Silicon Valley is where personal ideas become global businesses. How about working for one of the most creative forces in tech and telling the stories of the people defining your generation?
Over the course of three months, our paid interns will have the opportunity to work with VSC account teams to support clients spanning technologies like sustainability, education, AI, robotics, financial services, and consumer electronics.
Interns may be offered opportunities to join the firm as full-time employees. And if you don’t find a home here, you will leave confident that you can apply the experience you gain in innovative marketing, public relations, and communications skills to any future career, no matter the industry.
WHO WE ARE
VSC is a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths, through unfair amounts of awareness. We customize a mix of public relations, content marketing, and multimedia to accelerate brands into vertical market leaders.
Our energy is that of a startup, albeit one that’s done it for 18 years and helped 450+ startups achieve over $50bn in exits and IPOs.
VSC is at the center of the stories that change how we live, move, work, and play.
Our client experience includes brands such as Tile, Tonal, Pax, Molekule, Poshmark, Helium Blockchain, Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital, Ford, Clearbanc, Truecaller, Signalfire, and hundreds more.
This is just a taste of our work in 2020.
Whether it's empowering millions of women to become their own fashion entrepreneurs at Poshmark; working with a Nobel-Prize winner at Mammoth Biosciences developing CRISPR-based tests for COVID-19; or launching the first autonomous cargo-plane, Xwing, that delivers PPE supplies to the Navajo Nation, we’re the storytelling engine.
WHO YOU ARE
A freestyler - you win friends and influence people with your on-the-spot ideas clarity, brevity, and humor
A critical thinker - you question everything and can remix insights across what you read, hear, and see
A killer writer - show us your writings, videos, blog posts and prove it
A leader - you show up early, roll up your sleeves, and dive into whatever the day holds
A design maven – you know how to whip up something stunning in video, HTML, InDesign, and Photoshop
QUALITIES THAT DISTINGUISH YOU FROM THE PACK
You are a constant learner and desire to be an expert in all your endeavors
You thrive off building relationships and collaborating with people who have different skill sets
You like when expectations are set so you can surpass them
WHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE
The academic program provides a deep dive into the foundation of building communications strategies for emerging tech companies. You’ll learn how to write for business, the basics of media relations, how to brainstorm creative campaigns, and the ins and outs of the startup and VC world.
Beyond that, you will learn how to deepen your ideas; you will learn how to communicate with substance and style; you will work better with a team than without one; and your voice will be heard.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
VSC understands that extraordinary people don't take ordinary jobs.
You'll work alongside people who have won more than 100 awards for breakthrough PR campaigns. Among your teammates are musicians, writers, spoken word artists, athletes, illusionists, rappers, gamers, and other creatives who work hard and celebrate each win, no matter how big or small.
Together, VSC has accrued decades of experience by working in the trenches with more than 400 businesses and startups to innovate their communications strategies in new ways. That's because we champion the obsessives, the geeks, the contrarians, and the idealists, and we embrace diversity in thought and practice.
Representation matters:
Our CEO Vijay Chattha is one of the only South Asian American communications agency CEOs in the U.S. and was recently named a Top 25 innovator in North America.
45% of our team identify as people of color / 30% of our clients are female founders / 35% of the companies we work with have people of color in their founding team
We co-founded WorldWithoutCovid.org, the first registry to match people with trials for tests and therapies.
We co-founded the The100KPledge - a public social contract for accountability in the fight toward economic justice for Black communities
We launched Climb to devote our time to help climate tech startups access the best capital, the smartest talent, and the most strategic partners
BE A POWERHOUSE IN YOUR PAJAMAS
We’re a Work-From-Anywhere team that enjoys regional socials and annual retreats in beautiful places that lets everyone recharge. In the meantime, we keep connected with themed celebrations, all-hands meetings, and entrepreneur freestyles. If you want access to the forefront of technology and design with a solid workplace to stay grounded, VSC is the place for you.