FamilySearch Social Media Team Intern (Hybrid, Lehi UT) at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Overview

Do you love digging into data, moving fast, and helping great content reach the right people? We're looking for a sharp, driven Social Media Intern to join FamilySearch's global social team.

Role

Do you love digging into data, moving fast, and helping great content reach the right people? We're looking for a sharp, driven Social Media Intern to join FamilySearch's global social team. This is a working internship where you'll be contributing to real projects from day one alongside a small, fast-moving team that manages millions of followers across social platforms worldwide. The work matters here. FamilySearch exists to help people discover and connect with their family—and the social team plays a real role in making that happen. You'll build skills that prepare you for a career in experience design, social media, or digital marketing and you'll have the work to show for it.

About The Company

Responsibilities

What You'll Walk Away With

• Real experience at a global scale. You'll have worked on things you can talk about in your next interview
• Deep, hands-on YouTube optimization skills including TubeBuddy, SEO, and performance analysis
• The ability to read data, build a compelling presentation, and turn findings into clear recommendations
• Experience design fundamentals including user journey mapping, audience segmentation, and understanding how people move through digital spaces
• Exposure to livestream production and video content workflows
• Experience working with teams across multiple countries and time zones
• A strong understanding of global content distribution and what it takes to share best practices at scale

What You'll Do

• Support YouTube optimization efforts including SEO, metadata, thumbnails, Tube Buddy, and multi-language strategy to help more people find us on the world’s second-largest search engine
• Dig into analytics regularly and present clear, data-backed findings and recommendations to the team, including building PowerPoint decks that communicate the story behind the numbers
• Help map and improve the user journey across our social channels, thinking about how our audiences discover us, engage with us, and take action
• Support livestream production efforts by learning the workflow, helping things run smoothly, and bringing ideas that make our broadcasts better
• Coordinate and distribute campaign and program assets to social teams around the world, making sure best practices travel with them
• Work alongside FamilySearch social teams across multiple homelands and continents
• Help maintain content systems that keep regional teams publishing consistently
• Support influencer and VIP strategy in partnership with our PR team
• Assist with drafting social copy as needed
• Bring ideas. We want someone who notices opportunities and says something

What's In It for You

• A real role on a small team doing big things. You won't be in the background
• The chance to work with social teams across the world and see your contributions show up globally
• Mentorship and coaching from a seasoned team of communications and marketing professionals
• Work that connects to something bigger than a content calendar
• A team that's genuinely collaborative and wants to see you grow
• Competitive pay, full-time, with possibility of extending up to 12 months
• Hybrid work setup at our Lehi FamilySearch location

Requirements

You Should Have

• Current student status or recent grad within 12 months (Experience Design, Communications, Marketing, or related field preferred)
• A genuine passion for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and connecting families
• An experience design mindset. You think about audiences, user journeys, and how to make digital experiences better
• Some experience or interest in managing or growing a YouTube channel, including YouTube Studio, SEO, and performance metrics
• Familiarity with TubeBuddy or similar tools, or a real drive to learn them fast
• Genuine comfort with data. You've used analytics platforms, you know how to find the story in the numbers, and reporting what happened isn't enough for you
• Strong PowerPoint skills. Clean, well-structured, and clear
• Strong written communication and a feel for adapting tone across platforms and audiences
• A track record of meeting deadlines and keeping multiple projects moving at once
• The ability to stay composed and communicate clearly when things get busy
• Curiosity and the confidence to bring ideas forward without being asked
• Availability to work full-time, 40 hours per week, 8am–5pm MT
  

Bonus Points If You Have

• A portfolio with experience design, digital marketing, storytelling or social media work
• Experience with project management tools like Monday.com, Asana, or similar
• Basic video production knowledge or familiarity with livestream workflows
• Background or coursework in Experience Design, user journey mapping, or audience research
• Skills with CapCut, Canva, Adobe Premiere, or Photoshop
• Experience with influencer strategy or PR collaboration
• A track record of growing social accounts across multiple platforms
• Interest in family history and genealogy
  

You're Also Someone Who Is

• Warm, trustworthy, and easy to work with
• A strong executor who follows through and takes ownership
• Analytical first. You let the data lead
• Someone who brings ideas without waiting to be asked
• Calm when things shift or move fast
• Honest and clear when something needs to be flagged
• Aligned with FamilySearch's purpose and the values behind it (kindness, trust, inspiration, effectiveness, simplicity)