Co-op, Corporate Communications

FIRY•Las Vegas, NV

18h•Onsite

About The Position

FIRY is seeking an exceptional graduate student for its inaugural Communications Co-op Rotational Program. This six-month, in-person program at FIRY headquarters in Las Vegas offers direct training with the Head of Communications and collaboration with the Office of the CEO and business leaders. Participants will learn how a public company crafts its narrative, prepares executives, gains attention, and communicates precisely. The role involves hands-on experience drafting CEO communications, executive remarks, press releases, thought leadership, media pitches, briefing materials, and award submissions, with increasing visibility and independence as skills develop. Successful co-ops may be offered a full-time role in FIRY's New York office, with relocation support provided. The program begins with intensive development in Las Vegas, followed by a performance review against conversion criteria. A full-time conversion would involve deepening connections with media, agency, financial, and creative communities.

Requirements

Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English, Political Science, Marketing, or a closely related discipline with expected graduation in May 2027 or December 2027.
A portfolio of strong writing. Bylines, student journalism, agency work, executive-style writing, press materials, campaign work, or independent publication may all qualify.
Prior experience through an internship, student agency, campus publication, newsroom, research center, or comparable environment.
Demonstrated ability to write in a voice other than your own and move between formats without losing clarity.
Exceptional attention to factual accuracy, grammar, audience, and deadline management.
The maturity and discretion to handle pre-announcement, personnel, financial, and executive information.
Willingness to relocate to Las Vegas for the co-op term and, if converted, stay in Las Vegas or relocate to New York for the full-time role.

Nice To Haves

Writing craft: Produces clean prose on deadline and adapts voice to an executive speaker or a wire release without losing clarity.
Ghostwriting instinct: Disappears into someone else's voice. The executive’s memo should read like the executive wrote it.
Coachability: Takes heavy edit without defensiveness and applies the correction to the next draft. This is the strongest predictor of conversion.
Discretion: Handles pre-announcement, personnel, and financial material without leakage.
Editorial judgment: Developing a sense of what is newsworthy, what is defensible, and what should not be said in public by a company with a ticker symbol.
Learn and be curious: Builds product and business fluency fast enough to write with authority about things they had never heard of three months earlier.
Deliver results: Manages assigned memos, releases, pitches, and remarks against fixed deadlines.
Tooling fluency: Uses AI tooling to increase throughput while retaining full accountability for accuracy.

Responsibilities

Draft internal CEO memos, all-hands messaging, leadership updates, executive remarks, talking points, Q&A, and briefing materials for review.
Draft press releases and announcement materials; assemble review packets and help coordinate routing across Communications, Legal, Investor Relations, Product, and other partners.
Build and maintain segmented media lists, research reporters and outlets, draft targeted pitches, and help prepare executives for media engagement.
Ghostwrite bylined articles and other executive content, adapting to the voice and point of view of the leader whose name appears on the work.
Research opportunities, maintain the executive awards calendar, and draft nominations and supporting materials.
Maintain executive bios, corporate boilerplate, fact sheets, proof points, and the corporate messaging house.
Track earned coverage and message pull-through, then apply the findings to future releases, pitches, and executive materials.
Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve research, drafting, editing, and variant generation while retaining full accountability for accuracy, confidentiality, judgment, and voice.