About BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed (Nasdaq: BZFD) is home to the best of the internet with a mission to spread joy & truth. Across entertainment, news, food, pop culture, & commerce, our brands drive conversation & inspire what audiences watch, read, & buy now & into the future. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed is committed to improving it: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, & creative; & inspiring our audience to live better lives. 

Business Area: Content

Job Category: Editorial

Hourly: $20.00 an hour

Union Status: Non-Union 

BuzzFeed is committed to fair & equitable compensation practices. We reserve the ability to adjust the final compensation for this role based on the final candidate's experience, skillset, certifications, & geography.

Are you the type of person who is always discovering bizarre kitchen gadgets, coupon codes, or interesting stores & sending links to your friends until they beg you to stop?

We want to hear from you!BuzzFeed is looking for shopping- & products-focused writers for paid, three-month, full-time fellowship roles (with the possibility to extend and/or convert to a permanent position). BuzzFeed's shopping section is an expanding editorial endeavor that includes both service-oriented & entertaining content for a shopping-minded audience (see our Shopping page for examples).

The Community You Will Join

The BuzzFeed Shopping & Products Fellowship is a program for aspiring & hungry writers eager to hone their skills & to learn by doing. The program is a crash course in how to help our audience discover deals & great products through themed roundups & more.

You should have enough shopping knowledge to discover & share products & deals, & enough of a low-key (or high-key) internet obsession to quickly find, drive, & react to current trends. Youre just as comfortable writing about a product you love yourself as digging into reviews to find out which viral skincare products actually work or unearthing quirky kitchen gadgets people havent seen before.

Fellows will work with & learn from members of the BuzzFeed Shopping team. You wont be running errands for senior staff or transcribing someone elses interviews; you will be pitching ideas, brainstorming, collaborating on non-writing projects, & writing dozens of stories that will be published to BuzzFeed.com & promoted across our social channels. The Fellowship is fun & inspiring, but also fast-paced & challenging. 

This is a paid position (starting at $20/hour). The Fellowship allows candidates to work fully remote from select locations, but we also have monthly in-office days at our New York office. We have an office in Los Angeles for local residents.

Applications are being considered on a rolling basis, but all applications must be submitted by March 27th, 2025, by 5 PM EST. All application materials must be submitted when you apply.  The intended (and tentative) start date for this Fellowship is Tuesday, June 9th, 2026.

A Typical Day

• Research products in various categories & price points that are of interest to the BuzzFeed audience.
• Write & edit shareable, unique and/or service-forward product roundups as well as SEO-friendly shopping guides or reviews.
• Track & analyze your posts using affiliate analytics.

Who You Are

• Genuine love for the internet & online shopping
• Firm understanding of the BuzzFeed audience & voice
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to handle critical feedback & improve from it
• Flawless spelling, grammar, & usage in your writing
• A positive, curious, playful disposition with a sense of humor

Use of artificial intelligence or an LLM such as ChatGPT during the interview process may be grounds for rejection of your application.

To Apply:

• Instead of a formal cover letter, please discuss your shopping habits (for example: what do you always buy in-store vs. online, how do you find a good deal, what ~special tricks~ do you use that most people dont know about, etc.)
• Tell us about a couple of products youre obsessed with
• Create a BuzzFeed.com/community profile, & create two shopping posts (if doing a roundup, no more than five products needed for each). We encourage you to check buzzfeed.com/shopping to see examples of BuzzFeed Shopping content. DO NOT PUBLISH YOUR POSTS. You must submit links to those two drafts in the box below.
• Attach a resume keep it to one page!

Note: BuzzFeed offers remote/flexible work (unless specified to be required to be in-person) & open to hiring remote candidates who are residents in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MD, MI, MS, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, & WA.  For non sales roles, we can also hire in AR, AZ, KS, MO, SC, & VT.

Life at BuzzFeed

We celebrate inclusion & are committed to equal-opportunity employment. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, & will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.

You can expect:

• A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions.
• Opportunities for personal & professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning Team, our Employee Resource Groups, & more.