Company: tastytrade
Role: Social Media Intern
The Social Media Intern will support the integrated marketing team by curating engaging content for both the brokerage and network.
What you'll do:
- Support the integrated marketing team by curating content for the brokerage and network
- Work with the Social Media content creation team to craft and execute compelling vertical video for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and other social media platforms.
- Iterate and optimize our existing social strategy
- Provide weekly reports and quarterly competitive analysis
- Research, monitor and recommend trending topic or content types
- Craft legal, educational slide decks/presentations in line with our branding for social media content and long-form videos on our web application
Who you are:
- Excited to learn and take on new challenges
- A strong communicator who isn’t afraid to share ideas
- A self-starter who takes initiative
- A team player who loves to collaborate
- Organized, reliable, and detail-oriented
- Great at managing time and meeting deadlines
- Open to feedback and always looking to improve
- Passionate about social media and content creation
Internship Perks + Benefits:
- Insurance – Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Health Care account – FSA or HSA
- Life Insurance (Basic Life, AD&D, Supplemental Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment for additional, spousal, and child)
- Mental Health and Wellness Resources
- Commuter Benefits (Parking and Transit)
- 401K (if 21 years old and over)/Roth
- Gym Reimbursement
- Charity Donation Matching
- Nationwide Pet Insurance
- Paid Holiday (if on a working day)
- Daily catered lunch when in the office
- Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
- In-building gym
- Shuttle to/from Metra
Compensation: $20/hr
Expected hours: 40hr/week
About Us:
The tasty house of brands empowers individual traders differently. tastylive, founded in 2011, is an online financial media network, tastytrade (previously known as tastyworks) is a self-directed retail brokerage firm that launched in 2017, tasty Software Solutions and tastyfx, is a registered Forex broker-dealer.
In 2021, London-based IG Group acquired tastylive, Inc. (previously known as tastytrade) and assigned it to lead business in North America. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US over the past few years. Changing the IG US name to tastyfx marks the next chapter, in aligning with the tasty brand family and offering a more forex-focused experience. This combined team has years of experience like institutional brokers, but also a passion for disrupting the entire trading industry.
Our dream is simple: we want more people to find more success with a better trading experience. That’s why we’re investing heavily in the right people, technology, and media to make that happen in the US and across the globe.
Location: Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars.
tastytrade | tastylive | tastyfx | tastycrypto
1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607
*Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they have every single qualification. Our team is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
What We Do
tastyworks is a retail brokerage that provides professional-grade, world-class technology to retail traders at industry-leading prices. We focus on derivatives trading and offer equities, equity options, futures, and futures options. Built from the ground up by a team with decades of experience in the financial industry, we’re a modern brokerage for the current financial climate.
*tastyworks is a wholly owned subsidiary of tastytrade and part of a broader family of companies that work to serve all the needs of an individual investor. We aim to fill the financial vertical with: tastytrade, educational content; tastyworks, a platform and tools for trading derivatives; The Small Exchange, retail-accessible futures products; Quiet Foundation, a free investment advisory service; dough, a content-filled, easy-to-use stock-trading app; and luckbox, a monthly print and digital financial magazine.
