature the team’s content design standards.
• Co-designs with plain language content that is simple, clear, easy to understand.
• Contributes to project frameworks or playbooks for internal and external purposes.
• Meets project deliverables.

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies:
Must-Have Skills:

• A portfolio of work representing completed courses or bootcamps in an area related to writing, design, communications, marketing, psychology, computer science or other relevant fields.
• Knowledge of technical writing, content strategy, product copywriting, and/or how-to documentation.
• The ability to write in plain language that is optimized for the web.

Icing-on-the-Cake Skills 

• Visual design competencies, and the ability to use style guides to produce graphics, layouts, and materials for print and digital. 

Compensation:

We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model that ensures everyone at Fearless — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or negotiation skills — is given equal pay for equal work.

• Hourly rate is $18/Hr.

So, what’s next?

Over the years, we’ve honed a 2-step interview process that helps ensure that every employee we hire is the right fit for us and that we’re the right fit for them. If we think you’re a good fit, we’ll get in touch and start scheduling your interviews!

• Introduction Interview - Introduction to Fearless, the opportunity, and your skills.
• Technical Interview - This is where we get into the nitty gritty of the project. During the Technical Interview, you’ll be interviewed by our Functional Leads and/or the team’s Project Lead to make sure your skills align with the project requirements.

About Fearless Digital:

Fearless Digital builds software with a soul. As a division inside Fearless, we're part of its digital services integrator model to unlock the power of organizations, people and tech. Our division designs, engineers, and delivers digital solutions to solve problems and drive impact. Using iterative development cycles, we minimize risk for our customers and efficiently deliver intuitive and responsive technology. In this way, we help set the stage for tech to work better for people.

That’s not our only goal, though. We also strive to create a purple culture that makes our team members excited to come to work every day. We take a holistic approach to our people’s well-being, and our culture and benefits are designed to support our people in working the way they like best. We encourage our people to pursue their passions, both in and out of the office. With flexible schedules, continuing education support, and a family-friendly work environment, we’ve created a culture that allows our team to thrive professionally and personally.

Fearless believes in equal opportunity employment. We won’t discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, nationality, age, religion, disability, military status, or sexual orientation. As a company and as individuals, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for our team, our family members, our clients, our subcontractors, and our vendors.