Fall Fellowship
Join the flytedesk Fall Fellowship to get hands on experience with media, politics, start up culture, and more.
Full-time · Remote
Fall Fellowship
Join the flytedesk Fall Fellowship to get hands on experience with media, politics, start up culture, and more.
Flytedesk powers media and advertising on college campuses. We started flytedesk as the tool we needed at our college newspapers and have grown to become the single largest funding source for student journalism. Brick by brick, we’re creating a sustainable business model for college media by providing a coveted service to advertisers. We’re mission-driven, profitable, and unrelenting in pushing our business and customers forward.
Back-to-school season at Flytedesk is always intense, and this year it’ll be doubly so. In addition to our normal course of brand advertising work, we’ll be working with some of the biggest names in politics and advocacy to turn out youth voters for the general election.
The 2024 elections will be extremely consequential, competitive, and expensive, and the youth vote will be a critical deciding factor. Elections and Advocacy is one of our favorite verticals and we partner with a ton of phenomenally inspiring organizations and candidates.
This fellowship is designed for individuals who care deeply about media and politics and want to be on the front lines in 2024. We offer fair warning that elections can be challenging and very time-intensive work, but this experience is an opportunity to make an impact by helping organizations reach and engage the important college audience. We’ve designed this program to give hands-on experience with every type of media, as Flytedesk operates a multi-channel platform that includes: digital, print, social, outdoor, influencer, SMS, guerilla/street team, and more. It is a great crash course for future work in the media industry, at an advertising agency, or in politics.
From day 1, each fellow will be responsible for essential aspects of flytedesk’s campaign execution. In addition to daily tasks, Fellows will go through an intensive one-week training program that will cover the broader media and political advertising industries, as well as specific training for the program.
Each fellow will be placed directly with a member of the flytedesk team, in a role tailor made for their experiences + our needs. You will work alongside 4-5 other fellows and get to know them well. You’ll also have access to the wider flytedesk network for educational and professional development opportunities.
We are the decisions we make, and at flytedesk we decided to save college media. Our progress is measured by advancement towards our mission, the experience we have along the way, and the revenue we generate doing it.
We’ve never gotten around to having enshrined, heavy-handed “core values” but there are some things you should know about working with us…
This isn’t a job and if you treat it like one you won’t be successful. Startups are hard, change is constant, the highs are high, the lows are low, you learn a lot about yourself, you learn a lot about your peers. We want to share the full beautiful, messy experience with you. You need to be looking to build something that matters, dive in with an open mind, and find the value in being wrong. We’re wrong all the time, if we took it personally we’d be miserable.
We work incredibly hard and find sweat to be a virtue. We used to dress this up but that just leads to misaligned expectations. Our way of building things and navigating uncertainty is to power through it. Obviously, we try to outsmart problems first, but we’re liberal with the elbow grease and you should be comfortable with that.
YOU get the sponge! That’s a Curb your Enthusiasm joke and at risk of destroying humor through explanation, don’t wait for someone else to solve a problem that you see clearly. Our best people dive in head first and figure it out, even if it’s not “their” job.
While we take our work seriously, we don’t take ourselves seriously. We treat each other with candor and kindness, and also challenge and hold each other accountable. We believe we’re all a work in progress and there’s humor in just about everything. We make time for silliness. We appreciate levity.
$23/hour
40 hours per week, plus some (time-and-a-half paid) overtime work may be requested.
25-week program (June 25-December 13)
This is a full-time position
The Flytedesk office is remote. We expect employees to work in a continental US time zone.
flytedesk is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to a workplace where everyone can be successful and included. We also see our responsibility going beyond our walls to work for equity in the media ecosystem we serve and in the lives of the young people we train and support.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis. If this sounds like you, click below to apply. No need for a cover letter, just follow the prompts. We're excited to meet you!