Product Marketing Intern (Summer 2020)
About CrowdStrike
At CrowdStrike we’re on a mission - to stop breaches. Our groundbreaking technology, services delivery, and intelligence gathering together with our innovations in machine learning and behavioral-based detection, allow our customers to not only defend themselves, but do so in a future-proof manner. We’ve earned numerous honors and top rankings for our technology, organization and people – clearly confirming our industry leadership and our special culture driving it. We also offer flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives in a way that works for them. So if you’re ready to work on unrivaled technology where your desire to be part of a collaborative team is met with a laser-focused mission to stop breaches and protect people globally, let’s talk.
About the Role
The Product Marketing Intern will have the opportunity to work on some of the key aspects of the product marketing function, such as market analysis, content creation, marketing event support, lead generation and enablement.
Job Responsibilities/Projects
- Market research: Analysis of relevant on-line community forums such as Reddit and Spiceworks. Analyze trends in prospects and customers’ needs and questions and perception of different endpoint vendors competitors mentioned in the past 12 months. Analysis of comments. Result of survey to be used Allow to prioritize future product marketing content creation and activities.
- Non-technical competitive research: Research a specific type of asset, or product positioning across competitors - collect, review and analyze positioning, structure, content. Deliver report.
- Sales enablement: Assist in the creation of at least one sales enablement asset relevant to a topic, product launch or announcement that are relevant at the time of the internship.
- Asset creation: Create a least one asset such as a white paper, training module, blog, solution brief, depending on relevant topics and need at the time of the internship.
- Inventory and review existing marketing content
- Marketing event support (such as BlackHat in Las Vegas in August)
What You’ll Need
- Pursuing a degree (Undergrad / Masters) in either Business, Marketing, Communications
- A positive attitude towards work, excitement to take on new responsibilities and is able to fulfill and finish the tasks assigned to them.
- Knowledge of PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Outlook
- Be organized with great attention to details
- Be a self-Starter that is able to work independently once given clear objectives, the necessary context to be successful.
- The ability to write and express ideas clearly is also key to the success of this role.
Bonus Points
- Love of technology and cybersecurity
- Enjoy storytelling and writing content
- Experience writing blogs, white papers, academic papers, etc.
Summer Internship Program Experience Teaser:
- Access to Intern Executive Speaker Series
- Development Workshops
- Fun social and give back events
- Access to company events
- Assigned Mentor
- Continuous feedback
- Paid Holidays and 401k
- Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats
We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives and ways of solving problems so we strive to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
CrowdStrike is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.