Program Details:

Our Emerging Talent Programs, which includes Interns, Trainees, and Finance Rotational Associates, offer unique opportunities for students, recent graduates, and emerging talent to work alongside the teams that come together to create movies, TV shows, and other great experiences. These seasonal, paid assignments provide meaningful and productive work that builds on your experience and develops your skills further. You will be provided with challenging tasks, real-world experience, and many educational and social networking opportunities.

This Summer Internship is from May/June through August 29th (start and end dates are flexible based on school schedules) and all candidates must be able to work 40 hours a week, Monday through Friday in person in the specified office location. This position is ideal for a student enrolled in an accredited college or university interested in continuing their education through professional experience.

Department Description: 

Our team supports the Game Shows Division. We work on Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and any other property currently in development.

The Intern, Creative Operations & Production will support our in-house team as we scale up our production workflows and operations across the Game Shows organization. This includes internal stakeholders and external partners as well as the consumer products, mobile games, licensing and development teams. The intern will help spearhead a cross-functional migration for our team, and assist with other production duties and operations initiatives. The Intern, Creative Operations & Production reports directly to the Senior Manager, Creative Operations & Production.

They will assist with campaigns and projects for our various workflows and deliverables, including events, newsletters, sales reels, print ads, on-air promos, digital and social campaigns, show graphics packages, logos, pitch decks.

Ideally, a successful candidate is well-versed in Airtable or a similar production/project management SaaS. They should also know how to build, test, launch, and troubleshoot grid, Gantt, Kanban, and calendar views along with other interfaces and reporting dashboards, which they’ll do for different teams within our division. They will help with our active migration from Wrike to Airtable - solidifying information hierarchies, crafting and testing automations, customizing interfaces and dashboards for different user types, and more. Accordingly, they should be comfortable with data migration, content production, asset management, workflow mapping and system organization. In addition, this role will work closely with the Manager and Senior Manager to support other creative operations/production duties, such as intake and activation of new creative requests, closing out tasks/requests, and more.  

This intern has hands-on experience with branded content creation and the internal infrastructure required to support said content creation. Requires a well-organized, productive, efficient and autonomous worker. Must have a strong attention to detail and be very adaptable. Someone with an understanding of creative briefs and the marketing/media production lifecycle. A person who can multi-task under pressure, solve roadblocks on their own and prioritize their tasks well.

MajorDutiesandResponsibilities

Data Migration & Platform Build

• Act as main point person for our data migration into Airtable, working closely with the Senior Manager and Manager, along with the Director of Technology, Senior Manager of Tech Ops, our platform reps, and other members of our team.
• Help to establish milestones/checkpoints, and goals, map out internal/external workflows and associated approvals, identify various user types (internal and external) and their respective needs, continue to build and test automations, refine and polish interfaces, create custom views/reporting/dashboards for different teams
• Support the training and user adoption once migration is live, including hosting Airtable trainings within our team, supporting user adoption, tech support/coordinating with platform reps, and troubleshooting/escalating any roadblocks or issues.

Supporting Content Creation

• Assist Manager and Senior Manager of Creative Operations and Production with ingesting, processing, and activating new requests in our SaaS
• Create folders and dedicated spaces for new assets/deliverables in our internal tools and SaaS
• Confirm all working files have been uploaded and nothing is missing, then close out tasks
• Help ensure creatives have everything they need prior to task activation (e.g. confirm that it is the latest and correct version of asset before activating task).

Qualifications/Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in creative operations and producing creative content in internships, classwork, or student organizations
• Baseline understanding of the creative workflows for graphic design, video, and animation
• Mac, Google Suite experience a must
• Strong familiarity with Airtable or similar SaaS is required
• Rapidly disseminate and organize data, optimize information architecture, and craft standardized naming conventions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated, quick on their feet with ability to pivot; creative problem solver
• Manages time appropriately and meets aggressive deadlines
• Previous experience with data and/or platform migrations, especially cross-functional shifts within an organization, is a plus

The anticipated base salary for this position is $22/hour. This role may also qualify for comprehensive benefits. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location of the position.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.

SPE will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.

To request an accommodation for purposes of participating in the hiring process, you may contact us at SPE_Accommodation_Assistance@spe.sony.com.