Interested in working at The Mighty?
We’re looking for people who are driven to succeed and passionate about making a big impact. Even if these positions aren’t a perfect fit, we’d love to hear from you.
Right now, we are hiring for full-time, part-time, and internship positions.
Full-time positions:
Director of Strategic Partnerships
We are looking for Directors of Strategic Partnerships across a few categories:
- Health (hospital networks, pharmacy, insurance)
- CPG, retail, tech, corporate, nonprofits
- Pharma
Reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer, you will focus on shaping and developing client relationships within your category. The role will expand over time to build and develop a high-performing sales team, drive results for clients, and grow revenue. The ideal candidate will have delivered results in traditional and digital media environments and have existing category relationships with key clients and agencies. A consultative selling approach and a strong desire to seek new opportunities are a must.
Responsibilities will include:
- Developing and implementing a Category Sales Development Plan across the entire platform and all products
- Generating monthly territory forecasts to track and predict revenue on a monthly basis
- Keeping informed of market conditions, competitive landscape and category opportunities and challenges
- Developing and presenting professional sales presentations and proposals
- Applying a consultative selling approach on a consistent basis, in order to create strategic opportunities
- Cultivating and developing business relationships with senior influencers and decision makers across the category
- Communicating with key internal teams to help drive innovation and ensure flawless post-sales execution
To do this well, you’ll need:
- Minimum 5 years of sales experience in the digital space with strong category relationships across agencies and clients
- A bachelor’s degree and/or an MBA or advanced degree in business or related field
- History of presenting to and negotiating with executive-level decision makers
- Experience navigating a long sales cycle where new business generation is a must
- Preferred experience with selling content, insights, and programming
- An extremely self-motivated attitude with attention to detail and driven by delivering results
- Excellent problem solving and negotiation skills at both the strategic and operational level
This is a full-time position. If you’d like to apply, please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line Director of Strategic Partnerships – [your name]. In that email, please let us know what category you’re most qualified for.
Director of Insights
Reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer, you will focus on leading and shaping our go-to-market strategy and insights product offering to generate revenue from the research industry, pharma, biotech and health category. This role will expand over time to build and develop a market research team, an account management team and a business development team. The ideal candidate will have an understanding of research and insights (both quantitative and qualitative) and be familiar with the R&D industry within pharma, biotech and health.
Responsibilities will include:
- Developing and implementing an Insights Revenue Development Plan across research, recruitment and analysis
- Developing standard and custom research solutions and a monetization process that includes team structure, pricing and execution
- Supporting current and prospective clients in achieving their research goals
- Cultivating and developing business relationships with senior influencers and decision makers in the research industry
- Developing and presenting professional sales presentations and proposals
- Communicating with key internal teams to help drive innovation and ensure flawless execution
To do this well, you’ll need:
- Prior exposure to the functional areas of market research, including surveys, recruitment and analysis
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a business development or a sales role
- A bachelor’s degree and/or an MBA or advanced degree in business or related field
- History of presenting to and negotiating with executive-level decision makers
- Experience navigating client development and generating new business
- Preferred experience managing partnerships with research, pharma, biotech and health companies
- A self-motivated attitude with attention to detail and driven by delivering results
- Excellent problem solving and negotiation skills at both the strategic and operational level
This is a full-time position. If you’d like to apply, please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line Director of Insights – [your name].
Internship positions:
- Assisting The Mighty’s mental health editorial team.
- Mastering AP style
- Mastering The Mighty’s editorial guidelines
- Editing contributor stories
- Writing articles
- Planning and implementing an internship project.
This position can be completed for academic credit. To qualify, you need to (a) be available for at least 10 hours per week and (b) be able to work in-person from our office in Burbank, CA (near Los Angeles). To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line Mental Health intern –[your name].
Fall 2018 Chronic Illness Editorial Intern — for credit
- Editing and framing contributor blog submissions
- Pitching, researching and writing news and op-ed pieces
- Creating “listicles” based on insight from our community
- Planning and implementing an internship project
- Pitching to our video producers
- Assisting in day-to-day editorial operations
This position can be completed for academic credit. To qualify, you need to (a) be available for at least 10 hours per week and (b) be able to work in-person from our office in Burbank, CA (near Los Angeles). To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line Chronic Illness intern –[your name].
Thank you for your interest in The Mighty.
Fall 2018 Video Intern — for credit
We’re seeking an intern to support our video production process. If you have a genuine interest in the health topics on The Mighty and you want to build upon your video experience at a fast-paced media startup, this job is for you. In this role, you will work directly with our Video Producers, so the ability to work effectively on a team is important.
Personal experience within the health community is an asset. You should also have working knowledge of Adobe Premiere and Photoshop.
Responsibilities may include:
- Creating graphics for videos
- Researching video concepts and gathering relevant assets for Producers’ ongoing projects
- Assisting with day-to-day video operations (casting, scheduling, encoding, distributing, etc.)
- Coordinating Facebook Live videos with contributors from our community
- Tracking analytics on video performance to inform our video strategy
- Communicating with Mighty community members who want to be in our videos
- Planning and implementing an internship project
This position must be completed for academic credit. To qualify, you need to (a) be available for at least 10 hours per week and (b) be able to work in-person from our office in Burbank, CA (near Los Angeles).
To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line Fall Video Intern – [your name]
Events Manager: this role is now closed.
Have you witnessed the power of bringing people together, and thought to yourself, “I want to make this happen every day”? Then we at The Mighty want to hear from you.
As The Mighty’s Events Manager your mission is to implement and support an events strategy that strengthens our bond with our community, and their bonds with each other. You are creative and highly organized and can manage several projects at once. Above all, you will have a big heart.
This is a full-time role and is ideally based in Los Angeles, though we are open to other cities in the U.S. This role is part of The Mighty’s community team and reports directly to its head of community.