Voltteware is a Charleston, SC, company currently offering the following internship opportunities for Summer 2016. All internships are three months in length with interns expected to work 12-15 hours, 2-3 days a week, with an in-person meeting one day a week. Internships are unpaid, and participants must provide their own computer. Since Voltteware is an extremely early stage startup, participants have an opportunity to make a very direct, very visible impact across all facets of the company. There is no “grunt work”. Participants must be self-starting with the gumption to take a high value project from start to finish. Goals are set and reviewed on a weekly basis with the participant able to set their own hours.
Social Media, Marketing, & Business Development Opportunities
Potential Responsibilities
- Create, manage, and maintain StockAid’s social media accounts from the ground up.
- Design and source marketing materials.
- Capture press attention and write promotional articles.
- Perform market research and provide insight into leveraging StockAid’s competitive advantage.
- Propose a marketing campaign with definitive goals and the means to achieve them.
- Attend local events in the small business distribution and manufacturing space.
- Put together a business strategy to obtain new clients.
- Ability to write clearly and concisely to articulate a message with a stylish voice.
- Strong self-starter with a can-do attitude.
- A history of entrepreneurship is a definite plus.
- An understanding of various social media tools and ways to use them.
- Knowledge of graphical tools such as Photoshop is a plus.
- Redesign / rewrite the company's website at www.voltteware.com.
- Learn the R programming language and refactor or enhance time-series algorithms.
- Assist in implementing a unit / integration testing framework in a variety of languages and platforms such as Node, Angular, R, and JavaScript.
- Get your hands dirty with setting up a variety of Heroku plugins and services.
- Help write a client facing api for forecasting services.
- Strong self-starter with a can-do attitude.
- A history of entrepreneurship is a definite plus.
- Demonstrable ability with at least one programming language (Computer Science interns) and an interest in JavaScript, Node.js, or Angular development.
- Demonstrable ability with graphical tools such as Photoshop (Graphic Design interns).
- An interest in learning the R programming language (Math interns).