Barstool Sports is seeking a Video Editing Intern to join our Post Production team for the summer. This role is ideal for a highly creative, hard-working individual with a strong understanding of the Barstool brand. You’ll gain hands-on experience editing a variety of content, from podcasts, social clips, behind the scenes footage cutdowns, one off content, etc. This internship runs from May 27 to August 29 and is based 100% in our Chicago office.
What You'll Do
- Assist in video editing, color grading, and sound mixing for a range of Barstool projects.
- Support social video clipping output, ensuring engaging and high-quality content for multiple platforms.
- Help organize and maintain project files and backups, ensuring a smooth post-production workflow.
- Learn and assist with Adobe Premiere Pro and other industry-standard editing software.
- Gain hands-on experience with the post-production workflow, contributing to various tasks and projects as needed.
What You Have
- A strong understanding of social media, sports, pop culture, and current events.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Adobe Premiere Pro.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- A passion for video editing and storytelling.
- Long form and short form editing experience is a bonus
- Experience creating social clips and using captioning
- A good idea of Youtube content as well as an ability to recreate into a social format
- A portfolio available for review
Pay Rate: $16/hr
*This position is not benefit-eligible*
Barstool Sports is a company that will drive the way media is created and consumed for years to come. Working at Barstool Sports means being part of a team that is solutions-oriented, celebrates creativity, and supports one another.
Joining means having access to competitive and valuable benefits and perks, including but not limited to:
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance; Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Benefits
- A 4% 401(k) employer match
- Unlimited vacation time, including Summer break in July and Holiday break in December
- Monthly employer contribution towards cell phone reimbursement
- Employee discount to the Barstool Sports store
- Financial wellness benefits through Origin
- A monthly stipend for UberEats
What We Value
- Rep the brand as best you can
- We have lots of different brains, be open to them
- Never change who you are, that's who we hired
- Find the solution, don't be the problem
- Don't be afraid to try something new
- Common Sense. Use it.
- Be there for your audience
- Always think about how you can help
Barstool Sports is for everyone. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Barstool Sports does not accept unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes. Barstool Sports will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement.
Top Skills
What We Do
Barstool Sports is one of the most influential lifestyle brands in America. With a rich history, Barstool Sports has one of the most highly coveted, fiercely loyal, and incredibly engaged audiences, which has put Barstool at the top of the charts.
Barstool Sports is the preeminent digital sports media brand that has established an extremely influential and deeply authentic voice. Barstool Sports creates innovative content with massive distribution on multiple platforms including web, apps, podcasts, radio, video, social, events, pay-per-view, subscription, and TV to an incredibly engaged audience.
Barstool steals the spotlight in cultural moments. Their presence at major sporting events drives more awareness, engagement, and viewership in younger demographics than any other media brand. Barstool Sports and its founder, Dave Portnoy, consistently ranks as the #1 most influential social media account at major sporting events like the Kentucky Derby, Super Bowl, PGA Championship, U.S. Open Golf, Stanley Cup Finals, NASCAR's Daytona 500, and more.
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