Hi, I’m Kara! I am a marketing intern here at Swiftype.

July 12 marked one full month of working as a marketing intern at Swiftype and it has been a very rewarding month, to say the least. This isn’t your typical internship where you show up to work begrudgingly expecting to be at your desk twirling your thumbs all day; or pick up coffee for your supervisor; or simply record minutes at meetings.

To be honest, it has been the complete opposite of that here at Swiftype. I graduated from Cal Poly Pomona on June 11 and flew back that night, then started the very next morning on June 12. I have basically been ambushed with a significant workload since Day 1. (Note: I definitely painted Swiftype as an evil company, but I promise it is not as vile as I make it sound. I was actually excited to start.)

The excitement wasn’t for nothing. Swiftype has far surpassed my expectations. Even though I’ve only been in this seat for one month, Swiftype has already brought me so much knowledge about marketing, tech startups, and marketing at tech startups. Every single person in the office strongly believes in the power of our products and care about my future career. I am very hands-on with projects — including assisting with advertising on podcasts, creating social media posts (and this blog), finding leads and sorting them in Salesforce, monitoring the website using Google Analytics and Moz, creating emails in Marketo, etc — and can confidently say that I contribute to the success of Swiftype. The company has done a great job in marrying personal growth and responsibility into this internship position. Not an easy feat.

Working at Swiftype is not all hard work. I genuinely enjoy coming into the office everyday because of the collaborative atmosphere, beautiful office and view, thrill of a new sale, wall filled with snacks, catered breakfast and lunch, and random Nerf gun bullets flying over my head. Not to mention last Thursday, which was my first Happy Hour/Game Night at the office. There was light hearted music and laughter yet cutthroat rivalry from the company-wide shuffleboard tournament, which more-or-less reflects the company persona.

Swiftype is truly an incredible company and I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to begin my marketing career here.

Think you’d be a great fit for the Swiftype team? Check out our openings and let us know if there’s a position that’s perfect for you!