Shopping & Products Fellow

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About BuzzFeed, Inc.

BuzzFeed, Inc. (Ticker: BZFD) is home to the best of the internet. Across food, news, pop culture and commerce, our brands drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, buy, and obsess over next. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed, Inc. is committed to making it better: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our audience to live better lives. We'll continue to recruit the best founders and creators to join us in this mission, with more additions like HuffPost to come.

Business Area: Content
Job Category: Editorial
Hourly: $18.00 USD
Union Status: Non-Union
BuzzFeed Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We reserve the ability to adjust the final compensation for this role based on the final candidate's experience, skillset, certifications, and geography.

The Role

Are you the type of person who is always discovering bizarre kitchen gadgets, coupon codes, or interesting stores and sending links to your friends until they beg you to stop?

We want to hear from you!

BuzzFeed is looking for shopping- and products-focused writers for three-month, full-time fellowship roles. This is a paid position (starting at $18/hour). The Fellowship allows candidates to work fully remotely in select locations, but we also have monthly in-office days in our New York office for those who live locally. BuzzFeed's shopping section is an expanding editorial endeavor that includes both service-oriented and entertaining content for a shopping-minded audience (see our “Shopping” page for examples).

The deadline to apply for this Fellowship is April 26th, 2024 by 5 PM EST, but applications are being considered on a rolling basis. All application materials will need to be submitted when you apply. The intended (and tentative) start date for this Fellowship is June 10th, 2024.

The BuzzFeed Shopping & Products Fellowship is a program for aspiring and hungry writers eager to hone their skills, and to learn by doing. The program is a crash course in how to help our audience discover deals and great products through themed roundups and more.

You should have enough shopping knowledge to discover and share products and deals, and enough of a low-key (or high-key) internet obsession to quickly find, drive, and react to current trends. You’re just as comfortable writing about a product you love yourself as digging into reviews to find out which viral skincare products actually work or unearthing quirky kitchen gadgets people haven’t seen before.

Fellows will work with and learn from members of the BuzzFeed Shopping team. You won’t be running errands for senior staff, or transcribing someone else’s interviews, you will be pitching ideas, brainstorming, collaborating on non-writing projects, and writing dozens of stories that will be published to BuzzFeed.com and promoted across our social channels. The Fellowship is fun and inspiring, but also fast-paced and challenging.

You Will

Research products in various categories and price points that are of interest to the BuzzFeed audience.
Write and edit shareable, unique and/or service-forward product roundups as well as SEO-friendly shopping guides or reviews.
Track and analyze your posts using affiliate analytics.

You Have

Genuine love for the internet and online shopping
Firm understanding of the BuzzFeed audience and voice
Strong attention to detail
Ability to handle critical feedback and improve from it
Flawless spelling, grammar, and usage in your writing
A positive, curious, playful disposition with a sense of humor

Please submit the following when applying to be a Shopping & Products Fellow:

Instead of a formal cover letter, please discuss your shopping habits (for example: what do you always buy in-store vs. online, how do you find a good deal, what ~special tricks~ do you use that most people don’t know about, etc.)
Tell us about a couple of products you’re obsessed with
Create a BuzzFeed.com/community profile, and create 2 shopping posts (if doing a roundup, no more than five products are needed). When you submit your posts, include “This is for the Shopping & Products Fellowship.” in the description. You’ll be asked to provide the links to your posts when you complete the application. SO, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR COMMUNITY POSTS BEFORE COMPLETING THIS APPLICATION! We encourage you to check buzzfeed.com/shopping to see examples of posts that are connecting with people.
P.S. We love AI tools (seriously, they’re the best), but for your edit test, we want to hear YOUR voice, not ChatGPT’s
Attach a resume — keep it to one page!

"If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]. Requests received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response."

Life at BuzzFeed, Inc.

We celebrate inclusion and are committed to equal opportunity employment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.

You can expect:

A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions
Opportunities for personal and professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning @ BuzzFeed team, our Employee Resource Groups, and more

Note: BuzzFeed, Inc. offers remote/flexible work (unless specified to be required to be in-person) and open to hiring remote candidates who are residents in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MS, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, and WV. For non sales roles, we can also hire in AK, AR, AZ, ID, KS, MO, ND, SC, and VT.