Content Safety & Policy Intern

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🕒 April 9

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $18 / hour

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⚪️ Entry-level

✍️ Content Marketing Manager

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Wattpad

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2006

📱 Media

👥 B2C

💰 Venture Round on 2019-03

Media • Entertainment • B2C

Wattpad is a leading global webnovel platform operated by WEBTOON Entertainment, dedicated to revolutionizing the world of storytelling. With a community of over 90 million users, primarily made up of Gen Z and millennials, Wattpad enables users across the globe to read, write, and share stories in over 25 languages. The platform connects diverse voices with Hollywood and other major entertainment industries, turning popular stories into movies, TV shows, and more. Founded in 2006 by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen, Wattpad has grown from a simple mobile reading app to becoming a significant player in the entertainment sector. It empowers writers to monetize their work through its Paid Stories and Wattpad Originals programs, offering a platform where serialized stories thrive and where community and innovation lead to new entertainment frontiers. Wattpad's headquarters is in Toronto, with additional offices worldwide, including a notable presence in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

📋 Description

• Content Auditing & Risk Assessment: Review original production content to identify potential brand safety concerns. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Content, Localization, and Editorial Programming teams to perform quality control and safety checks on episodes prior to publication. • Policy Research & Intelligence: Track and analyze evolving global trends in censorship, copyright, media law, and internet governance. • Documentation & Reporting: Support the policy team by drafting high-impact memos, policy briefs, fact sheets, and weekly trend updates. • Socio-Political Monitoring: Stay current on global socio-political events, providing localized analysis on how these events impact content policy across different regions.

🎯 Requirements

• Educational Background: Recent graduate or current Senior pursuing a degree in Media Studies, Journalism, Sociology, Community Studies, or a related field. • Analytical Mindset: Deep interest in diversity and inclusion, content compliance, and the legalities of the digital landscape. • Communication Excellence: Exceptional writing and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex policy issues into actionable insights. • Cultural Fluency: A strong pulse on pop culture and societal trends within the United States, Latin America, and South Korea. • Technical Proficiency: Professional experience with MS Office Suite and SharePoint; ability to adapt quickly to new internal CMS tools. • Language Skills: Bilingual proficiency in Korean or Japanese is highly preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Content Warning: Due to the nature of trust and safety work, this role may involve frequent exposure to sensitive, graphic, or otherwise disturbing content. • Resilience and a high degree of emotional intelligence are essential. • Join us and work with some of the biggest artists, IP, and fandoms in comics!